To Thomas Lane< no role >
Esqr
. Chairman
& the rest
of His Majesties Justices of the peace
at the General
Quarter Sessions of the peace of our Sovereign Lord the
King now holden for the County of Middlesex
.
The humble petition of Sarah Haffell< no role >
Spinster
.
Humble Sheweth
That yr. petr. by pretended Indentures of Apprentiship
bearing Date the fourteenth Day of March in the year of our Lord
1728. then aged ten years, was by the Name of
Sarah Hyfeild< no role >
put
Apprentice by the Church Wardens & Overseers of the parish of St.
Giles in the Fields
in the sd. County of Middlesex
to One
Lewis Charles
Inshan< no role >
by the Name of
Charles Inshan< no role >
of the parish of St. Ann
Westmr
in the sd. County until she arrived at the Age of Twenty One or
Day of Marriage.
That by the sd. pretended Indentures the sd. Charles Inshan
covenanted to cause yr. petr. to be lawfully taught & instructed in
Housewifry. And that he should allow her during her Servitude meet
competent & sufficient Meat Drink Apparel Lodging & washing & all
other Things necessary & fit for Apprentice.
That yr. petr. has faithfully served the sd. Lewis Charles
Inshan ever since the Date of the sd. pretended Indentures, who has
not found nor allowed yr. petr .meet sufficient Meat Dink Apparel
Lodging & washing & other Necessaries as the sd. Lewis Charles Inshan in & by the
sd. pretended Indentures covenanted to do.
That yr. petr. has also been cruelly & immercifully beaten
& ill-treated by the sd. Lewis Charles Inshan & his Wife without any
just Provocation given to them or either of them by yr. petr.
Your petr. therefore humbly mays yr.
Worships That she may be discharged from her
sd. pretended Apprentiship Or have such further
& other Reliefe as to yr. Worships shall seem
meet.
And yr. petr. shall ever pray Etc.
her
Sarah [mark] Haffell< no role >
Mark