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To the Worshipfull
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General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled
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The Petition of
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That by virtue of an Indenture bearing date the
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fourth of August 1784 your Petitioner became bound an
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William Stafford
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of
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Market Street Oxford Market
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to learn the Art and Mystery of
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Pronting for the Term of Seven Years
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That your Petitioners Father was a Clergyman in the
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County of Lincoln who died
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about five years last past
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and soon after the Sons of the Clergy Charitably be stowed the Sum
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of Twenty Pounds which sum was Paid as an Apprentice Fee to
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his said Master And an Agreement was then Entered into to pay him
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the further Sum of Five Pounds making in the whole the Sum of
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Twenty five Pounds
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That about 2 Months after he became so bound his
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Master beat him in a most Causl and unhuman manner without
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any Provocation that he did not then seek for redress on account
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of his friends residing in Lincolnshire a Considerable distance
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from the Metropolis
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That your Petitioner was not provided with Sufficient
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Meat and Drink as by the Covenant in the Indre his Master have
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Undertaken to do but on the Contrary Stinted him very much
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in his Victuals, and made him lay on a very dirty & unwholesome
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bed. on Sheets that were not Washd for Ten weeks together and
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frequently Employed to run on brisling Edwards for his Mistress
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That in the Month of February last your Petitioner was
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again very Severely beat Kicked and Knocked down by his said Master
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without any sort of reason or Colour for such treatment and about the
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and of March last his Master was Arrested & sent a Close
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Prisoner to
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during which time he has not been
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instructed
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by any Person in the Business nor had he any Work to set your
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Petitioner about, and wholly negelected your Petitioner in every respect
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not Providing Sufficient Victuals to Support Nature and on the 10th May
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last your Petitioner Complained of such ill usage his Master again
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beat him very Violently and Dawned him saying he had a right
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and would beat him when he pleased by which means your Petitioner
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lives a most Miserable
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and insupportable life
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