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<p n="248">To the Worshipfull the Chairman and the Rest of the Justices<lb></lb>
Assembled at the General Quarter Session of the Peace now holden at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50389_geo179">Hicks<lb></lb>
Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50389_geo180">St John Street</rs>
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in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50389_geo181">County of Middlesex</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="249">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50389_n249-1">John Tristram</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="250">Sheweth<lb></lb>
That your Petr. being a poor Person was at the Age of Thirteen Yrs.<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50389_date37">fourth Day of August One Thousand Seven hundred and Forty two</rs>
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<lb></lb>
by are with the Convent of the then Church Wardens and Overseers of the<lb></lb>
poor of the parish of Saint Luke in this County bound to Thomas Barnf<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of the said Parish and County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50389_occ84">Butcher</rs>
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to Serve him as an Apprentice<lb></lb>
until your Petr. Should attain the Age of Twenty four years to learn<lb></lb>
the Art and Mistary of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50389_occ85">Butcher</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="251">That soon after the time of your Petrs. being so bound an Apprentice<lb></lb>
until this time the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50389_n251-1">Thomas Barnfather</rs>
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hath frequently in a Cruel<lb></lb>
and Barbarows manner Boat and threatned your Petitioners life and<lb></lb>
hath Declared that he never will instruct or learn your Petr. his Trade<lb></lb>
or Business of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50389_occ86">Butcher</rs>
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and that on Monday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50389_date38">Third of October inst</rs>
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<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the said Barnfather being <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50389_occ87">one of the Constables</rs>
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of the said Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Luke without any Cause or Authority whatsoever put your Petitioner<lb></lb>
into the Cage belonging to the said Parish and kept him all Night<lb></lb>
Confined in the Cold the Endangering your Petitioners life</p>
<p n="252">Your Petitioner therefore humbly Prays<lb></lb>
that he may be discharged from his said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50389_occ88">Apprenticeship</rs>
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<lb></lb>
or that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50389_n252-1">Thomas Barnfather</rs>
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may by Order<lb></lb>
of this Court be Compelled to turn your Petitioner<lb></lb>
over for the Remainder of the time to come of the<lb></lb>
said Indenture to some Person of the same Trade<lb></lb>
that is Capable of Instructing your Petr. there<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="253">And Your Petrs. as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray.</p>
<p n="254">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50389_n254-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Tristram</rs>
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mark</p>
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