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To the Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50795_n36-1">William<lb></lb>
Mainwaring</rs>
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and the<lb></lb>
rest of his Majesty's Justices in their General <lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="37">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50795_n37-1">Daniel Flannery</rs>
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Son of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50795_n37-2">Patrick Flannery</rs>
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<p n="38"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That your Petitioner with the Consent of his Father<lb></lb>
became Bown'd an Apperentice to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50795_n38-1">John Hope</rs>
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learn the Art<lb></lb>
of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50795_occ16">Shoemaker</rs>
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for the Term of 7 Years as by the Indenture<lb></lb>
Carring date the 2d day of January 1754 Relation being thereunto<lb></lb>
had may more fully and at large Appear</p>
<p n="39">That your Petitioners Father Executed a Written<lb></lb>
Agreement with his said Master to pay him the Sum of<lb></lb>
Twenty One Guineas as an Apprentice Fee Seven Guineas<lb></lb>
part thereof was paid at the time of Executing said Indenture<lb></lb>
the Remaining Fourteen Guineas was Covenanted and agreed<lb></lb>
to be paid by Installments on the 2.d day of January in every<lb></lb>
Succeeding Year till the whole was paid</p>
<p n="40">That your Petitioners said Father being then <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50795_occ17">Chairman<lb></lb>
to the Honurable</rs>
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Countess of Spencer (commonly called Lady<lb></lb>
Spencer ) she humanely and Benevolently undertook to pay the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
said Sum of Twenty one Guineas in the manner above described<lb></lb>
for the Relief and Assistance of your Petitioner in order that he<lb></lb>
might be Instructed and perfected in the said Business</p>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50795_occ18">Apprenticeship</rs>
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his said Master wrote a letter to Lady Spencer <lb></lb>
therein Acguainting her it was in Vain for her Ladyship to advance<lb></lb>
or pay any further sum on Account of your Petitioner and that<lb></lb>
he never would learn the trade, that thereupon her <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50795_occ19">Ladyship</rs>
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withheld her said Bounty</p>
<p n="42">That your Petitioner during the 12 Months he Continued<lb></lb>
with his said Master (who's<obscured></obscured>
) was fed on Hogs lard<lb></lb>
Salt and Water with stale Brown bread, which often Caused him<lb></lb>
to have a fit of illness and become distempered and in a Weak<lb></lb>
low state - Added to that of his Master and Mastress most <lb></lb>
Tlenty and inhumanly beating him on many trivial Occasions<lb></lb>
without any Cause</p>
<p n="43">That</p>
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