To the Worshipfull his Majestys Justices of the peace of
the County of Middlesex at their general Sessions of the peace
Assembled

The humble Petition of Anne Tippin< no role > Spinster Aged
Seventeen Years and upwards

Sheweth

That your Petitioner by Indenture bearing date the twentieth day of
January one thousand Seven hundred and forty three was bound an apprentice by
the then Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of St. Paul Covent garden
in the Liberty of Westminster and County of Middlesex to Robert Read< no role > of the Parish of
St. Giles in the Fields in the said County writing master and Anne< no role > his wife to serve from
the day of the date of the said Indenture untill your Petitioner should accomplish
her full age of twenty one yearsAnd the said Thomas Read< no role > did by the said
Indenture covenant for the said Anne his wife that she the said Anne should instruct
your Petitioner in the business of house wifry , and provide for her during the said term
sufficient and convenient meat, drink, apparrell, lodging, washing, and all other things
necessary

That your Petitioner has always believed and demeaned herself towards her said
Master and Mistress with the greatest duty, obedience, sebricty, fideblity and housely
but her said Master and Mistress have not only divers times abused your Petitioner by
viotenlly bealing, hicking and bruising her, but have also neglected to provide food and
raiment for her, inso much that your Petitioner hath for many months past been
almost naked from head to foot, and in such a poor forlorn and indigent condition, that if
your Petitioner had not been, supplied and relieved by other persons both with Cloaths and
Food, she must inevitably have starved and been quite naked

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly
prays that this Court would order her to be discharged from
her said Master and Mistress,and that her Indentures
may be delivered up Or that this Court would make such
other Order therein as shall be reasonable and just

And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc

Anne Tippin< no role >