To the worshipfull his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in & for
the County of Middlesex at the general Session of the Peace
assembled.

The humble Petition of the Churchwardens & Overseers
of the parish of Saint Faith under Saint Paul London

Sheweth,

That on the 5th. day of April 1781 Mary Dauter< no role > a poor
Child of the said Parish of Saint Faith was bound out by the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the said Parish an Apprentice
to William winder< no role > of Cheequer Alley Bunhill Row in the Parish
of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex Watch chain maker
till she should attain the Age of Twenty one or Day of Marriage.

That the said William Winder< no role > received with the said Mary
Dauter the Sum of Seven pounds being a Gift left by the late
Daniel Midwinter< no role > Esquire to the said Parish of Saint Faith
to put out poor Children Apprentices and to buy them some
Cloaths.

That soon after the said Mary Dauter< no role > had been with her
said Master he began to use her very ill by beating her under
Pretence that she did not do work enough, setting her Fourteen
Hours Work in a Day to do and from that time almost daily
beat and ill heated her, shiking her over the Head, & other Parts
with an Instrument called a Drik Bow and sometimes with a
Rupes End Keeping his Hand before her Month to prevent her
Cries being heard & she has several times a Day been obliged to
wash the Blood from her Cloaths He likewise kept her to work
on Sundays, and caused her to be denied to any person who came
to see her Said his Master had used him ill when an Apprentice
to & he would use her the same.

That the Girl bore this Behaviour as long as she possibly