To the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middx

The Humble Petition and Complaint
of John Gee< no role >

Sheweth

That on or about the fifty day of May 1789 Your
Petitioner was bound an Apprentice to Deodatus Bye< no role > of the
Parish of Saint John Clerkenwell Printer for the Term of Seven
Years to learn the Art and Mystery of a Printer And that a
Premium of Fifty pounds was paid with your Petitioner for
that purpose and the said Deodatus Bye< no role > did by the Indenture
of Apprenticeship thereupon Executed Covenant and Engage
to teach and Instruct or Cause to be Taught and Instructed
your Petitioner in such Act and to find Your Petitioner
sufficient necessarys during such Apprenticeship as by the said
Indenture which with the Counterpart thereof in now in this
Possesion or Power of the said Deodatus Bye< no role > will when
produced appear

That it is a Matter as your Petitioner Submitts
generally known and as well Understood that the Art and
Mystery of a Printer Consists first in the Composing and
putting of Words by Types or Letters into a case or Form which
is called "Case Work" and such case or Four is afterwards
placed in a Press or Engine for the Impression of the same
on Paper or other material of the like Nature and that the
doing to this is called 'Press work' The first namely Case work
being a Work of Art and can only be Acquired by means of
great Instruction and Application. The last namely press
Work being a Work of little or us Art but of great Drudgery
and Labour and the knowledge of it may be attained with
very little Instruction