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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden for<lb></lb>
the County of Middx at Hicks Hall in Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50439_geo31">John Street</rs>
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in the County aforesaid by<lb></lb>
adjournment on Thursday the tenth day of April in the twenty eighth year of the<lb></lb>
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second King of Great Britain Etc before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n30-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Lane</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n30-2">George Errington</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n30-3">Bartholomew Hammond</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n30-4">Francis Bedwell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50439_occ13">Esquires</rs>
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and others their<lb></lb>
Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid<lb></lb>
and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed in<lb></lb>
the same County.</p>
<p n="31">Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n31-1">Robert Hawkes</rs>
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exhibited his humble Petition unto this Court at this<lb></lb>
present General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the County of Middx by<lb></lb>
adjournment on Tuesday the eighth day of April instant Setting forth That the Petitioner<lb></lb>
was put out Apprentice by the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50439_geo32">Low Layton</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50439_geo33">County of Essex</rs>
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to one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n31-2">John Dumbleton</rs>
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who is by Trade a Pump maker and Keeps a Publick House in the<lb></lb>
Parish of<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50439_geo34"> Saint Mary White Chappell</rs>
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in the County of Middx about eleven years<lb></lb>
ago to serve him and learn the Art and Mistery of a Pump maker untill he should<lb></lb>
arrive to the Age of twenty four Years and has four Years to serve from the second<lb></lb>
day of March last And that for the whole eleven years that the Petitioner hath lived<lb></lb>
with his said Master instead of being learnt his Trade of a Pump maker hath been<lb></lb>
almost constantly employed in drawing of Beer both Sundays and Working days and<lb></lb>
has never been suffered to go to Church once during the whole eleven years And<lb></lb>
that the Petitioner hath undergone violent Severities and Ill usage from his said<lb></lb>
Master during the whole time that he hath so lived with him by being beat with Sticks<lb></lb>
and Whips and by flinging the Petitioner in a Horse Pond in a Cold Frosty Morning<lb></lb>
without the least Provocation And that on the fourteenth day of March last the Petitioner's<lb></lb>
Master knockt him down with a Hand Saw and beat and bruised the Petitioner so<lb></lb>
violently that he was not able to see out of one of his Eyes for some days And the Petitioner<lb></lb>
therefore most humbly prayed this Court to be pleased to order the Petitioner to be discharged<lb></lb>
forthwith from his said Master and that he might make the Petitioner a Satisfaction suitable<lb></lb>
for the Injury he had so sustained or that this Court might make such other Order in<lb></lb>
the Premisses as to this Court should seem most meet Whereupon it was by an Order<lb></lb>
made by this Court on the said eighth day of April instant Ordered that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n31-4">John<lb></lb>
Dumbleton</rs>
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should attend this Court on this present Thursday the tenth day of April<lb></lb>
instant at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon to hear and abide the Judgement and Determination<lb></lb>
of this Court touching the Matters contained in the said Petition and the Complaint of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n31-5">Robert Hawkes</rs>
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, the aforesaid Session being now on the same day holden by adjournment for<lb></lb>
the said County of Middx Now upon hearing of what was alledged by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n31-6">Robert<lb></lb>
Hawkes</rs>
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and his Council and also by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n31-7">John Dumbleton</rs>
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forasmuch as it appeareth<lb></lb>
to this Court upon Oath that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n31-8">John Dumbleton</rs>
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hath divers times beaten the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50439_n31-9">Robert Hawkes</rs>
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and given him very immoderate Correction without reasonable Cause and<lb></lb>
that the Substance of the said Petition is true It is Ordered by this Court that the</p>
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