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in order to fill his Belly otherwise he verily believes before this time he must
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have starved and hath often paid 6 or seven Shillings at a time for it which
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his Father in Law has always given him so to do, and that when his said
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Master and Mistress had three apprentices which was about three years they
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made them all three lay together in one bed in a small Cock Loft and were never
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allowed to have a Chamber Pot in the Loft and were always obliged to
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make water out at the Window That the Petitioners said Master being a
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Person very much addicted to drinking he often staying out till twelve one two
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three & four o' Clock in the morning when the Petitioners said Mistress used
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always to send him and the other apprentices every night when so out
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(which has some times been six or seven nights together) to all the public
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Houses in Holborn and
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the Strand
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and all round the neighbourhood
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and it is very seldom they can find him and when the public Houses are
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shut up he then goes to the Watch House where they are sure to find him
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and it is often Impossible to get him home and are always obliged to sit
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up till he does come home notwithstanding which they are often obliged to
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be up at four five and six o' Clock in the Morning to their writing and often
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have only two or three hours rest and praying to be discharged from his
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apprenticeship Etc which said Appeal stood duly adjourned unto this Day
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Now upon hearing the said Appeal in the presence and hearing of the said
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Petitioner Francis Le Strange and the said
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George Freeland
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and what hath
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been alledged by them their respective Council and Witnesses in and converning
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the premises and It appearing to this Court that the substance of the said Petition is
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true It is ordered by the Court that the said Francis Le Strange be and he is
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hereby absolutely discharged from his apprenticeship to the said
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In Testimony whereof we four of the said Justices present in the said Session
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at the making of the said Order of discharge as aforesaid Have hereunto set our
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hands and Seals the twenty fourth day of June-in the eighteenth year of the
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reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc and
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in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight
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