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To the Rt Worshipfull her Majesties
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Justices
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of the peace
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The humble petition of
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John Ford
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Andrew
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of the
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in the said County
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Joyner
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Sheweth
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That your petitioner was bed up in Comunion with
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the Church of Rome, and was, by Indentened dated on or as
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boat the 5th of July 1704, bound an
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for 7 years
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to the said
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Andrew Andrews
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(who was then and still is in
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Communion with the said Church of Romes to learn the
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trade of a
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That so long as your Petr continued in that communion,
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his said Master was very Kind to him, as to Meat, drink
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washing, and lodgeing: but your pet haveing, within 12
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months last past, conformd to the Church of England as
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by law Established, this, said Master is become very unkind,
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and Ever Cruel to him, in Severall respects, not only
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Neglecting to find your petr meat, drink, and apparell fit and
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Necessary for him, but severall times giveing your petr very
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Immoderate Correction, even when he has deserved none
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all, severall times beating your petr in a violent and
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barbarous manner, and stamying his foot upon your Petr
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breash, and such has been his late usage and threats to
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your Petr, That your petr is afraid to live any longer with
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him, leash he should be the occasion of your petr death
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Yor Petr therefore humbly prays yor worshipps
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to take his Cafe into your Consideration
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and to discharge your petr from his Service
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And Yor Petr shall even pray Etc.
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