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<p n="188">To the Worshipfull Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n188-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50721_occ46">Knt</rs>
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. Chairman<lb></lb>
and others His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50721_occ47">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo199">County of Middlesex</rs>
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now in their General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace Holden at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo200">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo201">Saint<lb></lb>
John Street</rs>
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in and for the said County Assembled</p>
<p n="189">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n189-1">William<lb></lb>
Gogney</rs>
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Son of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n189-2">William Gogney</rs>
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Citizen<lb></lb>
and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50721_occ48">Farrier</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo202">London</rs>
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Deceased</p>
<p n="190"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That Your Petr. was by Indenture of apprenticeship bearing date the 17th<lb></lb>
day of June 1774 bound out an Apprentice by the Governors of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo203">Christ Hospital</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n190-1">Richard Meach</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo204">George's Court Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50721_geo205">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and the Sum of Ten Pounds was given with him to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n190-2">Richard Meach</rs>
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as<lb></lb>
an Apprentice Fee as by the said Indenture when produced will more<lb></lb>
fully appear.</p>
<p n="191">That your Petitioners hath duly and truly served his Time hither to,<lb></lb>
but his said Master hath neglected to Teach and Instruct him property as<lb></lb>
he ought to do, and has lately advertized and Sold off his Tools and Implements<lb></lb>
in Trade and declined his Business and without the Consent of your Petr.<lb></lb>
or his Friends intends to make a property of Your Petitioner and Assign<lb></lb>
him Over to another Person in a different branch for the Consideration<lb></lb>
of £30. which the said person refusing to pay; Your Petitioner<lb></lb>
is likely to be Harrassed and Hawked about from one to another (untill<lb></lb>
his said Master has made his Bargain of him) and thereby lose all<lb></lb>
his further Time of Instruction.</p>
<p n="192">That notwithstanding your Petitioner has but one Year and Seven<lb></lb>
Months to Serve of his Time yet he is not so proficient in his Business as<lb></lb>
he ought to be by Reason of his said Master's Neglecting to Teach and Instruct<lb></lb>
him, And is not Capable when Out of his Time of Earning more than Ten or<lb></lb>
Twelve Shillings instead of Thirty Shillings P Week as he ought to have done<lb></lb>
in case he had been property Instructed.</p>
<p n="193"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">D: J: Bruce<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50721_occ49">Sollr</rs>
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.</note>
<lb></lb>
Your Petitioner for these and other<lb></lb>
Reasons to be Offered therefore most<lb></lb>
humbly Prays your Worships to take his<lb></lb>
Case into Consideration and be placed to<lb></lb>
discharge him from his said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50721_occ50">Apprenticeship</rs>
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<lb></lb>
or make such other Order therein as to Your<lb></lb>
Worships shall meet</p>
<p n="194">And Your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="195"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50721_n195-1">Wm. Gogney</rs>
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