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<p n="121"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo92">Middlesex</rs>
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To the Worshipful <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n121-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ42">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ43">Chairman</rs>
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& the rest of the Justices in their General Session of the Peace<lb></lb>
Assembled</p>
<p n="122">The Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n122-1">Michael Callikin</rs>
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<p n="123"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most humbly Sheweth</note>
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<p n="124">That by Virtue of an Indre bearing Date the 14th. of Octr. 1783 your Petitioner became<lb></lb>
Bound an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ44">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n124-1">Thomas Treadway</rs>
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then living at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo93">Knightsbridge</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo94">Parish of St.<lb></lb>
Margaret Westmr.</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ45">Basket maker</rs>
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, to learn the Art & Mystery of Basket making for the Term of<lb></lb>
Seven Years, & being then an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ46">Orphan</rs>
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, one<del> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n124-2">John Herby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n124-3">Mary Watts</rs>
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paid his sd. Master the Sum of Fifteen<lb></lb>
Guineas as an Apprentice Fee</p>
<p n="125">That your Petitioner on the Exccon of the sd. Indre went along with his sd. Master to his<lb></lb>
Lodgings at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo95">Knightsbridge</rs>
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where he had Two Rooms, wherein He, his Wife, her Mother, his<lb></lb>
Three Children, & three Nurse Children lived, & was Employed at a Cellar <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo96">Covent Garden</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
about a Month afterwards in Picking & making Bottoms of Baskets, & in mending Old Basket<lb></lb>
on 3 half Market Days in a Week, & had no Employmt: whatever the rest of the Week, his sd. Master<lb></lb>
having no Rods to Employ your Petitioner</p>
<p n="126">That your Petitioner's Master had not Work for your Petitioner during the Time your<lb></lb>
Petitioner lived with him, & was only periodically Employed in Picking Baskets & making Bottoms<lb></lb>
& was never Daughter Instructed his Business, or shewn how to make a Basket as by the said<lb></lb>
Indre he Covenanted to do</p>
<p n="127">That your Petitioner when he went to live with his sd. Master had 2 good Suits of Cloaths<lb></lb>
& 7 Shirts & otherwise well supplied with Shoes Stockings & other Necessaries, & his sd. Master had a<lb></lb>
Cellar in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo97">Covent Garden</rs>
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from one Mr. Twigg to Work in & having no Work to do there, & not having paid<lb></lb>
his Rent, Mrs. Twigg turned him out, & he afterwds. took a Cellar<del>at</del>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo98">Bow Street</rs>
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, & having very little business<lb></lb>
to do there, he left it in Augt. last, & took anor. Cellar from Mr. Best in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo99">Covent Garden</rs>
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<p n="128">That your Petitioner's Master for want of Employmt. in his own Business is frequently<lb></lb>
Employed in Cutting in Cutting Wood & carrying out Coals for <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n128-1">Edwd. Cole</rs>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ47">Brother in Law</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo100">Drury Lane</rs>
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, & Compelled<lb></lb>
your Petitioner to carry Coals very frequently from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo101">Drury Lane</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo102">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<p n="129">That your Petitioner during his sd. Apprentice ship with his sd. Master was Stinted in Victuals<lb></lb>
& was never Instructed in his Trade & had not sufficient Cloaths allowed him</p>
<p n="130">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Prays your Worships will be pleased to<lb></lb>
take his Case into your Conson, And Order him to be Discharged from his sd. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ48">Apprenticeship</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
And that part of the sd. Apprentice Fee may be returned, & Hogrant him such other Relief in the<lb></lb>
Premes as to your Worships shall seem meet</p>
<p n="131">And your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever Pray etc.</p>
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