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<p n="29">To the Honble. Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65393_n29-1">John Gonson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and the rest of the Honble. the<lb></lb>
Bench of Justices.</p>
<p n="30">The humble Petition of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65393_n30-1">Willm. Hancock</rs>
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Elizth. his Wife<lb></lb>
& <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65393_n30-2">Henry Hancock</rs>
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their Son.</p>
<p n="31"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth.</note>
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That your Petitioner <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65393_n31-1">Henry Hancock</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
on the first Day of May 1729 bound <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65393_occ18">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65393_n31-2">Edwd. Bevan</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65393_occ19">Bricklayer</rs>
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for Seven Years from thence seat Ensuing & that your<lb></lb>
petr. his faithfully Serve this the Master untill Sir Master left his<lb></lb>
House & Business in Towne & Retired Somewhere to your Petitioner<lb></lb>
unknown and afterwards in Expectation of his Return with his Wife<lb></lb>
untill such time which Wife turne put of Doors & bid to take Care of<lb></lb>
himself for that her Husband <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65393_n31-3">Edwd. Bevan</rs>
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for she neither could nor<lb></lb>
Would she was Care of your Petr.is a Apprentice.</p>
<p n="32">And that your Petr. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65393_n32-1">Wm. Hancock</rs>
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who is a<lb></lb>
poor Sickley than Wm. Sr. Beven a Bond that his Sd. Son Should John<lb></lb>
out. And to find he in Newbury Apparell during sd. Time all<lb></lb>
which they were Petr. & Willing on their Parts (as they had hitherto) to<lb></lb>
Continue to Convey with. But by sd. Bevans leaving & turning him<lb></lb>
off as aforesaid is unable so to do with sd. Bevan & in less Discharged<lb></lb>
cannot set his Bread will and other Master.</p>
<p n="33">Wherefore Your Petitioners most<lb></lb>
Humbly Pray in Consideration of their unhappy<lb></lb>
Circumstances That they may be Respectively<lb></lb>
Relived the Father from his Bond & the Son<lb></lb>
from the Indentures aforesaid, So that he may be<lb></lb>
Worsped there from & at Liberty to get another<lb></lb>
Master And Your, Petitioners Shall<lb></lb>
Ever Pray Etc.</p>
<p n="34"> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65393_n34-1">Henry Williams</rs>
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.</p>
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