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The Humble Petition and Complaint
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That on or about the fifty day of May 1789 Your
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Petitioner was bound an
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Deodatus Bye
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of the
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Parish of
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for the Term of Seven
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Years to learn the Art and Mystery of a Printer And that a
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Premium of Fifty pounds was paid with your Petitioner for
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that purpose and the said
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did by the Indenture
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of Apprenticeship thereupon Executed Covenant and Engage
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to teach and Instruct or Cause to be Taught and Instructed
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your Petitioner in such Act and to find Your Petitioner
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sufficient necessarys during such Apprenticeship as by the said
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Indenture which with the Counterpart thereof in now in this
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Possesion or Power of the said
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will when
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produced appear
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That it is a Matter as your Petitioner Submitts
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generally known and as well Understood that the Art and
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Mystery of a Printer Consists first in the Composing and
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putting of Words by Types or Letters into a case or Form which
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is called "Case Work" and such case or Four is afterwards
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placed in a Press or Engine for the Impression of the same
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on Paper or other material of the like Nature and that the
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doing to this is called 'Press work' The first namely Case work
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being a Work of Art and can only be Acquired by means of
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great Instruction and Application. The last namely press
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Work being a Work of little or us Art but of great Drudgery
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and Labour and the knowledge of it may be attained with
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very little Instruction
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