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<p n="362"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50812_geo115">Middlesex</rs>
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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord<lb></lb>
the King holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50812_geo116">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
Sessions house for the said County on Monday the 17th..<lb></lb>
day of July in the Twenty Sixth Year of the Reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain Etc<lb></lb>
Before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n362-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n362-2">Thomas Cogan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n362-3">David<lb></lb>
Walker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n362-4">Thomas Gordon</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50812_occ47">Esquires</rs>
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and others their<lb></lb>
fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to<lb></lb>
keep the peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear<lb></lb>
and determine divers Felonies and other<lb></lb>
Misdemeanours committed in the same County.</p>
<p n="363">Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n363-1">Richard Gurney</rs>
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Hath at this present Session<lb></lb>
Exhibited his Petition and Appeal setting forth That the<lb></lb>
Petitioner was on the 20th. of January 1783 bound Apprentice for<lb></lb>
Seven Years to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n363-2">Joseph Baldwin</rs>
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of Rose Street but since of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50812_geo117">Brick<lb></lb>
Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50812_geo118">Old Street</rs>
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to learn the Art of a Tin plate Worker On the usual<lb></lb>
terms of being found in sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging and a<lb></lb>
Premium of Ten Pounds given But that hehad been only<lb></lb>
Employed in one precarious branch of the said business during the time<lb></lb>
Elapsed and that he verily believed if continued in that branch only he<lb></lb>
should not be property qualified to get a livelihood besides which he<lb></lb>
had been unreasonably beaten and obliged to Work on Sundays that<lb></lb>
he had been very ill fed and with two more Apprentices lodged in one<lb></lb>
Bed with only one Sheet and that unwashed for Eighteen or Twenty Weeks<lb></lb>
together that the Family consisted of the Master and Mistress two<lb></lb>
Brothers five Apprentice Boys and a Girl, that their living had been<lb></lb>
Extremely irregular a great deal of Drinking and ill Example<lb></lb>
That his said Master and Mistress and an Apprentice Girl<lb></lb>
absented themselves on the first day of May last past as the Petitioner<lb></lb>
was informed and believed on Account of Debt that the business<lb></lb>
had been since carried on by and in the name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50812_n363-3">Edward Baldwin</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50812_occ48">Butcher</rs>
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and that he was now less likely to learn his Trade than before<lb></lb>
Whereby the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved and Prayed to</p>
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