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<p n="1085">To the Worshipfull Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1085-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ311">Knight</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ312">Chairman</rs>
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and the rest of his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ313">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo679">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="1086">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1086-1">Elizabeth Roberts</rs>
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</p>
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th</note>
<lb></lb>
That<obscured></obscured>
about the Twenty fifth Day of January One Thousand seven hundred<lb></lb>
and seventy three your Petitioner became bound Apprentice to one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1087-1">Robert Smith Symmonds</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo680">Parish of Saint Paul</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo681">Covent Garden</rs>
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in the liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo682">Westminster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ314">Coach Harness maker</rs>
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to serve for<lb></lb>
the<obscured></obscured>
full and and Tenn of two Years from the date thereof and in Consideration of the Sum of Twenty<lb></lb>
Pounds of lawfull Money of Great Britain paid by by your Petitioners Father <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1087-2">Edward Roberts</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Parish of Saint George <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo683">Hanover Square</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo684">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Have Dealer to the said<lb></lb>
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Robert Smith Symmonds the said Robert Smith Symmonds was to cause your Petitioner<lb></lb>
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taught and Instructed in the Art and Mystery of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ315">Mantua maker and Milliner</rs>
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and was to find<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Petitioner with sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging during the said Term</p>
<p n="1088">That your Petitioner in pursuance of said Indenture did serve <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1088-1">France Symmonds</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ316">Wife</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1088-2">Robert Smith Symmonds</rs>
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until the Thirty first<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Day of August meat following<lb></lb>
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Apprentice in the Business of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ317">Mantua maker and Milliner</rs>
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and on that Day the<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Robert Smith Symmonds and Frances his Wife did severally of use and yet do Afus<obscured></obscured>
eary<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
ther to Instruct your Petitioner in the said Business or to provide her with necessary meat and<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Lodging but directed her to quitt their dwelling house and return to her Parents and hath refused<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
return any part of the said Apprentice for and hath given out in Language that if the said<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
ard Roberts shall sue for it that he will lay in a Gaol before he will pay the same or any part<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
roof</p>
<p n="1089">Wherefore your Petitioner Hennbly prays<lb></lb>
for the reasons abovementioned that your Petitioner<lb></lb>
may be discharged from her said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ318">Apprenticeship</rs>
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And<lb></lb>
that the said Robert Smith Symmonds may referrd<lb></lb>
and pay back to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1089-2">Edward Roberts</rs>
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your Petitioner's<lb></lb>
Father so much and such part of the said Sum of Twenty<lb></lb>
pounds given with your Petitioner as a presaid for and towards<lb></lb>
the placing out your said Petitioner to another person of the<lb></lb>
same Business for the residue of the said Term of Years as<lb></lb>
to your Worships shall seem meet</p>
<p n="1090">And Your Petitioner shall over pray Etc</p>
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