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<p n="92"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo61">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
To the Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n92-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ25">Esquire</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ26">Chairman</rs>
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and the rest of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ27">Magistrates</rs>
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in their<lb></lb>
General Session Assembled.</p>
<p n="93">The Humble Petition and appeal<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n93-1">Charles John Cope</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ28">apprentice</rs>
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to Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n93-2">Thomas Oliver</rs>
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late of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo62">Hitchin</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo63">County<lb></lb>
of Herts</rs>
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but now of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo64">Brook Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo65">Hanover Square</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo66">County of Middlesx</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ29">Clock and Watchmaker</rs>
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<p n="94"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
</p>
<p n="95">That your Petitioner was bound apprentice by an<lb></lb>
Indenture bearing date the fourteenth day of January<lb></lb>
1780. To <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n95-1">Thomas Oliver</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo67">Hitchin</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo68">County of Herts</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the Term of Seven Years to learn the Art of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ30">Clock<lb></lb>
and Watch maker</rs>
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and your Petitioners Master Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n95-2">Thos.<lb></lb>
Oliver</rs>
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received with your Petitioner and Apprentice fee<lb></lb>
or Premirim of Twenty two Pounds Eleven Shillings<lb></lb>
and Six Pence.</p>
<p n="96">That about Midsummer 1783 your Petitioners Master<lb></lb>
Removed from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo69">Hitchin</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo70">Herts</rs>
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aforesaid and took a<lb></lb>
Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo71">New Bond Street</rs>
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and from thence removed into<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo72">little Brook Street</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50807_geo72" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo73">Hanover Square</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50807_geo73" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in the<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo74">Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
George Hanover Square</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo75">County of Middlesex</rs>
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where<lb></lb>
he now Carries on the Business of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ31">Silver Smith</rs>
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but Seldom<lb></lb>
or ever carries on the Clock and watch making business<lb></lb>
in his own house or Shop.</p>
<p n="97">That your Petitioner hath been with his said<lb></lb>
Master from the date of the Indenture to the Present time, and<lb></lb>
having only thirteen Months now to Serve under the said<lb></lb>
Indenture and from his Present incapacity in the Business<lb></lb>
he was bound to his said Master to learn he shall not be<lb></lb>
able to gain a livelihood at the Expiration of his said<lb></lb>
Indenture by which he was bound as aforesaid to the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n97-1">Thomas Oliver</rs>
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</p>
<p n="98">That your Petitioner has been Constantly employ'd<lb></lb>
and Ordered to Clean the Plate he Manufactors for his</p>
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