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<p n="306">To the Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n306-1">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ64">Esqr</rs>
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. One of His<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ65">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo144">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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and others his Fellows Justices Etc.</p>
<p n="307">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n307-1">John White</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50482_n307-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ66">Apprentice</rs>
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<p n="308"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
</p>
<p n="309">That Your Petitioner was by Indenture of<lb></lb>
apprenticeship bearing date the 8th. day of<lb></lb>
August 1757 bound to One <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n309-1">John Inall</rs>
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late of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo145">Parish of St. Luke</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo146">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ67">Jeweller</rs>
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for the Term of Seven Years And Your<lb></lb>
Petitioners Master Ten Pounds as a Consideration<lb></lb>
And also a Bond to find Your Petitioner in Cloaths<lb></lb>
mending and Washing during the said Term</p>
<p n="310">That when Your Petitioner had Served about a<lb></lb>
year of his Time his Master was Arrested and Confined<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo147">the Fleet</rs>
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Prison for near a Year and afterwards got the<lb></lb>
Rules of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo148">the Fleet</rs>
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and is at this present time a Prisoner where<lb></lb>
Your Petitioner Worked for his said Master during all the said Time</p>
<p n="311">That Your Peticoner was about five Weeks ago<obscured></obscured>
taken very ill of a<lb></lb>
Feaver and the House keeper took no manner of care of Your Petitioner and<lb></lb>
during his illness left Your Petitioner for Two days without any<lb></lb>
Sustenance And the House Keeper then said to Your peticoner<lb></lb>
Your Master was then in the Parlour has Ordered me to give<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
you three Farthings for Your Petitioners Support and said<lb></lb>
She was Ordered by his Master to Acquaint Your Petitioner that<lb></lb>
he must go to his Brother <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n311-1">Edmund White</rs>
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for his Master<lb></lb>
would not provide for him on any Account whatsoever as he<lb></lb>
was Sick And accordingly he went to his Brother who got him<lb></lb>
into Bartholomews Hospital And is now an out Patient<lb></lb>
being very Sick at this time</p>
<p n="312">That during all the time he has Served his said<lb></lb>
Master he has used Your Peticoner very ill and<lb></lb>
frequently in Liquour for affortnight together<lb></lb>
by which means was not capable to give Your<lb></lb>
Peticoner proper Instruccons to learn him his<lb></lb>
Business</p>
<p n="313">Your Peticoner therefore most<lb></lb>
humbly prays Your Worships<lb></lb>
taking the premes into Consideracon<lb></lb>
That You will be pleased to Discharge<lb></lb>
Your Petr from his sd. Master or<lb></lb>
otherwise as to Your Worships shall<lb></lb>
seem meet</p>
<p n="314">And Yor. Petr. as in Duty bound shall ever pray</p>
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