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