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Justices of the Peace
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for the
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County of Middlesex
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The Humble Petition of
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Joseph White
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Sheweth
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That Your Petitioner above five Years agoe was Put
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Apprentice
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James Kendrick
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of
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Lambeth Street
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Goodmansfields
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Watchmaker
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That Your Petitioner being for Sometime before Instructed in
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a Branch of the said Trade Did in the first two Years of his
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said Apprenticeship become a Usefull Servant and could
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Earn fourteen shillings a Week for his Said Master
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That tho' Your Petitioner is now 19 Years Old, He hath
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Allowed him only By his Master a Half penny Roll and Butter
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of a Morning for Breadfast, Meat about twice a Week, And that
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in very Small Quantities for Dinner, And which is cut out for
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him, And greatly stiuted in the Same, And three half penny worth
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of Cheese Amongst 4 Persons at Night for Supper and no more
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That there is no small Beer Kept in the Family from the
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Brewers But Supplyed By a
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Chandlers shop
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And not two Quarts
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in the Day to be Divided Amongst tow Apprentices One Servant
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Maid And the Son of the said Mr. Kendrick
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That Your Petitioner has been so Nupoverished in his
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Living That He hath requested the said Mr. Kendrick his Master
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to Sett him Board himself And Offerrs so to do And to give his
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Master half his Earnings per Week Besides Boarding himself
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But his said Master refutes the Same
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Your Petitionr: Therefore humbly Prays That
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His said Master may Attend Your Worships on this
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Petition That Your Petitioner may for the reasons
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aforesaid be discharged from his Mdres of Apprenticeship
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And he will Ever pray Etc
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Jospeh White
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