Middlesex .

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord
the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex at the
Sessions house for the said County on Monday the 17th..
day of July in the Twenty Sixth Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain Etc
Before William Mainwaring< no role > Thomas Cogan< no role > , David
Walker< no role > , Thomas Gordon< no role > Esquires and others their
fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to
keep the peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear
and determine divers Felonies and other
Misdemeanours committed in the same County.

Whereas Richard Gurney< no role > Hath at this present Session
Exhibited his Petition and Appeal setting forth That the
Petitioner was on the 20th. of January 1783 bound Apprentice for
Seven Years to Joseph Baldwin< no role > of Rose Street but since of Brick
Lane Old Street to learn the Art of a Tin plate Worker On the usual
terms of being found in sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging and a
Premium of Ten Pounds given But that hehad been only
Employed in one precarious branch of the said business during the time
Elapsed and that he verily believed if continued in that branch only he
should not be property qualified to get a livelihood besides which he
had been unreasonably beaten and obliged to Work on Sundays that
he had been very ill fed and with two more Apprentices lodged in one
Bed with only one Sheet and that unwashed for Eighteen or Twenty Weeks
together that the Family consisted of the Master and Mistress two
Brothers five Apprentice Boys and a Girl, that their living had been
Extremely irregular a great deal of Drinking and ill Example
That his said Master and Mistress and an Apprentice Girl
absented themselves on the first day of May last past as the Petitioner
was informed and believed on Account of Debt that the business
had been since carried on by and in the name of Edward Baldwin< no role > a
Butcher and that he was now less likely to learn his Trade than before
Whereby the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved and Prayed to