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<p n="169">To the worshipful his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50849_occ40">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50849_geo109">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="170">The humble Petition<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50849_n170-1">Henry Stamps</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50849_occ41">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50849_n170-2">John<lb></lb>
Whitehouse</rs>
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late of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50849_geo110">Stacey Street</rs>
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in the <lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50849_geo111">Saint Giles in the fields</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50849_occ42">Plater<lb></lb>
and Coach Founder</rs>
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but now a Prisoner<lb></lb>
in the Kings Bench Prison</p>
<p n="171"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
</p>
<p n="172">That by Indenture bearing Date on or about the 27th.<lb></lb>
day of August 1783 your Petitioner did put himself Apprentice<lb></lb>
to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50849_n172-1">John Whitehouse</rs>
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who then lived at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50849_geo112">Wednesbury</rs>
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in the <lb></lb>
County of Stafford for the Term of 7 Years to learn the Art of a <lb></lb>
Plater and Coach founder And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50849_n172-2">John Whitehouse</rs>
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(for and<lb></lb>
in Consideration of the Sum of £10. Premium given him with your<lb></lb>
Petitioner and of the further sum of £8. paid to him by your<lb></lb>
Petitioners Brother <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50849_n172-3">George Stamps</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50849_geo113">Queen Street</rs>
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7 Dials Plater and<lb></lb>
Coach Founder) did<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Covenant to teach and<lb></lb>
Instruct or cause to be Taught and Instructed your Petitioner in the said<lb></lb>
Art or Aystery of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50849_occ43">Plater and Coach Founder</rs>
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in the best Way and<lb></lb>
Manner that he could and by a subsequent Agreement Covenanted to find him competent Cloaths Sheat<lb></lb>
Drink Lodging and all other Necessaries fit for an Apprentice</p>
<p n="173">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50849_n173-1">John Whitehouse</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50849_n173-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
continued in Staffordshire<lb></lb>
about 4 Years when he removed to London and carried on his<lb></lb>
Business in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50849_geo114">Stacy Street</rs>
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aforesaid untill about the month of<lb></lb>
June last when being much in Debt he was Arrested and soon<lb></lb>
afterwards was rendered to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50849_geo115">Kings Bench Prison</rs>
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in discharge of<lb></lb>
his Bail where he has remained ever since and some ago a Commission<lb></lb>
of Bankrupt was awarded and issued against him and he was<lb></lb>
thereupon declared a Bankrupt,</p>
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