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To the Worshipfull Sir
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at their General
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Quarter Sessions of the Peace Assembled
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The Humble Petition of
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That
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about the Twenty fifth Day of January One Thousand seven hundred
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and seventy three your Petitioner became bound Apprentice to one
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Robert Smith Symmonds
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to serve for
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the
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full and and Tenn of two Years from the date thereof and in Consideration of the Sum of Twenty
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Pounds of lawfull Money of Great Britain paid by by your Petitioners Father
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Edward Roberts
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Have Dealer to the said
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Robert Smith Symmonds the said Robert Smith Symmonds was to cause your Petitioner
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taught and Instructed in the Art and Mystery of a
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and was to find
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Petitioner with sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging during the said Term
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That your Petitioner in pursuance of said Indenture did serve
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France Symmonds
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until the Thirty first
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Day of August meat following
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Apprentice in the Business of a
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and on that Day the
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Robert Smith Symmonds and Frances his Wife did severally of use and yet do Afus
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eary
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ther to Instruct your Petitioner in the said Business or to provide her with necessary meat and
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Lodging but directed her to quitt their dwelling house and return to her Parents and hath refused
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return any part of the said Apprentice for and hath given out in Language that if the said
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ard Roberts shall sue for it that he will lay in a Gaol before he will pay the same or any part
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roof
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Wherefore your Petitioner Hennbly prays
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for the reasons abovementioned that your Petitioner
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may be discharged from her said
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Apprenticeship
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And
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that the said Robert Smith Symmonds may referrd
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and pay back to the said
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your Petitioner's
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Father so much and such part of the said Sum of Twenty
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pounds given with your Petitioner as a presaid for and towards
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the placing out your said Petitioner to another person of the
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same Business for the residue of the said Term of Years as
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to your Worships shall seem meet
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And Your Petitioner shall over pray Etc
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