in order to fill his Belly otherwise he verily believes before this time he must
have starved and hath often paid 6 or seven Shillings at a time for it which
his Father in Law has always given him so to do, and that when his said
Master and Mistress had three apprentices which was about three years they
made them all three lay together in one bed in a small Cock Loft and were never
allowed to have a Chamber Pot in the Loft and were always obliged to
make water out at the Window That the Petitioners said Master being a
Person very much addicted to drinking he often staying out till twelve one two
three & four o' Clock in the morning when the Petitioners said Mistress used
always to send him and the other apprentices every night when so out
(which has some times been six or seven nights together) to all the public
Houses in Holborn and the Strand and all round the neighbourhood
and it is very seldom they can find him and when the public Houses are
shut up he then goes to the Watch House where they are sure to find him
and it is often Impossible to get him home and are always obliged to sit
up till he does come home notwithstanding which they are often obliged to
be up at four five and six o' Clock in the Morning to their writing and often
have only two or three hours rest and praying to be discharged from his
apprenticeship Etc which said Appeal stood duly adjourned unto this Day
Now upon hearing the said Appeal in the presence and hearing of the said
Petitioner Francis Le Strange and the said George Freeland< no role > and what hath
been alledged by them their respective Council and Witnesses in and converning
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 Francis Le Strange be and he is
hereby absolutely discharged from his apprenticeship to the said George Freeland< no role >
In Testimony whereof we four of the said Justices present in the said Session
at the making of the said Order of discharge as aforesaid Have hereunto set our
hands and Seals the twenty fourth day of June-in the eighteenth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc and
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight

John Hawkins< no role >
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Thos. Brooksbank< no role >