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<p n="724"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50624_geo596">Middlesex</rs>
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To the Worshipfull the Chairman<lb></lb>
and the rest of the Justices in their<lb></lb>
General Quarter Session Assembled</p>
<p n="725">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50624_n725-1">James Burnsted</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50624_occ241">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50624_n725-2">John Smallwood</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50624_occ242">Cabinet maker</rs>
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now living in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50624_geo597">Parish of<obscured></obscured>
W Chappell</rs>
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<p n="726"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That yr Petr. was by Indre of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50624_occ243">Apprenticeship</rs>
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Dated the 16th. Day of October 1766 Bound to the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50624_n726-1">John Smallwood</rs>
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for the Term of seven Years in Consderation of the Sum of £26-5-0 to learn<lb></lb>
the Art & Mistory of a Cabinet maker & to be Instructed<lb></lb>
in the best Manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50624_n726-2">John Smallwood</rs>
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Could</p>
<p n="727">That the said Master hath frequently very Ill<lb></lb>
Treated yr Petr. and many Times Assaulted & beat<lb></lb>
your Petr. without just Cause</p>
<p n="728">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50624_n728-1">John Smallwood</rs>
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has not only neglected<lb></lb>
to Instruct yr. Petr. as by the Indre he Covenants to<lb></lb>
do but hath also refused to Teach & Instruct him</p>
<p n="729">Yr. Petr. therefore most humbly<lb></lb>
Prays your Worships to Discharge<lb></lb>
him from his said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50624_occ244">Apprenticeship</rs>
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&<lb></lb>
to give him such further Relief as<lb></lb>
to yr Worships may seem meet</p>
<p n="730">And yr Petr. will ever pray</p>
<p n="731"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50624_n731-1">James Burnsted</rs>
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