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<p n="841">To the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50891_occ195">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of Middx</p>
<p n="842">The Humble Petition and Complaint<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50891_n842-1">John Gee</rs>
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<p n="843"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That on or about the fifty day of May 1789 Your<lb></lb>
Petitioner was bound an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50891_occ196">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50891_n843-1">Deodatus Bye</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50891_geo380">Saint John Clerkenwell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50891_occ197">Printer</rs>
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for the Term of Seven<lb></lb>
Years to learn the Art and Mystery of a Printer And that a<lb></lb>
Premium of Fifty pounds was paid with your Petitioner for<lb></lb>
that purpose and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50891_n843-2">Deodatus Bye</rs>
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did by the Indenture<lb></lb>
of Apprenticeship thereupon Executed Covenant and Engage<lb></lb>
to teach and Instruct or Cause to be Taught and Instructed<lb></lb>
your Petitioner in such Act and to find Your Petitioner<lb></lb>
sufficient necessarys during such Apprenticeship as by the said<lb></lb>
Indenture which with the Counterpart thereof in now in this<lb></lb>
Possesion or Power of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50891_n843-3">Deodatus Bye</rs>
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will when<lb></lb>
produced appear</p>
<p n="844">That it is a Matter as your Petitioner Submitts<lb></lb>
generally known and as well Understood that the Art and<lb></lb>
Mystery of a Printer Consists first in the Composing and<lb></lb>
putting of Words by Types or Letters into a case or Form which<lb></lb>
is called "Case Work" and such case or Four is afterwards<lb></lb>
placed in a Press or Engine for the Impression of the same<lb></lb>
on Paper or other material of the like Nature and that the<lb></lb>
doing to this is called 'Press work' The first namely Case work<lb></lb>
being a Work of Art and can only be Acquired by means of<lb></lb>
great Instruction and Application. The last namely press<lb></lb>
Work being a Work of little or us Art but of great Drudgery<lb></lb>
and Labour and the knowledge of it may be attained with<lb></lb>
very little Instruction</p>
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