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To the Worshipfull the Chair-Man and the rest
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of his Majesty's Justicies of the Peace for the
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The Humble Petition of
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Son of
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Isaac Sumner
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Most humbly Shews
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That your Petrs. said Father having on the
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30th. day
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of Octr. last
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by Indenture Bound your Petr. Apprentice to
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John
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Griffin
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then of
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Black Fryers
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London
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(but now of the
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parish
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of St. Andrew
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in the said County of Middlesex
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Watch
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Finisher
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) for the Term of Seven Years to be Computed from
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the date of the said Indenture, And having as appears by the
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said Indenture In Consideration of the said
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Undertaking during the said Term to Instruct and Teach
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or cause to be Instructed and taught your Petr. in the
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best way and manner he cou'd the said Art or Business
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of a
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and in Consideration of the said
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John
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Griffin
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's Undertaking to find and Allow your Petr. John
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Sufficient Meat, Drink, Washing, Lodging and all other
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necessarys during the said Term, Your Petrs. Father paid
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him the said
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John Griffin
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as an Apprentice Fee with your
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Petr. the Sum of five pounds five Shillings as Appears
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by the said Indenture
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Your Petr. further humbly Shews your Worships
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that he Faithfully and punctually Served the said
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John
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Griffin
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from the said
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30th. day of October
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Untill on or about
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the
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23d. day of July last
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, when your Petr. through or Violent
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fitt of Illness Occasioned by very ill Usage of his Master
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by his not Allowing him Sufficient Meat of Drink and by
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Obliging him to lye in a Cold Stinking Room on a very
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Nasty dirty Old Bed not big enough for a Bloster and
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greatly Infected with Lice and other Vermin, and Obliging
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your Petr. to Work at very Immoderate and unreasonable
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Hours and in a very Dark place Where his Eyes were
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Affected And the said
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John Griffin
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or his Wife neglecting
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