City Borough and Town of Westmr.
in the County of Middx}

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace holden at the Town Court House near Westmr. Hall in and for the
Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westmr. the City Borough and Town of Westmr. in the
County of Middx and St. Martin le grand London by Adjournment on Friday the Eleventh day of October in the Nineteenth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain Etc before Thomas Burdus< no role > Richard
Farwell< no role > Thomas Ellys< no role > . George Howard< no role > Esquires and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned
to keep the peace within the said Liberty and also to hear and determine diverse Felonies Trespasses and other misdeeds
committed within the said Liberty

Upon Reading the Humble Petition of James Jarvis< no role > exhibited to this Court thereby shewing that the said Petitioner on the
Seventeenth day of June One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty One had put himself Apprentice to Thomas Watkins< no role > Carpenter for the
space of Seven years to learn the Art and Trade of a Carpenter .

That the said Thomas Watkins< no role > had hitherto totally neglected to Teach and Instruct the said Petitioner therein but instead thereof
had hitherto cheifly employed him in making Mopsticks and carrying of Burthens

And the said Thomas Watkins< no role > had often times within these Three Years last past without any Just Cause or reason taken
occasion with Mopsticks Broomsticks and other Instruments of Severity to beat and bruise the said Petitioner in a very cruel manner
which occasioned or violent Fever and Sickness under which the said petitioner laboured for upwards of Three Months.

That after the said Petitioners Recovery of his health he returned to the said Thomas Watkins< no role > his Master and the said Petitioner
requested that he should be Instructed in the Business of a Carpenter which the said Thomas Watkins< no role > the Master promised but had neglected so
to do and without any Just Cause or provocation had treated the said Petitioner in such a Cruel manner ever since that seldom had a week
past in which he had not once or oftner Kick't beat and bruised the said Petitioner in a Cruel manner and threatned to murder him and at the
same times had Thrown at the said Petitioner Mallets Hammers and several other dangerous things by which the said Petitioners person and
life had been greatly endangered

That on the Twenty Eighth day of June last the said Thomas Watkins< no role > with great Violence throw an edge Tool at the said
Petitioner which wounded him through all his Cloths, The Petitioner therefore prayed for the reasons aforesaid that this Court would discharge
the said Petitioner from his said Apprenticeship and Master and that the Indenture may be cancelled and to have such other Releif as this Court
should seem meet Whereupon It was ordered That the said Thomas Watkins< no role > the Master should have Notice of the said Petition and
Complaint and that he should attend this Court this day at Nine of the Clock in the forenoon to answer the said petition and to abide the
final determination of this Court Now upon hearing of the said James Jarvis< no role > and his Counsell and upon Examination into the Truth of the
premisses forasmuch as it appeareth unto this Court that the Allegations aforesaid are true And for that it further appeareth to this Court
by the Oath of Eli [..] Brideoake< no role > that he personally served the said Thomas Watkins< no role > on the Tenth day of this Instant October in the forenoon
at his dwelling house in Boloign Court in the Parish of St. Martin in the feilds with a tue Copy of the Petition and Order and Acquainted
him with the purport and meaning thereof and for that neither the said Thomas Watkins< no role > nor any person on his behalf do appear in this
Court to shew Cause against discharging the said James Jarvis< no role > from his said Master Thomas Watkins< no role > from his said Apprenticehood It is