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Per Week and frequently was obliged to go on the Lords Day to same of then
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to get Payment And your Petitioner is very deficient in his Business not
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having been put to or learnt any thing of the Cabinet or Upholstery Businesses
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and has only been put to making Deal Tables
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That your Petitioner having nothing to do and having refused to-
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carry things off the Premises clandestinely was very much abused by the
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said
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Andrew Gilchrist
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who is apt to get very often in Liquor was-
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advised by Mr Squib the Anctioner that of your Petitioner had any Friends to
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go to them and not continue with such people And Your Petitioner about the
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17th Day of December last went to his Friends where he still is
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That your Petitioner is in great hopes he an procure a person in the said
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Businesses to take your Petitioner for the remainder of the said Term but not
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without some Money
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That your Petitioners Brother has often applied to the said
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Andrew
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Glichrist
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to discharge Your Petitioner or to Turn your Petitioner over but he
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refused and insisted Your Petitioner should bring his Chest of Tools which
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Your Petitioner Purchased with his own Money to the
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Fleat Prison
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to Work there
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as the said
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Andrew Gilchrist
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said they covid serve them both to Work with he
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not h
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any Tools of his own Vizt Your Petitioners Friends advised your
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Petitioner not to do so the said
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not hearing any Business to do
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And as Your Petitioner humbly Conceives a very improper place for Your Petitioner
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to Work or be in
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That Your Petitioner hath served the said
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Andrew Gilchrist
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faithfully and honestly from the said 17th day of November 1789 to the 17th.
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day of December last Except about 6 Weeks Your Petitioner having broke
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a Blood Vessel when Your Petitioner went to his Mother thinking to be taken
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more are of and was at your Petitioners Mother Expences.
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays
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Your Worships to discharge Your Petitioner from his
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said
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Apprenticeship
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or that the said
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may Assign over Your Petitioner to another Person
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of the same Trade for the Remainder of the said
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Term of Seven years and that he refund so much
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and such part of the said Sum of 15 Guineas the
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Money so given with Your Petitioner as the
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