Middlesex

At the General 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 fourth
day of June in the eighteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc Before
Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knight the Reverend Sir George Booth< no role >
Baronet David Walker< no role > Thomas Brooksbank< 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
misdemeanours committed in the same County

Whereas Francis Le Strange< no role > Apprentice to George Freeland< no role > of the Liberty
of the Rolls in the County of Middlesex Stationer Did at the General Session
of the peace held for the said County Exhibit his Petition and Appeal setting
forth That the Petitioner was by Indenture bearing date the ninth day of
March one thousand seven hundred and seventy four by and with the consent
of his Father in Law William Marshall< no role > bound an Apprentice to the said George
Freeland< no role > for the Term of seven years from the date of the said Indenture
That the Petitioners said Master received the sum of twenty one pounds
from the Petitioners said Father in Law as an Apprentice Fee at the time he
became so bound That the Petitioners said Father in Law was to find him
during the said Term in wearing Apparel and making and mending thereof
and washing and the Petitioners said Master was to find sufficient Meat
Drink Lodging and all other necessarys during the said term That the
Petitioner hath from the said ninth day of March one thousand seven hundred
and seventy four to this time faithfully served the said George Freeland< no role > as
such apprentice and never absented himself from his said Masters Service without
his said Master or Mistresses Consent That ever since the Petitioner hath been
so bound his said Mistress hath never allowed him half sufficient Victuals
Drink and other necessarys and that often unwholsome and not fit for any
Christian to eat and the Tea allowed him is always so bad and nauscious
that he is obliged to throw the greatest part of it away and that he has been
during the whole time so much in hunger that he hath every day been obligate
to go to a Chandlers Shop to buy Bread Cheese Butter and small Beer