Middx

At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for the
County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the said County
(by Adjournment) On Saturday the Seventeenth day of May in the Sixth year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain
etc Before Saunders Welch< no role > Bartholomew Hammond< no role > John Spencer< no role > Colepeper
Benjamin Cowley< no role > , Esquires 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 Misdemeanours committed in the
same County.

Whereas William Cherry< no role > of Spittalfields Butcher Hath at this Present Session
Exhibited his Petition Settingforth That by Indenture Dated the Thirteenth day of
December 1763 in Consideration of Sixteen pounds sixteen shillings Antrum Allen< no role >
became bound an apprentice to the Petitioner in his Trade of a Butcher for the Term
of Seven years That the Petitioner had in all things performed his part of the Covenants
and Conditions in the said Indenture contained but his Apprentice Disregarding the
best of usage from the Petitioner about the Eleventh day of February last absconded
from the Petitioner and Refused to be any longer his Apprentice or anyways under
his controul That the Petitioner about a Month ago took his said Apprentice [..]
up with a Warrant and carryed him before a Majestrate for his said Offence when
he was committed to Bridewell but afterwards Bailed out That the said Antrum
as the Petitioner was Informed had since Entered into Business for himself or in
Partnership with another Butcher and putts the Petitioner wholly at Defyance
and refuses to return to his Duty Whereby the Petitioner is greatly Injured
And praying relief in the Premisses and that the Court would Compell the said
apprentice to return his said Service