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To the Right Honrble Sr
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Sessions Assembled
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The humble petition of
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Sarah Ball
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a poor Girl aged about Thirteen years belonging to the
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on the Wall London was on the 5th Day of august last
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past by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the said parish and
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also by and with the consent to two of her Majesties
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Justices of the peace
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within this city set forth and bound apprentice to your Petitioner to learn
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the Art of clear straching and cleaning of silk and Bibbons and to serve
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your petitioner untill she should Attain the age of 21 years according
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to the statute in that case made and provided By within Indenture your
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petitioners is bound to indempnify and save Harmless the said parish and
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parishioners from all charges whatsoever upon the account of the said
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Apprentice as by the same Inenture of Apprenticeship may more fully
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appeare but your position having found his said apprentice to be a loose
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idle she
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and disorderly Girl and upon Examination of the said Girl having
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confessed that she was debanished by a man who gave her the foul disease
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before your petitioner had taken her to his Apprentice which distemper hall
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so increased upon her and is now become so loath some that she is altogether
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unfitt for your peitioner service and that your petitioner apprentice does
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not her Duty to your petitioner her Master as by the Covenants of he
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Apprenticeship She ought to doe And your Petitoner being ignorant of the
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bad condition of his Apprentice
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and having been at charge to maintain
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sher and being but a poor man applyed himself to the churchwarden of
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to provide for her and get her meod of her distemper But they
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Refuse so to do
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Wherefore your petitioner humbly prays this Honrble court would
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order the churchwarden & Overseers of the poor of the said
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to appear before this court to shew cause why they
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should not provide for the said
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Sara Ball
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and that your petitioner
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may be discharged from his said Apprentice and the said Indenture
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cancelead
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And Yor. Petioner Shall ever Pray Etc.
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