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<p n="300">To the Worshipfull the Bench of Justices at the Sessions<lb></lb>
held at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50319_geo150">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50319_geo151">St. John Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50319_geo152">Middx</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="301">The humble Peticon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50319_n301-1">James Topsell</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50319_occ63">Apprentice</rs>
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</p>
<p n="302"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petr. was bound <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50319_occ64">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50319_n302-1">Edward<lb></lb>
Hall</rs>
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of the pish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50319_geo153">St George the Maetys</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50319_geo154">Middx</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50319_geo154" type="placeName" value="Middx"></interp>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50319_occ65">Taylor</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the Term of Eight Yeares by Indenture beareing date the fourteenth day<lb></lb>
of October 1735. that his Parents gave five Guyneas with<lb></lb>
him to his Said Master that he Served his Master from<lb></lb>
Said nine till about two Months Since (altho his Master had<lb></lb>
like bussness for him) at which time his Said Master was<lb></lb>
Arrested And made a prisoner in the Marshalsea Goale<lb></lb>
at Southwarke where he Still remaines And is likely<lb></lb>
so to do.</p>
<p n="303">That all his Goods were Seized for <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50319_occ66">Knt</rs>
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& appraisd<lb></lb>
Sold and his Wife & familly Turned out of Doares<lb></lb>
and She went to her freinds in the County and left your<lb></lb>
pettr. the very Young & helpless to provide for himselfe<lb></lb>
without any Manner of Sustenance & not a place to<lb></lb>
Harbour him,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
being almost Starved with Hunger<lb></lb>
& Cold Applyed himselfe to are taken he had in Tocone who<lb></lb>
Supported him otherwise he might have perished for want.</p>
<p n="304">That your petr dureing the time he lived with his Master<lb></lb>
had not Necessaryes to Support him as an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50319_occ67">Apprentice</rs>
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<lb></lb>
nor did his Master instruct him in his trade by reason he<lb></lb>
had very litle bussness to do so that your petr. must loose<lb></lb>
the benefitt of learneing his trade if not releived,</p>
<p n="305">Your Petr therefore humbly prays Your Worshipps<lb></lb>
to take premisses into Consideration and either to<lb></lb>
Turne him over to asult. Master or discharge him<lb></lb>
and he will pray &c.</p>
<p n="306"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50319_n306-1">James Topsell</rs>
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