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<p n="16"> <obscured></obscured>
the Right Worshipfull his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65455_occ9">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65455_geo8">Westminster</rs>
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Assembled.</p>
<p n="17">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65455_n17-1">William Golden</rs>
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of the Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
James within the Liberty aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65455_occ10">Glazier</rs>
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<p n="18"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That by Indenture of Apprentiship bearing Date the third Day of July 1749<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65455_n18-1">Cornelius Edwards</rs>
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Son of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65455_n18-2">John Edwards</rs>
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of Kew Green in the County of Surry <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65455_occ11">Gardiner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
did Put himself Apprentice to your Petr. to learn your Petrs. Art & with your Petr.<lb></lb>
after the manner of an <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65455_occ12">Apprentice</rs>
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to Serve from the Day of the Date of the said<lb></lb>
Indenture for the Term of Seven Years.</p>
<p n="19">That in the said Indenture the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65455_n19-1">Cornelius Edwards</rs>
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did Covenant your Petr.<lb></lb>
faithfully to Serve & that he Should not from your Petrs. Service Day nor Night Absent<lb></lb>
himself as in & by the said Indenture relation being thereunto had may more at large Appear</p>
<p n="20">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65455_n20-1">Cornelius Edward</rs>
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Since the Date of his said <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65455_occ13">Apprentiship</rs>
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hath<lb></lb>
willfully Absented himself diverse & Sundry Days & Nights To the Number of Twenty<lb></lb>
Days & Nights at the least And your Petr. hath of ten times reced him again into Your<lb></lb>
Petrs. Service but he with not Continue therein.</p>
<p n="21">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65455_n21-1">Cornelius Edwards</rs>
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hath Several times broke into your Petrs.<lb></lb>
House in the Night time & on or about the 26th-Day of Febry-last in the<lb></lb>
Night time broke into the House of your Petr. & took thereout two Bottles of the &<lb></lb>
Victualls & A Pair of your Petrs. Shoes & after having made a Fire in A Coopers Cellar,<lb></lb>
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in your Petrs. House & burnt Several Staves belonging to the Cooper of the Value<lb></lb>
of five Shillings went away & left the said Fire in Such a Manner that your Petrs.<lb></lb>
House as well as all the Neighbourhood might have been burnt down by means<lb></lb>
thereof had the said Fire Spread in the Night time.</p>
<p n="22">That by the Extreem bad behaviour of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65455_n22-1">Cornelius Edwards</rs>
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your Petr.<lb></lb>
Cannot trust him in his Trade nor in the Names of his Customers whereby your Petr. is<lb></lb>
greatly Injured in his said Trade.</p>
<p n="23">Your Petr. therefore humbly Prays this Honble Court with<lb></lb>
be Pleased to Order Your Petr. to be discharged from his said<lb></lb>
Indenture of Apprentiship & that the Indenture may be Vacated<lb></lb>
& become Void</p>
<p n="24">And your Petr. as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray Etc.</p>
<p n="25"> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65455_n25-1">Wm Golden</rs>
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