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Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled
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The Humble Petition of
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner with the Consent of his Father
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became Bown'd an Apperentice to
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learn the Art
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for the Term of 7 Years as by the Indenture
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Carring date the 2d day of January 1754 Relation being thereunto
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had may more fully and at large Appear
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That your Petitioners Father Executed a Written
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Agreement with his said Master to pay him the Sum of
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Twenty One Guineas as an Apprentice Fee Seven Guineas
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part thereof was paid at the time of Executing said Indenture
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the Remaining Fourteen Guineas was Covenanted and agreed
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to be paid by Installments on the 2.d day of January in every
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Succeeding Year till the whole was paid
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That your Petitioners said Father being then
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Chairman
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to the Honurable
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Countess of Spencer (commonly called Lady
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Spencer ) she humanely and Benevolently undertook to pay the
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said Sum of Twenty one Guineas in the manner above described
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for the Relief and Assistance of your Petitioner in order that he
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might be Instructed and perfected in the said Business
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That before the Expiration of the first year of his
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his said Master wrote a letter to Lady Spencer
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therein Acguainting her it was in Vain for her Ladyship to advance
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or pay any further sum on Account of your Petitioner and that
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he never would learn the trade, that thereupon her
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withheld her said Bounty
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That your Petitioner during the 12 Months he Continued
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with his said Master (who's
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Salt and Water with stale Brown bread, which often Caused him
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to have a fit of illness and become distempered and in a Weak
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low state - Added to that of his Master and Mastress most
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Tlenty and inhumanly beating him on many trivial Occasions
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without any Cause
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That
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