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<p n="2"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
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Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50558_n2-1">John Hunt</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50558_geo4">Parish of Saint James</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50558_geo5">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50558_geo6">Middlesex</rs>
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Complaineth to us<lb></lb>
Two of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the said County<lb></lb>
that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50558_n2-2">Ann Stone</rs>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50558_occ6">Apprentice</rs>
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who became bound to him by<lb></lb>
Indenture dated the Ninth day of June One thousand Seven<lb></lb>
hundred and Sixty one to Serve from the day of the date until<lb></lb>
the full end and Term of Seven Years Hath frequently<lb></lb>
misbehaved herself and several times absented from his Service<lb></lb>
without his Licence and is become very Idle disobedient dishonest<lb></lb>
disorderly and Incorrigible And the said Master therefore prayeth<lb></lb>
that his said Apprentice may be discharged from him. And the<lb></lb>
said Apprentice being now brought before Us and we<lb></lb>
having fully examined the Matter of the said Complaint<lb></lb>
and found the same to be true and it appearing that no<lb></lb>
greater Sum than two Pounds was given upon her binding<lb></lb>
And we being of opinion that the said Master ought<lb></lb>
not to be burthen'd with the said Apprentice Do<lb></lb>
therefore as for as in us lyes absolutely dis<lb></lb>
charge her from her said Apprenticeship Any<lb></lb>
thing in the said Indentures contained to<lb></lb>
the contrary not with standing In Testimony<lb></lb>
Whereof we do hereunto set our Hands & Seals<lb></lb>
the Eighteenth Day of March 1766.</p>
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