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

At the General Quarter Session of the peace of our Lord the King holden at the Town Court House near Westmr. Hall in &
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 adjornment on Tuesday the Seventeenth day of October
in the twenty third year of the Reign of a Sovereign Lord George the second King of Great Britain & before Henry Fielding< no role >
Gabriel Fonace< no role > John Upton< no role > Henry Kent< no role > Thomas Lediard< no role > Esqrs . 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 divers felonies trespasses and other
misdeeds done and committed within the said Liberty

Whereas William Pixley< no role > having exhibited his humble petition to this Court setting forth that by Indenture dated 14th. May 1746 John
Bowles< no role > a Poor Child of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within this Liberty was put apprentice by the Church Wardens and Overseers of
the Poor of the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields (with the consent of two Justices) to the said William Pixley< no role > That ever since the said
John Bowles< no role > became the said William Pixleys< no role > apprentice the said John Bowles< no role > had frequently neglected the said William Pixley< no role > 's
business by absence therefrom and associating himself with loose and disorderly people of both Sexes for weeks and months together And
also had frequently reced moneys due to the said William Pixley< no role > from his Customers for which crimes the said John Bowles< no role > was then in
Custody in the house of Correction where the said William Pixley< no role > had allowed him Four pence P day ever since his committment That the said
John Bowles< no role > being a known filthy person (having lately had the foul disease) and also serving the said William Pixley< no role > 's Customers
unseasonally the said William pixley< no role > 's said Customers had ofter declared that if the said Bowles continued his Apprentice they must
leave off dealing with him and employ some other Baker . The said William Pixley< no role > prayed this Court would discharge the said John
Bowles from being his Apprentice Or make such other Order as should seen meet And the said John Bowles< no role > being in Tothill Fields
Bridewell upon the Complaint of his Master for being an idle & disorderlyApprentice & being now sent for & being present here
in Court & not denying the allegations & huth of the said Petition & the said John Bowles< no role > consenting to be discharged from his said
Indenture of Apprenticehood to the said William Pixley< no role > It is therefore by the consent of the said William Pixley< no role > the Master and the
said John Bowles< no role > the-Apprentice ordered by this Court that the said John Bowles< no role > the Apprentice be and he is hereby absolutely
discharged from the said Indenture of Apprenticehood to the said William Pixley< no role > And we whose hands and seals are hereunto set being
five of his Majesties Justices of the peace for this Liberty (one of us being of the quorum) present at the said Sessions have pronamed and
Declared and do proname and Declare that for the reasons aforesaid We have discharged and accordingly do discharge the said John
Bowles of and from his Apprenticehood to the said William Pixley< no role > and of and from the service of the said William Pixley< no role >
Accordingly Dated under our Hands and Seals the 17th. day of October in the year of our Lord 1749