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<p n="4">To <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65444_n4-1">his Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65444_occ2">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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Assembled<lb></lb>
at the Quarter Sessions held in and for the City<lb></lb>
and <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65444_geo5">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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<p n="5">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65444_n5-1">Robert Pyle</rs>
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<p n="6"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That by Indre dated ye. 18th: day of Octor. in the Year of<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Lord 1743 Your Petr: did put himself Apprentice to <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65444_n6-1">Joseph Francis</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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ons late of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65444_geo6">Parish of St. Ann</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65444_geo7">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Linner<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
learn his Art & him to serve for the Space of Seven Years from<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
date of the sd. Indenture.</p>
<p n="7">And the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65444_n7-1">Joseph Francis</rs>
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Nollekens in Consideration of<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Sum of thirty pounds in the sd. Indre mentioned Did Agree to<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
each & instruct or Cause his sd. Apprentice to be taught & instructed<lb></lb>
to his sd. Art of a Limner And to find his sd. Apprentice with Meat<lb></lb>
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& Lodging during the sd. Term As in & by One part of the sd.<lb></lb>
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under the Hand & Seal of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65444_n7-2">Joseph Francis</rs>
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Nollekens<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
ecuted & in your Petr: Custody ready to be produced will<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="8">That your Petr. did diligently & faithfully Serve his said<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
as his Apprentice According to the Covente. of his sd. Indre<lb></lb>
soon after Christmas Last when his sd. Mar. departed this<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65444_n8-1">Mary Ann</rs>
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Nollekens his <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65444_occ3">Widow</rs>
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And during such<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
your Petr. under his sd. Master's Instructions became<lb></lb>
Proficient in the Ground Works but wanted to Learn & was<lb></lb>
instructed in the finishing part of the sd Art.</p>
<p n="9">That upon the Death of your Petrs. sd. Mar. his sd. Widow was<lb></lb>
part of Carrying on her sd. Husband's Art or Profession Nor did<lb></lb>
she Employ any Person under her Capable thereof or for such Purpose<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
by your Petr. is left destitute of any Mar. or instructor for the<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
of the sd. Term wch will be 2 Yrs. from the Month of Octor. next.</p>
<p n="10">Your Petr. therefore most humbly prays your Worships<lb></lb>
that he may be discharged from the sd. Indre Or that the<lb></lb>
sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65444_n10-1">Mary Ann</rs>
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Nollekens may Either provide Another<lb></lb>
fit Mar. for your Petr. & turn him over to him for the<lb></lb>
Renr. of the sd. Term at her own Expence Or may be<lb></lb>
obliged to refund & pay back such Proportion of the<lb></lb>
sd Com Money paid wth. your Petr. As for that<lb></lb>
Purpose to your Worships shall Seem meet.</p>
<p n="11">And your Petr. (as in duty bound) shall Ever pray Etc.</p>
<p n="12"> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65444_n12-1">Robert Pyle</rs>
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