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in their
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General Session Assembled.
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The Humble Petition and appeal
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Charles John Cope
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apprentice
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to Mr.
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Thomas Oliver
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Hitchin
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County
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of Herts
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Clock and Watchmaker
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner was bound apprentice by an
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Indenture bearing date the fourteenth day of January
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1780. To
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Thomas Oliver
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of
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Hitchin
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in the
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for the Term of Seven Years to learn the Art of a
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Clock
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and your Petitioners Master Mr.
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Thos.
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Oliver
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received with your Petitioner and Apprentice fee
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or Premirim of Twenty two Pounds Eleven Shillings
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and Six Pence.
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That about Midsummer 1783 your Petitioners Master
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Removed from
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Shop in
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New Bond Street
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and from thence removed into
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little Brook Street
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where
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he now Carries on the Business of a
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Silver Smith
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but Seldom
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or ever carries on the Clock and watch making business
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in his own house or Shop.
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That your Petitioner hath been with his said
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Master from the date of the Indenture to the Present time, and
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having only thirteen Months now to Serve under the said
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Indenture and from his Present incapacity in the Business
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he was bound to his said Master to learn he shall not be
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able to gain a livelihood at the Expiration of his said
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Indenture by which he was bound as aforesaid to the said
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Thomas Oliver
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That your Petitioner has been Constantly employ'd
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and Ordered to Clean the Plate he Manufactors for his
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