Middx ss:

Ad General Quarterial Session Pacis Din Regis
tent & Com Middx apud Hicks hall in St. John Street
in Com Prd. P adjorn die Veneris Scilt vicesicno scdo
die Aprilis anno regin Din Georgy nunc Regis
Magne Britannie Etc duodecimo teram Daniel
Dolins< no role > Mil Johe Fuller< no role > Gwin Vaughan< no role > Henrico
Lowth< no role > Aris & al Socys Sins Justic dci Din Regis
ad pacem in Com Ped. couser and necnon ad divers
felow tusgr & al malefacta in eadem Com P Petrat
audient & terminant assign Etc

Whereas William Whitlaw< no role > exhibited his humble
peticon Unto this Court at this present Generall
Quarter Sessions of the peace holden for this County
by adjorumt. on Tuesday the nineteenth day of April
instant Setting forth that the Petr. by his Indenture of
apprenticehood beareing date the fifth day of July
anno Din one thousand Seven hundred & twenty one
became an Apprentice to Walter Hood< no role > of the Parish
of St. Clement Danes in the said County Peruke maker
for the terme of Seven yeares comeuceing from the
date of the Said Indenture, And that the Petrs. Master
by his blows & hard usages hath almost brought the
Petr. to deaths door, Neither is he capable of instructing
him his trade, To answer all which the Petrs. Sd. Master
Stands bound by Recognizance for his appearance in this
Court the present Sessions, And the Petr therefore Praying
his Said Master might attend this Court [..] some day
this Sessions to shew cause why he Should not be
discharged from his apprenticehood to the Sd. Walter
Hood< no role > , It was Ordered by this Court that the said Walter
Hood< no role > should have notice of the Said peticon and that
he Should attend this Court on this present Friday the
twenty second day of May instant to shew cause why the
said William Whitlaw< no role > Should not be discharged from
his apprenticehood to the Said Walter Hood< no role > , Now upon
heareing of what was alledged by the Said William