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<p n="37"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50797_geo34">Middlesex</rs>
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To the Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50797_n37-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50797_occ4">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50797_occ5">Chairman</rs>
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And the rest of the Justices in their<lb></lb>
General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="38">The Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50797_n38-1">John Myers</rs>
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<p n="39"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most humbly Sheweth</note>
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That by virtue of an Indenture bearing date the<lb></lb>
fourth of August 1784 your Petitioner became bound an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50797_occ6">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50797_n39-1">William Stafford</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50797_geo35">Market Street Oxford Market</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50797_geo36">Saint Marylebone</rs>
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to learn the Art and Mystery of<lb></lb>
Pronting for the Term of Seven Years</p>
<p n="40">That your Petitioners Father was a Clergyman in the<lb></lb>
County of Lincoln who died <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
about five years last past<lb></lb>
and soon after the Sons of the Clergy Charitably be stowed the Sum<lb></lb>
of Twenty Pounds which sum was Paid as an Apprentice Fee to<lb></lb>
his said Master And an Agreement was then Entered into to pay him<lb></lb>
the further Sum of Five Pounds making in the whole the Sum of<lb></lb>
Twenty five Pounds</p>
<p n="41">That about 2 Months after he became so bound his<lb></lb>
Master beat him in a most Causl and unhuman manner without<lb></lb>
any Provocation that he did not then seek for redress on account<lb></lb>
of his friends residing in Lincolnshire a Considerable distance<lb></lb>
from the Metropolis</p>
<p n="42">That your Petitioner was not provided with Sufficient<lb></lb>
Meat and Drink as by the Covenant in the Indre his Master have<lb></lb>
Undertaken to do but on the Contrary Stinted him very much<lb></lb>
in his Victuals, and made him lay on a very dirty & unwholesome<lb></lb>
bed. on Sheets that were not Washd for Ten weeks together and<lb></lb>
frequently Employed to run on brisling Edwards for his Mistress</p>
<p n="43">That in the Month of February last your Petitioner was<lb></lb>
again very Severely beat Kicked and Knocked down by his said Master<lb></lb>
without any sort of reason or Colour for such treatment and about the<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
and of March last his Master was Arrested & sent a Close<lb></lb>
Prisoner to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50797_geo37">the Fleet</rs>
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during which time he has not been<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
instructed<lb></lb>
by any Person in the Business nor had he any Work to set your<lb></lb>
Petitioner about, and wholly negelected your Petitioner in every respect<lb></lb>
not Providing Sufficient Victuals to Support Nature and on the 10th May<lb></lb>
last your Petitioner Complained of such ill usage his Master again<lb></lb>
beat him very Violently and Dawned him saying he had a right<lb></lb>
and would beat him when he pleased by which means your Petitioner<lb></lb>
lives a most Miserable<obscured></obscured>
and insupportable life</p>
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