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<p n="354">To his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50812_occ45">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50812_geo107">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Assembled in Sessions</p>
<p n="355">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n355-1">Richard Gurney</rs>
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<p n="356"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That Your Petitioner was on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50812_geo108">20th of<lb></lb>
January</rs>
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1783 Bound Apprentice for Seven Years to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n356-1">Joseph Baldwin</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50812_geo109">Rose Street</rs>
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, but since of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50812_geo110">Brick Lane<lb></lb>
Old Street</rs>
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, to learn the Art of a Tin plate worker<lb></lb>
On the Usual Terms of being found in sufficient Meal<lb></lb>
Drink and Lodging and a Premium of Ten Pounds<lb></lb>
Given, But your Petitioner has been only employed in<lb></lb>
One Precurious branch of the said Business during the<lb></lb>
time Elapsed, and he verity believes if Continued in that<lb></lb>
branch only he shall not be property Qualified to get a<lb></lb>
livelihood, besides which he has been unreasonably<lb></lb>
Beaten and Obliged to work on Sundays, he has been<lb></lb>
very ill sed and with two more Apprentices lodged in One<lb></lb>
Bed, with only one Sheet and that unwashed for Eighteen<lb></lb>
or Twenty weeks together, The Family consisted of the<lb></lb>
Master and Mistress, his two Brothers, five Apprentice Boys<lb></lb>
and a Girl, their living has been extremly irregular, a great<lb></lb>
Deal of Drinking and ill example, Your Petitioner<lb></lb>
further Represents that his said Master and Mistress<lb></lb>
and an Apprentice Girl Absented themselves on the first<lb></lb>
day of May last past, as your Petitioner is informed<lb></lb>
and believes on Account of Debt, the Business is since<lb></lb>
Carried On by and in the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n356-2">Edward Baldwin</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
Butcher whereby your Petitioner is less likely to learn his<lb></lb>
Trade than before</p>
<p n="357">Therefore Your Petitioner most Humbly Prays<lb></lb>
to be Discharged from his said Master in Order<lb></lb>
to get himself a better place, And Your Petitioner<lb></lb>
will Ever Prayer</p>
<p n="358"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n358-1">James Payn</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50812_occ46">Attorney</rs>
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for the Petitioner</p>
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