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the Right Worshipfull his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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in
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their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the City & Liberty of
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The Humble Petition of
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William Golden
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of the Parish of Saint
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James within the Liberty aforesaid
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Glazier
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Sheweth
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That by Indenture of Apprentiship bearing Date the third Day of July 1749
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Cornelius Edwards
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Son of
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John Edwards
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of Kew Green in the County of Surry
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Gardiner
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did Put himself Apprentice to your Petr. to learn your Petrs. Art & with your Petr.
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after the manner of an
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Apprentice
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to Serve from the Day of the Date of the said
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Indenture for the Term of Seven Years.
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That in the said Indenture the said
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Cornelius Edwards
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did Covenant your Petr.
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faithfully to Serve & that he Should not from your Petrs. Service Day nor Night Absent
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himself as in & by the said Indenture relation being thereunto had may more at large Appear
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That the said
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Cornelius Edward
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Since the Date of his said
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Apprentiship
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hath
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willfully Absented himself diverse & Sundry Days & Nights To the Number of Twenty
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Days & Nights at the least And your Petr. hath of ten times reced him again into Your
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Petrs. Service but he with not Continue therein.
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That the said
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Cornelius Edwards
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hath Several times broke into your Petrs.
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House in the Night time & on or about the 26th-Day of Febry-last in the
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Night time broke into the House of your Petr. & took thereout two Bottles of the &
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Victualls & A Pair of your Petrs. Shoes & after having made a Fire in A Coopers Cellar,
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in your Petrs. House & burnt Several Staves belonging to the Cooper of the Value
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of five Shillings went away & left the said Fire in Such a Manner that your Petrs.
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House as well as all the Neighbourhood might have been burnt down by means
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thereof had the said Fire Spread in the Night time.
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That by the Extreem bad behaviour of the said
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Cornelius Edwards
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your Petr.
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Cannot trust him in his Trade nor in the Names of his Customers whereby your Petr. is
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greatly Injured in his said Trade.
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Your Petr. therefore humbly Prays this Honble Court with
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be Pleased to Order Your Petr. to be discharged from his said
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Indenture of Apprentiship & that the Indenture may be Vacated
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& become Void
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And your Petr. as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray Etc.
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Wm Golden
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