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October 1754

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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden for the
County of Middx at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the County aforesaid by adjournment
on Friday the twenty fifth day of October in the twenty eighth Year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the second King of Great Britain Etc before George Errington< no role >
Merry Teshmaker< no role > William Withers< no role > Bartholomew Hammond< no role > Esquires and others
their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in the County
aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds
committed in the same County.

Whereas James Blackstock< no role > exhibited his humble Petition unto this Court at this
present General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the County of Middx by
adjournment on Tuesday the twenty second day of October instant Settingforth That by
Indenture bearing date the fourteenth day of January which was in the Year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and fifty two Maynard Wolsoncroft was bound Apprentice to
the Petition for the Term of Sovereign to learn the Business of a Hair Merchant And
that the said Maynard Wolsoncroft< no role > during the time he continued with the Petitioner
behaved himself in a very unbecoming and disrespectfull manner in greatly neglecting the
Petitioners Business and refusing to obey his lawfull Commands and hath divers times
absented himself from the Petitioners Service associating himself with loose idle and
disorderly Persons about the Streets and in Lewd Houses sometimes touching away
from such Service for a Week together and hath frequently declared that he would not
live with the Petitioner And that on the fifteenth day of this instant October the said
Maynard Wolsoncroft again ran away from the Petitioners Service and on the seventeenth
day of the same Month was accidentally met with in the Street by the Petitioners other
Apprentice Joseph Seagrey< no role > who telling the said Maynard Wolsoncroft of his extreme bad
behavior the said Maynard declared that if the Petitioner dared to correct him he would
set Fire to the Petitioners House and burn down the same and all that was in it
whereupon the Petitioner obtained Warrant from a Magistrate upon which he was
apprehended and sent to Bridewell And that the Petitioner from the repeated Misbehaviour
of the said Maynard is assured he shall never be able to reap any Advantage from his
Service nor shall be able to teach him his Trade and is apprehensive that he will do the
Petitioner same very great Mischief in Case he shall be obliged to receive him again
And the Petitioner therefore humbly prayed this Court to take the Promisses into
Consideration and to vacate the said Indenture and to discharge him from the said Maynard
Wolsoncroft
< no role > or otherwise to grant him such Relief as to this Court should seem meet
Whereupon it was by an Order made by the said Court on the said twenty second day
of October instant Ordered that the said Maynard Wolsoncroft should have Notice
of the said Petition and that he and all Persons concerned should attend this Court on
this present Friday the twenty fifth day of October instant at ten of the Clock in the
Forenoon to hear and abide the Judgement and Determination of this Court touching




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