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<p n="259">To <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n259-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ87">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ88">Chairman</rs>
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And the rest<lb></lb>
of his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ89">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo239">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="260">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n260-1">Joseph White</rs>
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<p n="261"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That Your Petitioner above five Years agoe was Put<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ90">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n261-1">James Kendrick</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50572_geo240">Lambeth Street</rs>
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Goodmansfields<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ91">Watchmaker</rs>
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<p n="262">That Your Petitioner being for Sometime before Instructed in<lb></lb>
a Branch of the said Trade Did in the first two Years of his<lb></lb>
said Apprenticeship become a Usefull Servant and could<lb></lb>
Earn fourteen shillings a Week for his Said Master</p>
<p n="263">That tho' Your Petitioner is now 19 Years Old, He hath<lb></lb>
Allowed him only By his Master a Half penny Roll and Butter<lb></lb>
of a Morning for Breadfast, Meat about twice a Week, And that<lb></lb>
in very Small Quantities for Dinner, And which is cut out for<lb></lb>
him, And greatly stiuted in the Same, And three half penny worth<lb></lb>
of Cheese Amongst 4 Persons at Night for Supper and no more</p>
<p n="264">That there is no small Beer Kept in the Family from the<lb></lb>
Brewers But Supplyed By a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50572_occ92">Chandlers shop</rs>
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And not two Quarts<lb></lb>
in the Day to be Divided Amongst tow Apprentices One Servant<lb></lb>
Maid And the Son of the said Mr. Kendrick</p>
<p n="265">That Your Petitioner has been so Nupoverished in his<lb></lb>
Living That He hath requested the said Mr. Kendrick his Master<lb></lb>
to Sett him Board himself And Offerrs so to do And to give his<lb></lb>
Master half his Earnings per Week Besides Boarding himself<lb></lb>
But his said Master refutes the Same</p>
<p n="266">Your Petitionr: Therefore humbly Prays That<lb></lb>
His said Master may Attend Your Worships on this<lb></lb>
Petition That Your Petitioner may for the reasons<lb></lb>
aforesaid be discharged from his Mdres of Apprenticeship</p>
<p n="267">And he will Ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="268"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50572_n268-1">Jospeh White</rs>
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