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To the Worshipful His Majesty's Justices assembled at the
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Quarter
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General Sessions of the Peace begun
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and holden the 30th: day of November 1795 in and for the
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The humble Petition of
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William Chamberlayne
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of
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Aylesbury
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in the said County
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Surgeon
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Apothecary
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Sheweth
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That on or about the 7th: day of September 1793
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Thomas Hadley Swain
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(Son of the
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Reverend
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John Hadley Swain
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of East Street
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Red Lion Square
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Clerk) was bound
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Apprentice
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to your Petr.
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That the said Apprentice instead of demeaning and conducting himself to your Petr.
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and to his Patients, and to his Business according to the Duties of his Station, has neglected the Shop and
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Business of your Petitioner, denied your Petitioner when at home unto his Patients; Refused to tell where
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your Petitioner was to be found when he well knew it; Whereby your Petitioner lost the Opportunity and
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Emoluments of being present at One Labour (if not more) and has Otherwise been greatly Inferred in his
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Practice.
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That besides behaving with Rudeness to the Patients of your Petitioner the said
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Apprentice has sometimes neglected
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refused
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to make up Medicines when directed, and at Others made them up
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contrary to the directions given, and at Others put false Labels to the Medicines made up which
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Conduct hath occasioned great Confusion, and hath done irreperable Injury to your Petitioners
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That the said Apprentice when spoken to by your Petitioner on such Transactions
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Instead of shewing Contrition, or Promising Amendment, hath treated your Petitioner with most
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Illiberal Abuse and declared that he would Continue to Injure your Petitioner in his Practise, and would
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put One Shilling an hour out of his Pocket; and that he would render the Lises of your Petr. and his
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Wife Uncomfortable Etc.
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That the said
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Apprentice
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(in a Letter to One of his Acquaintance) hath threatned
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to practise upon your Petitioner "a dark and severe Revenge"- Insomuch that your Petitioner conceives
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not only his Property but his Life to be in danger from the Malicious Disposition of his Apprentice.
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly hopes that your Worships (having taken
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the Premises into Consideration) will be pleased to Order that the said
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of your Petitioner may be discharged.
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And your Petitioner shall Ever pray Etc
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