Middlesex

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord
the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall
in Saint John Street by adjournment on Thursday the eleventh day
of July in the sixteenth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the third King of Great Britain Etc Before The Reverend Sir George
Booth< no role > Baronet John Spencer Colepeper< no role > David Walker< 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
Misdemeanors committed in the same County.

Whereas Joseph Phipps< no role > Hath at this present Session Exhibited his
Petition setting forth That on or about the first day of May one thousand seven
hundred and seventy one the Petitioner was bound Apprentice one James
Parry< no role > of the parish of Christ Church in the County of Middlesex Weaver to serve
for the full and Term of seven Years from the date thereof and in consideration
of the Sum of one hundred pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain paid by the
Petitioners Mother Rachael Phipps< no role > to the said James Parry< no role > he the said James
Parry< no role > was to teach and Intruct or cause to be taught and Instructed the Petitioner
in the Art and Mystery of a Weaver and was to find and provide the Petitioner
with Sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging during the said Term. That on or
about the sixth day of February last a Commission of bankrupey under the
Great Seal of Great Britain was Awarded and Issued against the said James
Parry< no role > and he was thereupon found and declared a Bankrupt and Joseph
Armitage< no role > of Charter house Square in the County of Middlesex Merchant and
Jacob Henry Serve< no role > of Church Alley Cateaton Street in the City of London Merchant
have been duly chosen Assignees of his Estate and Effects and an Assignment thereof
hath been executed to them accordingly That for the space of six Weeks or
thereabouts before the Petitioners said Master become Bankrupt he carried on
Little or on Business and since the Issuing of the said Commission against him
he hath not done any thing in the said Trade Whereby to Employ himself or the
Petitioner in or kept any proper to teach the Petitioner the said Business so
that the Petitioner is at a total Loss for Instruction therein and must entirely lose
the Benefit of the said Trade in Case he Continues with his said Master That
the said Assignes under the said Commission and also the said James Parry< no role >
have been applied to on behalf of the Petitioner to discharge him from his said
Apprenticeship But they have absolutely refused so to do altho the said James
Parry< no role > hath not obtained his Certificate under the said Commission That the
Petitioners said Mother hath ready another proper Master for the Petitioner to
serve the remainder of the said Term in case Your Worships shall think fit to
discharge him from the said James Parry< no role > and praying to be discharged from his
Apprenticeship and for other relief Now upon hearing the said Appeal in the
presence and hearing of the said Petitioners Joseph Phipps< no role > and the said James
Parry< no role > and what hath been alledged by them their respective Counsel and Witnesses
in and concerning the Premises and It appearing to this Court that the
Substance of the said Petition is true It is ordered by the Court that the said