Middlesex

To the Worshipfull William
Mainwaring< no role > Esquire Chairman and the
rest of his Majesty's Justices in their General
Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled

The Humble Petition of Daniel Flannery< no role >
Son of Patrick Flannery< no role >

Sheweth

That your Petitioner with the Consent of his Father
became Bown'd an Apperentice to John Hope< no role > learn the Art
of a Shoemaker for the Term of 7 Years as by the Indenture
Carring date the 2d day of January 1754 Relation being thereunto
had may more fully and at large Appear

That your Petitioners Father Executed a Written
Agreement with his said Master to pay him the Sum of
Twenty One Guineas as an Apprentice Fee Seven Guineas
part thereof was paid at the time of Executing said Indenture
the Remaining Fourteen Guineas was Covenanted and agreed
to be paid by Installments on the 2.d day of January in every
Succeeding Year till the whole was paid

That your Petitioners said Father being then Chairman
to the Honurable Countess of Spencer (commonly called Lady
Spencer ) she humanely and Benevolently undertook to pay the [..]
said Sum of Twenty one Guineas in the manner above described
for the Relief and Assistance of your Petitioner in order that he
might be Instructed and perfected in the said Business

That before the Expiration of the first year of his
Apprenticeship his said Master wrote a letter to Lady Spencer
therein Acguainting her it was in Vain for her Ladyship to advance
or pay any further sum on Account of your Petitioner and that
he never would learn the trade, that thereupon her Ladyship
withheld her said Bounty

That your Petitioner during the 12 Months he Continued
with his said Master (who's [..] ) was fed on Hogs lard
Salt and Water with stale Brown bread, which often Caused him
to have a fit of illness and become distempered and in a Weak
low state - Added to that of his Master and Mastress most
Tlenty and inhumanly beating him on many trivial Occasions
without any Cause

That