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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden for
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adjournment on Thursday the tenth day of April in the twenty eighth year of the
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and others their
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Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid
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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 eighth day of April instant Setting forth That the Petitioner
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was put out Apprentice by the Parish of
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who is by Trade a Pump maker and Keeps a Publick House in the
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in the County of Middx about eleven years
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ago to serve him and learn the Art and Mistery of a Pump maker untill he should
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arrive to the Age of twenty four Years and has four Years to serve from the second
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day of March last And that for the whole eleven years that the Petitioner hath lived
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with his said Master instead of being learnt his Trade of a Pump maker hath been
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almost constantly employed in drawing of Beer both Sundays and Working days and
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has never been suffered to go to Church once during the whole eleven years And
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that the Petitioner hath undergone violent Severities and Ill usage from his said
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Master during the whole time that he hath so lived with him by being beat with Sticks
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and Whips and by flinging the Petitioner in a Horse Pond in a Cold Frosty Morning
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without the least Provocation And that on the fourteenth day of March last the Petitioner's
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Master knockt him down with a Hand Saw and beat and bruised the Petitioner so
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violently that he was not able to see out of one of his Eyes for some days And the Petitioner
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therefore most humbly prayed this Court to be pleased to order the Petitioner to be discharged
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forthwith from his said Master and that he might make the Petitioner a Satisfaction suitable
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for the Injury he had so sustained or that this Court might make such other Order in
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the Premisses as to this Court should seem most meet Whereupon it was by an Order
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made by this Court on the said eighth day of April instant Ordered that the said
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should attend this Court on this present Thursday the tenth day of April
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instant at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon to hear and abide the Judgement and Determination
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of this Court touching the Matters contained in the said Petition and the Complaint of the said
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, the aforesaid Session being now on the same day holden by adjournment for
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the said County of Middx Now upon hearing of what was alledged by the said
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and his Council and also by the said
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forasmuch as it appeareth
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to this Court upon Oath that the said
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hath divers times beaten the said
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and given him very immoderate Correction without reasonable Cause and
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that the Substance of the said Petition is true It is Ordered by this Court that the
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