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To the Worshipful his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50847_occ199">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50847_geo335">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions of the Peace holden for the said County in the<lb></lb>
Month of July One Thousand Seven Hundered and Eighty<lb></lb>
Nine - Assembled</p>
<p n="1086">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50847_n1086-1">Charles Halsted</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50847_n1086-2">John Godfrey</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50847_geo336">Saint James Westminster</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50847_geo337">County of Middlesex</rs>
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That he was bound an apprentice by Indenture<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50847_n1087-1">John Godfrey</rs>
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of the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50847_geo338">Saint James Westminster</rs>
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aforesaid <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50847_geo339">Haberdasher</rs>
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And that he she said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50847_n1087-2">John<lb></lb>
Godfrey</rs>
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hath misused and ill created him the said<lb></lb>
Apprentice And Particularly That he has several times<lb></lb>
struck and kicked the petitioner and otherwise cruelly<lb></lb>
treated him upon the most slight occasions And that<lb></lb>
one sunday when the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50847_n1087-3">John Godfrey</rs>
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was going into<lb></lb>
the County he desired the said Petitioner to take a parell<lb></lb>
into the City in order to prevent him the petitioner from<lb></lb>
going to see his Friends on that Day That where the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50847_n1087-4">John Godfrey</rs>
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had set off for the County the petitioner<lb></lb>
immediately took the said parcel to the place directed<lb></lb>
by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50847_n1087-5">John Godfrey</rs>
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and returned Back in our Hou<obscured></obscured>
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and a Greater when he former the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50847_n1087-6">John Godfrey</rs>
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had<lb></lb>
returned who immediately came up to him the petitioner<lb></lb>
and said God Damn you you sen of a Bitch where have<lb></lb>
you been and immediately struck the petitioner several<lb></lb>
Times over the Body and Face<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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and Cut the</p>
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