City Borough and Town of
Westmtr. 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 and for the Liberty of the Dean and Chaptor 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 ontheDay of April in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain & before
Henry Feilding< no role >
Thomas Lediard< no role >
James Fraser< no role > This name instance is in set 3480.
Gabrial Fonace< no role >
Esquire
and others their follows 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 done and Committed in the said Liberty.
Whereas John Lambert< no role >
having Exhibited his Humble Petition to this Court Setting forth That by Indenture of apprenticeship
bearing date the Seventh day of June One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty Nine John Leeth< no role >
and James
Neeld< no role >
Church Wardens of the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westminster
and Thomas Borwick< no role >
and Stephen
Heare< no role >
Overseers of the Poor
of the said Parish by and with the Consent of Richard Manley< no role >
and Thomas Lodiard< no role >
Esquires
two of his Majesties Justices of the Peace
within the said Liberty had Put and Placed out and James Hyde< no role >
them
Aged Fourteen Years or thereabouts a Poor Child of the said Parish Apprentice to the said John Lambert< no role >
with him to Dwell
and Serve From the day of the Date of the said Indenture untill the said Apprentice should Accomplish his full age of
Twenty four Years according to the Statue in that Case made that in the said Indenture the said Apprentice did
Covenant to Serve the said John Lambert< no role >
faithfully in all Lawfull Bussiness and behave himself towards the said John
Lambert during all the said Term as by Indenture may more at large Appear that the said James Hyde< no role >
had
behaved himself in the most Andacious disobedient disorderly and dishonest manner hath four different Times run
away from and departed the said John Lambert< no role >
Service that the said James Hyde< no role >
over Since the Date of the said
Indenture hath almost every day refused to obey the said John Lambert< no role >
Lawfull Commands or to do and Perform
the said John Lambert< no role >
Common and usual buissiness the said John Lambert< no role >
Prayed this Court would discharge
him from the said Indenture and that the said Indenture may be Vacated and made Void and the said James
Hyde< no role >
being in Tothillfeilds Bridewell
upon the Complaint of the said John Lambert< no role >
for being an idle and disorderly
Apprentice
and being now sent for and being Present bere in Court and not denying the Allegations and Truth of the
said Petition and the said James Hyde< no role >
Consenting to be discharged from his said Indenture of Apprenticeship
to the said
John Lambert< no role >
It is therefore by the Consent of the said John Lambert< no role >
the Master and the said James Hyde< no role >
the
Apprentice Ordered by this Court that the said John Lambert< no role >
be and he is hereby Absolutely discharged from the said
Indenture of Apprenticeship
and the said Indenture is Vacated and made Void and we whose hands and Seals are
hereunto Sett being four of his Majesties Justices of the Peace
for this Liberty (One of us being of the Quorum) Present of
the said Sessions have Pronounced and declared and do Pronounce and declare that for the reasons aforesaid We have
discharged and accordingly do Discharge the said John Lambert< no role >
of and from his Apprentice the said James Hyde< no role >
and
do Discharge the said James Hyde< no role >
Accordingly Dated this Twentieth Day of April in the Year of our Lord One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Fifty.