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<p n="46">To the Worshipfull the Chairman and others his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50411_occ21">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo47">Middx</rs>
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at this Present<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions, at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo48">Hick's Hall</rs>
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assembled</p>
<p n="47">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50411_n47-1">George Stater</rs>
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an<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50411_occ22">Apprentice</rs>
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by his next Friend</p>
<p n="48"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Worship's Petr. in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred &<lb></lb>
Forty Seven was put out an Apprentice from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo49"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo50">Parish of St. Botolphs<lb></lb>
Bishopgate</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo51">London</rs>
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</rs>
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to One <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50411_n48-1">Benjamin Trottman</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo52"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo53">New Inn Yard</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo54">Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo55">Middx</rs>
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</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50411_occ23">Weaver</rs>
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that about Two Years since<lb></lb>
his Master died <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50411_n48-3">Rachael</rs>
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his Widow Surviving him she Intermarried with a second<lb></lb>
Husband a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50411_occ24">Capenter</rs>
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one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50411_n48-2">Henry Swane</rs>
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that since such Intermarriage your Worship's poor<lb></lb>
Petitioner, has not been in the least Instructed in any Business or Trade<lb></lb>
whatever, Either in the Weaving Way or otherwise but is Employed<lb></lb>
Daily Carrying Polonia Puddings about the Streets, which he most<lb></lb>
Humbly Apprehends was not the design or Intention of the Indenture<lb></lb>
but that he should learn the Art and Mistery of a Weaver or some other<lb></lb>
useful Trade or Business, to be of Service to him hereafter</p>
<p n="49">That your Worships Petr. has a Personof Credit and Reputation<lb></lb>
to be turned over to who is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50411_occ25">Weaver</rs>
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, should You think Prpper to<lb></lb>
let him be Discharged from his Present Master upon this his Complaint<lb></lb>
the whole and sole Reason being that he may be Capable of getting<lb></lb>
his Bread in an Industrious and reputable way, and not to remain<lb></lb>
running up and down the Street in the manner he at present does to his<lb></lb>
great prejudice and Disadvantage</p>
<p n="50">He therefore most humbly begs that yr. Worships<lb></lb>
would be pleased to Consider his Case and that<lb></lb>
You would make such Order<lb></lb>
in the Premises as to you shall seem met<lb></lb>
meet and Convenient</p>
<p n="51">And Ye: Petr. as in Duty bound shall ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="52"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50411_n52-1">George Slater</rs>
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</p>
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