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<p n="135">To the Worshipfull Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n135-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50721_occ20">Knight</rs>
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and the<lb></lb>
rest of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50721_occ21">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo115">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in their General Quarter Session of the Peace assembled</p>
<p n="136">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n136-1">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Reeves</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo116">Parish of Harrow</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo117">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50721_occ22">Widow</rs>
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on behalf of her Son <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n136-2">Robert<lb></lb>
Reeves</rs>
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<p n="137"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That by Indenture of Apprenticeship bearing date the<lb></lb>
28th. day of August 1777 the said Robert was by your Petitioners<lb></lb>
put out and bound an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50721_occ23">apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n137-2">Joseph Trokes</rs>
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of the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo118">Saint James Westminster</rs>
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in the said County of Middx Coach Painter<lb></lb>
to learn his Art and with him after the Manner of an apprentice<lb></lb>
to serve from the date there of unto the full End and Term of Seven<lb></lb>
Years in Consideration of the Sum of Fifty Two Pounds Ten Shillings<lb></lb>
to him in hand Paid by Your Petitioner and that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n137-3">Robert<lb></lb>
Reeves</rs>
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was not to Grind Colours nor to Colour Carriages during the said<lb></lb>
Term</p>
<p n="138">That after the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n138-1">Robert Reeves</rs>
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had served about<lb></lb>
a Year of his time he obtained leave of his said Master to Visit Your<lb></lb>
Petitioner and upon application made by Your Petitioner for his<lb></lb>
Return the Wife of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n138-2">Joseph Trokes</rs>
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informed Your Petitioner<lb></lb>
that her Husbands Circumstances were rather embarrassed wished<lb></lb>
she would keep him some little time longer for that they had<lb></lb>
no Business wherein they Could Employ him or that she would<lb></lb>
Keep him until their affairs were settled or something to the<lb></lb>
like Effect</p>
<p n="139">That Your Petitioner has a Considerable time<lb></lb>
kept her Son unemployed expecting that he would be recalled<lb></lb>
to his duty and has at different times made application to his<lb></lb>
said Master to receive him but always received some evasive<lb></lb>
answer that his affairs were not or would be Settled very Soon</p>
<p n="140">Your Petitioner therefore conceiving that it<lb></lb>
is not in the Power of<del>his</del>
the said Master to employ and<lb></lb>
Instruct her Son in the said Art and Majesty of a<lb></lb>
Coach Painter Therefore humbly Prays that Your<lb></lb>
Worships would be Pleased to discharge the said-<lb></lb>
apprentice from his said appenticeship and that there may be<lb></lb>
so much money returned to Your Petitioner as to Your worships that<lb></lb>
seem meet & Yr Petitioner will ever Pray Etc</p>
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