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31 July 1713.
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Cook. Apprent to Page
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to return to his Mar}
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At this Court
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of this Hospital
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prayed to be discharged from his said Master and that his Indentures
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of Apprenticeship might be cancelled for that he was not able to
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performe the Task his Master setthim which was Twelve Yards
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a day of worsted caddus in an Engine Loom so very difficult to
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work in that Two others of the said Payes apprentices had run away
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because they could not do their Task in it And the said Page being
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prsent in Court Seemed desirous to be rid of her said apprentice tho he
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alledged it was a detriment to him, the said Cook haveing served
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three years of his time and learnt his Trade so that he was more
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capable of earning him money That the could do more than his
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Task but was a Lazy wife Boy had run away house and helpt to Spoile
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the rest of his Apprentices. That it was true two others had run
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away from him the not because they could not do their Tasks but were
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idle boys like this and did not care for any work Whereupon
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and upon considering the whole matter this Court doth Order the
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said Cook to returne to his Master to Serve out the remainder of
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his time And the said
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a Moderate Task
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Whittmore Nath
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ye Complaint of his appear
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Newton is frisolons}
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At this Court was read a Report from the Comee of this
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house dated the 21st day of this Instant July in these words
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vizt. In pursuance of an Order made at a Court holden
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at this hospital the Twenty Sixth day of June last this Comee
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examined into the matter of the Complaint of
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his Master
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for incoderately beating and
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abuseing him and upon hearing both partys This Comee
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are of Opinion that the said Complaint is Frisolons
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