To the Right Honrble Sr Samuel Stanier< no role > Knt . Lord Major
of the City of London and to the Rt Worpll the Rest of her Maties
Justices of the Peace within the same city in the Generall Quarter
Sessions Assembled

The humble petition of Thomas Griffith< no role >

Sheweth

That one Sarah Ball< no role > a poor Girl aged about Thirteen years belonging to the
parish of allhallows on the Wall London was on the 5th Day of august last
past by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the said parish and
also by and with the consent to two of her Majesties Justices of the peace
within this city set forth and bound apprentice to your Petitioner to learn
the Art of clear straching and cleaning of silk and Bibbons and to serve
your petitioner untill she should Attain the age of 21 years according
to the statute in that case made and provided By within Indenture your
petitioners is bound to indempnify and save Harmless the said parish and
parishioners from all charges whatsoever upon the account of the said
Apprentice as by the same Inenture of Apprenticeship may more fully
appeare but your position having found his said apprentice to be a loose
idle she [..] and disorderly Girl and upon Examination of the said Girl having
confessed that she was debanished by a man who gave her the foul disease
before your petitioner had taken her to his Apprentice which distemper hall
so increased upon her and is now become so loath some that she is altogether
unfitt for your peitioner service and that your petitioner apprentice does
not her Duty to your petitioner her Master as by the Covenants of he
Apprenticeship She ought to doe And your Petitoner being ignorant of the
bad condition of his Apprenticeshipand having been at charge to maintain
sher and being but a poor man applyed himself to the churchwarden of
allhallows to provide for her and get her meod of her distemper But they
Refuse so to do

Wherefore your petitioner humbly prays this Honrble court would
order the churchwarden & Overseers of the poor of the said parish
of Allhallows to appear before this court to shew cause why they
should not provide for the said Sara Ball< no role > and that your petitioner
may be discharged from his said Apprentice and the said Indenture
cancelead

And Yor. Petioner Shall ever Pray Etc.