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<p n="1">To the Right Honrble Sr <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15025_n1-1">Samuel Stanier</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15025_occ1">Knt</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15025_occ2">Lord Major</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15025_geo1">City of London</rs>
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and to the Rt Worpll the Rest of her Maties<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15025_occ3">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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within the same city in the Generall Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions Assembled</p>
<p n="2">The humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15025_n2-1">Thomas Griffith</rs>
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<p n="3"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15025_n3-1">Sarah Ball</rs>
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a poor Girl aged about Thirteen years belonging to the<lb></lb>
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on the Wall London was on the 5th Day of august last<lb></lb>
past by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the said parish and<lb></lb>
also by and with the consent to two of her Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15025_occ4">Justices of the peace</rs>
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within this city set forth and bound apprentice to your Petitioner to learn<lb></lb>
the Art of clear straching and cleaning of silk and Bibbons and to serve<lb></lb>
your petitioner untill she should Attain the age of 21 years according<lb></lb>
to the statute in that case made and provided By within Indenture your<lb></lb>
petitioners is bound to indempnify and save Harmless the said parish and<lb></lb>
parishioners from all charges whatsoever upon the account of the said<lb></lb>
Apprentice as by the same Inenture of Apprenticeship may more fully<lb></lb>
appeare but your position having found his said apprentice to be a loose<lb></lb>
idle she<obscured></obscured>
and disorderly Girl and upon Examination of the said Girl having<lb></lb>
confessed that she was debanished by a man who gave her the foul disease<lb></lb>
before your petitioner had taken her to his Apprentice which distemper hall<lb></lb>
so increased upon her and is now become so loath some that she is altogether<lb></lb>
unfitt for your peitioner service and that your petitioner apprentice does<lb></lb>
not her Duty to your petitioner her Master as by the Covenants of he<lb></lb>
Apprenticeship She ought to doe And your Petitoner being ignorant of the<lb></lb>
bad condition of his Apprentice<del>ship</del>
and having been at charge to maintain<lb></lb>
sher and being but a poor man applyed himself to the churchwarden of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15025_geo3">allhallows</rs>
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to provide for her and get her meod of her distemper But they<lb></lb>
Refuse so to do</p>
<p n="4">Wherefore your petitioner humbly prays this Honrble court would<lb></lb>
order the churchwarden & Overseers of the poor of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15025_geo4">parish<lb></lb>
of Allhallows</rs>
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to appear before this court to shew cause why they<lb></lb>
should not provide for the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15025_n4-1">Sara Ball</rs>
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and that your petitioner<lb></lb>
may be discharged from his said Apprentice and the said Indenture<lb></lb>
cancelead</p>
<p n="5">And Yor. Petioner Shall ever Pray Etc.</p>
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