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To the Worshipfull the Chairman and the rest of his Majesty's
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Justices
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on Thursday
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the 28th. day of February in the 24th. Year of the Reign of his present
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Majesty King George the Second Assembled
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The Petition of
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William Rooke
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Humbly Sheweth
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That Yor. Worships Petr. by Indre of Apprenticeship bearing
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date on or about the
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third day of September in the 21st. Year of the Reign of
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Our Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain Etc.
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and in the
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Year of Our Lord 1747. was bound an Apprentice to
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James Woolsey
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Surgeon
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(but of the
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in the
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) for the space of Seven Years in Consideration of 20, Guineas
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as is therein mentioned, and undertook to make him free of sd. City tho' not so himself.
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That Yor. Petrs. since the time of his binding hath been rather more
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Employed by his said Master in making Candles than Surgery And hath
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been often times Severely beat by him for not weighing the Tallow as it
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came in, and the Greaves or Dross thereof as it went out to the End he might
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the better know what he gained by making his own Candles, Duty Free,
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That on the
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5th. day of Decemr
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. 1749. Yor. Petr. geting up at 6. of
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the Clock in the Morning, as his said Master required, It being then very dark
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in the Shop, he lighted up two Candles for which his said Master when he got
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up very unmercifully Horse whip'd him.
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That on the
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10th. day of June
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following his said Master for no Offence
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given him (known to Yor. Petr.) Struck Yor. Petr. with great force and Violence
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upon his
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which beat him almost down to the Ground and Stun'd
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him very much.
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That on the
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12th day of December
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last his said Master beating
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Yor. Petr. again Struck him a very desperate blow on his left Eye, which
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bruised it very much and caused a great Swelling and blackness for a
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Fortnight, And on the
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7th. of January
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following with his Closed fists gave
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Yor. Petr. several blows upon his breast and Stomach so that thereby he
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was almost deprived of his BreathAnd very sorely bruised
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And That his said Master hath at divers and Sundry other times so cruelly
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and unmercifully beat and bruiesed Yor. Petr. that he hath almost despair'd
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of his Life.
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Yor. Worships Petr. therefore Humbly Prays
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Yor. Worships would be pleased to take his Case
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into Your Consideration, And Discharge him
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from his said Master And make such
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further Order touching the Premisses
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As to Yor. Worships shall seem meet
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And Yor. Petr. as in Duty
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Bound Shall ever Pray.
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Wm. Rooke
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