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To the Right Honourable for
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And the Worshipfull the
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Aldermen his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City
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at their General Quarter Session of the Race Assembled
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The Humble Petition of
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Thomas Collin
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That your Petitioners on the fifth day of May One Thomas
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Seven Hundred and Seventy four Took
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William Joyceby
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Indenture as his
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Apprentice
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for the Term of Seven Years with whom he had the Sum of
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Five Pounds and five Shillings
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That the said
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William Joyce
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Apprenticeship
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been Guilty of divers Misdemeanours (that is to say)
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Embezzling and Spoiling the Goods of your Petitioner and refusing to do
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the Necessary work of an Apprentice
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That on the fifteenth day of June One Thousand Seven
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Hundred and Seventy Six the said
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William Joyce
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Absented himself
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from the Service of your Petitioner without the leave and consent of
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your Petitioner and is now absent since which time the said
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William
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Joyce
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hath Associated with idle and disorderly Persons and common
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Pickpockets and hath been confirmed in the
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Bridewell
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on
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the Borough
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That your Petitioner therefore cannot with safety to
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himself take the said
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William Joyce
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into his House by which means
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your Petitioner think himself Agrieved
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly pray
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that he may be discharged from his Indenture
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to the said
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And your Petitioner will ever pray
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