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To the Right Worshipfull Sir
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John Gonson
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of the
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Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace he to for the City & Liberty of
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Westmr. & the Rest of his Majestys Justices there
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The humble Petition of
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George Hind
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That on the third day of December 1735 Your Petitioner was bound
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an Apprentice by Indenture unto
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William Meadow
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Citizen Joyner of London
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for the Space of seven Years on the same day Your Petitioner was by
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Writing under the hand Seal of the said William Meadow Turnd over to
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John Lowrey
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of the Parish of Saint James Westmr.
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Joyner
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to whom Your
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Petitioner said the Summe of twenty Pounds
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That some short time after Your Petitioner was so turned over to the
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said
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John Lowrey
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as aforesaid, he began to abridge Your Petitioner of Comon
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Sustenance both as to Eating & Drinking and the Your Petitioner hath often
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Complained of the same to the said Lowrey Yeth Could never obtain any Redress
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That during Your Petitioners Servitude the said Lowry hath Severall
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times as deced Your Petitioner to deny him to his Creditors & thro' the badness
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of his Circumstances was oblieyd about a Month Since to abscond & Leave of
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of ade by Shutting up his Shop & Disposing of his household Goods so that Your
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Petitioners is now entirely Destitute of a Master & must have clam in the Streets
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being an Orphan unless Releivd by an Acquaintance of Your Petitioners late
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father
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Your Petitioners therefore most humbly Prays Your Worships
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that You will be pleased to take his Case into Consideration
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& order that he may for the Reasons aforesaid be discharged
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from his said Apprentiship from the said
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& that
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the said Lowrey may Return to Your Petitioners the said twenty Pounds or
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Such part thereof so given to him as aforesaid as the said
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Court shall seem meet
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And Your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc
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Geo. Hind
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