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<p n="485">set up until the Hours of Three or Four o'Clock every Morning to let<lb></lb>
in his Lodgers by which the Rest of the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50920_occ152">Apprentice</rs>
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is continually<lb></lb>
broken and himself rendered incapable of hearing so much of his<lb></lb>
Trade as her otherwise would do</p>
<p n="486">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50920_n486-1">Joseph Wheeler</rs>
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instead of providing your petitioners<lb></lb>
Son with good and sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging agreeable to<lb></lb>
his said Covenant compels him to not Bread and Cheese five days in<lb></lb>
or Wick at other Times his Bod consists of Porridge or Pot Liquor mixed<lb></lb>
with Potators and for a Month together has been obliged to drink Water<lb></lb>
only at his Meals. That the Bed upon which the said Apprentice<lb></lb>
lays consists of a Ticking with a few Hard Flocks there in and is<lb></lb>
otherways improper for a Boy to Sleep on</p>
<p n="487">That the said Joseph Wheeler has often without just cause or<lb></lb>
provocation beat and otherwise illtreated his said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50920_occ153">Apprentice</rs>
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of which<lb></lb>
and of the general conduct of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50920_n487-2">Joseph Wheeler</rs>
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your petitioner<lb></lb>
complained to the Magistrates at the Public Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50920_geo508">Hatton Garden</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
but as the Sum paid as a fee exceeded the Sums specified in the<lb></lb>
Acts for the regulation of Apprentices Your Petitioner could not<lb></lb>
obtain proper relief.</p>
<p n="488">Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays your<lb></lb>
Worships to take his Case into consideration<lb></lb>
and grant him such relief in the premises<lb></lb>
as to your Worships shall from proper</p>
<p n="489">And Your Petitioner Etc.</p>
<p n="490"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50920_n490-1">John Bentley</rs>
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