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<p n="183">To the Worshipful his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50303_occ42">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50303_geo104">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at their General Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
Assembled</p>
<p n="184">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50303_n184-1">Stephen<lb></lb>
Wicks</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50303_occ43">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50303_n184-2">Benjamin Warner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50303_geo105">Saint. Mary White Chapple</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50303_occ44">Butcher</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="185"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner on the Seventh day of November<lb></lb>
in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred<lb></lb>
and twenty Eight became bound an Apprentice unto<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50303_n185-1">Edwd. Tomkins</rs>
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of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50303_geo106">parish of Saint Mary White<lb></lb>
Chapple</rs>
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in the County aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50303_occ45">Butcher</rs>
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. And on<lb></lb>
the fourteenth day of September In the Year of our Lord One<lb></lb>
Thousand Seven hundred and Thirty One was Turned<lb></lb>
over unto the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50303_n185-3">Benjamin Warner</rs>
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of the Parish and<lb></lb>
County aforesaid Butcher with him to serve during<lb></lb>
the remainder time of has said Apprenticehood from<lb></lb>
the date of the said Indenture Relation being there<lb></lb>
unto had may more fully appear during which time the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50303_n185-4">Benjamin Warner</rs>
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was and is to Teach and Instruct the<lb></lb>
said Stephen Wicks the Trade Art and Mistery of a<lb></lb>
Butcher and likewise by said Indenture was to provide<lb></lb>
for his said Apprentice good and Sufficient wearing<lb></lb>
Apparel during the said Term, But the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50303_n185-5">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Warner</rs>
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hath refused and still doth refuse to provide for<lb></lb>
his said Apprentice any Manner of Wearing Apparel<lb></lb>
So that your Petitioner is quite naked and diver stimes<lb></lb>
your Petitioner is very refused beat and wounded in<lb></lb>
a Barbarus manner.</p>
<p n="186">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Beggs that<lb></lb>
your Worshipps may be pleased to order that he be<lb></lb>
wholy Discharged from his sd. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50303_occ46">Apprenticehood</rs>
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or<lb></lb>
Such otherwise as your Worshipps shall seem meet</p>
<p n="187">And your Petitioner shall ever pray and so forth</p>
<p n="188"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50303_n188-1">Stephen Wicks</rs>
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