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set up until the Hours of Three or Four o'Clock every Morning to let
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in his Lodgers by which the Rest of the said
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is continually
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broken and himself rendered incapable of hearing so much of his
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That the said
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Joseph Wheeler
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instead of providing your petitioners
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Son with good and sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging agreeable to
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his said Covenant compels him to not Bread and Cheese five days in
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or Wick at other Times his Bod consists of Porridge or Pot Liquor mixed
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with Potators and for a Month together has been obliged to drink Water
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only at his Meals. That the Bed upon which the said Apprentice
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lays consists of a Ticking with a few Hard Flocks there in and is
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otherways improper for a Boy to Sleep on
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That the said Joseph Wheeler has often without just cause or
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provocation beat and otherwise illtreated his said
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of which
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and of the general conduct of the said
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your petitioner
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complained to the Magistrates at the Public Office in
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but as the Sum paid as a fee exceeded the Sums specified in the
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Acts for the regulation of Apprentices Your Petitioner could not
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obtain proper relief.
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays your
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Worships to take his Case into consideration
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as to your Worships shall from proper
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And Your Petitioner Etc.
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