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<p n="816">To the Right Honourable for <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n816-1">Thomas Hallifax</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ299">Knight</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ300">Lord mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo643">City of London</rs>
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And the Worshipfull the<lb></lb>
Aldermen his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City<lb></lb>
at their General Quarter Session of the Race Assembled</p>
<p n="817">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n817-1">Thomas Collin</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo644">Ball<lb></lb>
Alley</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo645">Lombard Street</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ301">Fishing Tackle maker</rs>
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<p n="818"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioners on the fifth day of May One Thomas<lb></lb>
Seven Hundred and Seventy four Took <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n818-233">William Joyceby</rs>
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Indenture as his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ302">Apprentice</rs>
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for the Term of Seven Years with whom he had the Sum of<lb></lb>
Five Pounds and five Shillings</p>
<p n="819">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n819-1">William Joyce</rs>
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hath during the Term of his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ303">Apprenticeship</rs>
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been Guilty of divers Misdemeanours (that is to say)<lb></lb>
Embezzling and Spoiling the Goods of your Petitioner and refusing to do<lb></lb>
the Necessary work of an Apprentice</p>
<p n="820">That on the fifteenth day of June One Thousand Seven<lb></lb>
Hundred and Seventy Six the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n820-1">William Joyce</rs>
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Absented himself<lb></lb>
from the Service of your Petitioner without the leave and consent of<lb></lb>
your Petitioner and is now absent since which time the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n820-992">William<lb></lb>
Joyce</rs>
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hath Associated with idle and disorderly Persons and common<lb></lb>
Pickpockets and hath been confirmed in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo646">Bridewell</rs>
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on <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo647">the Borough</rs>
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<p n="821">That your Petitioner therefore cannot with safety to<lb></lb>
himself take the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n821-1">William Joyce</rs>
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into his House by which means<lb></lb>
your Petitioner think himself Agrieved</p>
<p n="822">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly pray<lb></lb>
that he may be discharged from his Indenture<lb></lb>
to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n822-1">William Joyce</rs>
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</p>
<p n="823">And your Petitioner will ever pray</p>
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