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At the GeneralSession of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden for the County<lb></lb>
of Middx at Hicks Hall in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50417_geo1">Saint John Street</rs>
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in the County aforesaid by adjournment on Friday the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50417_date2">twenty third day of February in the twenty sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second</rs>
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King of Great Britain etc before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50417_n5-1">Luke Robinson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50417_n5-2">Richard Chamberlayne</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50417_n5-3">John Dekewer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50417_n5-4">Walter<lb></lb>
Berry</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50417_occ1">Esquires</rs>
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and other their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to Keep the Peace in the<lb></lb>
County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed<lb></lb>
in the same County.</p>
<p n="6">Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50417_n6-3">John Edleston</rs>
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Exhibited his humble Petition unto this Court at this present General<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace holden for the County of Middx by adjournment on Tuesday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50417_date3">twentieth day of<lb></lb>
February instant</rs>
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Setting forth That the Petitioner on the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50417_date4">eleventh day of December in the Year of<lb></lb>
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and forty six</rs>
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was bound an Apprentice by Indenture unto<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50417_n6-1">John Tudway</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50417_geo2"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50417_geo3">Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50417_geo4">County of Middx</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50417_occ2">Tin Plate Worker</rs>
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for the Space of Seven Years to learn his Art or Trade, in Consideration of which there was paid unto<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50417_n6-2">John Tudway</rs>
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the Sum of fifteen pounds And that about three Weeks after the Petitioner<lb></lb>
had entred upon his said Apprenticeship his said Master began to treat him very cruelly by<lb></lb>
Horse whipping knocking him down with his Fist and striking him with other Blunt Weapons that<lb></lb>
first came to his Hand in so much that the Petitioner was seldom free from Hurts and Bruises<lb></lb>
And that the Petitioner on account of these Injuries applied himself to a Justice of the Peace for<lb></lb>
his Warrant against his said Master and on his being convended before the Magistrate on promise of<lb></lb>
better Behavior for the future towards the Petitioner the same was discharged and when the said<lb></lb>
Tudway came Home he declared to the Petitioner that he had done the worst Days work he had ever<lb></lb>
done in his Life and that if he could not punish the Petitioner one way he would the other by letting<lb></lb>
him go like a Black Guard in Rags before he should have any better, on which amount the<lb></lb>
Petitioner was in tattered Condition notwithstanding his said Master was obliged by the said<lb></lb>
Indenture to provide and find for him all convenient and necessary Apparel during the said Term<lb></lb>
of seven Years And that the Hours of working at the Petitioners said Trade are from Six in the<lb></lb>
Morning till Nine at Night and when the Petitioner had left of Work at the Hours last mentioned and<lb></lb>
he having served almost four Years of his time he sometimes went to see his Friends or Neighbours<lb></lb>
with whom he might remain about an Hour and when he came Home about Ten of the Clock his<lb></lb>
said Master ordered his Family not to let him into his House and to prevent the same kept the Key<lb></lb>
of the Street Door in his own Possession so that the Petitioner hath been obliged to walk the Streets<lb></lb>
all Night, for which reason the Petitioner was on the Complaint of his Master committed to the<lb></lb>
House of Correction where he remained for the Space of eight Weeks and upwards And that the<lb></lb>
Petitioner being tired out with such ill treatment did in the Month of June last outer himself as a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50417_occ3">Sailor</rs>
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on board one of the King's Ships of War where after he had been some time his Friends<lb></lb>
prevailed on him to return to his said Master which he accordingly did but his said Master<lb></lb>
absolutely refused to receive or let the Petitioner come into his House to work at his Trade nor<lb></lb>
will be either consent to turn the Petitioner over to another Master or give him up his Indenture<lb></lb>
to be cancelled so that the Petitioner must unavoidably have been a Vagrant about the Street for<lb></lb>
Six Months past and upwards unless he had been received and supported by his Friends And the<lb></lb>
Petitioner therefore humbly prayed this Court that they would be pleased to take the premisses into<lb></lb>
their Consideration and make such Order touching his said Masters receiving him into his said<lb></lb>
Service for the Remainder of the said Term of Seven Years to learn his said Trade or turn the<lb></lb>
Petitioner over to some other Master for that purpose and refund the said fifteen pounds so given with the Petitioner as aforesaid or<lb></lb>
such part thereof as to this Court in their Discretion should seem meet Whereupon it was by</p>
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