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Continued Thursday 18th. April 1776.
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Apprentices Petition
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disadvantage and Injury of your Petrs. such Attendances being often the
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consequence of disappointments in their Business (wherein punctuality is the
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most valuable property in a Trademan) as they very often at those Fires by
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Uppering and other Imprudence under themselves totally incapable of
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Service for some time after. That on Saturday Evening last about 16 of your
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Petrs. Apprentices (without the Consent of any person whomsoever) broke open
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the Door where the Engine is Kept and went to a fire in
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having
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first Abused some of Your Petrs. at the above and preceeding Fires 3 or 4 are
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rendered incapable of any kind of Business and are now under the Care of the
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Apothecary
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. That your Petnr. Appr. are often sent to Preson for their
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Misdemeanours and at the Expiration of their Apprenticeships are discharged
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without making your Petitioners any Satisfaction for the time they so lost by
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such Imprisonments Etc. Your Petrs. therefore Humble pray That your
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Worships will take the premises into Consideration & Act therein as your
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Worships shall seem meet & Your petrs. will ever Pary etc." The Humble Petr.
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of the Senr. Boys of the sd. Hospital That your Petrs. shod. think themselves
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greatly wanting in that dutiful respect they Owe to your as their Guardians &
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Supports (while receving the Charity of this Foundation if they did not in
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some repect Apoloize for an Act they have been guilty of lately in respect to the
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Engine being frociblly taken to Assist Messr. Fletcher & Co. during the Fire in
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and which they have no doubt will be made & agravated as a
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Subject of Complaint agt. them to Inquire them in your good Opinion The
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Engine of this Hospital has been for so many Years famed for a
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remarkable good one that there is hardly an Instance of a Fire happening
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at any reasonable distance but there are Numbers of People who run down
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to give the Alarm and we have always chearfully Attened such desirous
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of doing al the Service to the unhappy suffers which withjn our ablities
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understanding it was your pleasure we should do so the we never understood
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it was left to any one of the Beadles Option whether we were to go out or
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otherwise but imagined that the Fire Appearing dangerous and it being
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impossible to recollect in such hurry Whether any Governor lived near or
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whether they had any properly thereabouts we never thought we could get to it
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a minute too soon That your Petr. have met with numberless delay to where
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their going out often and to such a degree that we have been rendered almost
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useless when we have arrived through Inferior Engines blocking up the Average
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to such Fires and in the last Instance were kept in suspence a considerable time
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the Beadles hesitating whether the Engine should go out or not going down
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to Black fires Bridge to see & doubling whether it was near enough thought it
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appeared conspicuously Clear it was It was this Delay and the Fore
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fircely burning in our View which precipated us to Commit an Act which
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we Solemnly declare declare in doing we had no thought of offending you but upon a
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