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Apprentice And Particularly That he has several times
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struck and kicked the petitioner and otherwise cruelly
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treated him upon the most slight occasions And that
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one sunday when the said
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was going into
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the County he desired the said Petitioner to take a parell
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into the City in order to prevent him the petitioner from
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returned who immediately came up to him the petitioner
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you been and immediately struck the petitioner several
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