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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden for the
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on Friday the twenty fifth day of October in the twenty eighth Year of the reign of our
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Sovereign Lord George the second King of Great Britain Etc before
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of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in the County
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aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds
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committed in the same County.
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James Blackstock
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exhibited his humble Petition unto this Court at this
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present General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the County of Middx by
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adjournment on Tuesday the twenty second day of October instant Settingforth That by
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Indenture bearing date the fourteenth day of January which was in the Year of our Lord
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One thousand seven hundred and fifty two Maynard Wolsoncroft was bound Apprentice to
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the Petition for the Term of Sovereign to learn the Business of a
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Hair Merchant
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And
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that the said
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during the time he continued with the Petitioner
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behaved himself in a very unbecoming and disrespectfull manner in greatly neglecting the
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Petitioners Business and refusing to obey his lawfull Commands and hath divers times
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absented himself from the Petitioners Service associating himself with loose idle and
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disorderly Persons about the Streets and in Lewd Houses sometimes touching away
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from such Service for a Week together and hath frequently declared that he would not
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live with the Petitioner And that on the fifteenth day of this instant October the said
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Maynard Wolsoncroft again ran away from the Petitioners Service and on the seventeenth
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day of the same Month was accidentally met with in the Street by the Petitioners other
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Apprentice
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who telling the said Maynard Wolsoncroft of his extreme bad
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behavior the said Maynard declared that if the Petitioner dared to correct him he would
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set Fire to the Petitioners House and burn down the same and all that was in it
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whereupon the Petitioner obtained Warrant from a Magistrate upon which he was
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apprehended and sent to
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And that the Petitioner from the repeated Misbehaviour
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of the said Maynard is assured he shall never be able to reap any Advantage from his
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Service nor shall be able to teach him his Trade and is apprehensive that he will do the
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Petitioner same very great Mischief in Case he shall be obliged to receive him again
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And the Petitioner therefore humbly prayed this Court to take the Promisses into
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Consideration and to vacate the said Indenture and to discharge him from the said
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or otherwise to grant him such Relief as to this Court should seem meet
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Whereupon it was by an Order made by the said Court on the said twenty second day
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of October instant Ordered that the said Maynard Wolsoncroft should have Notice
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of the said Petition and that he and all Persons concerned should attend this Court on
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this present Friday the twenty fifth day of October instant at ten of the Clock in the
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Forenoon to hear and abide the Judgement and Determination of this Court touching
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