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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord
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the King holden in and for the
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day of July in the Twenty Sixth Year of the Reign of our
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Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain Etc
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and others their
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fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to
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keep the peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear
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and determine divers Felonies and other
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Richard Gurney
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Hath at this present Session
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Exhibited his Petition and Appeal setting forth That the
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Petitioner was on the 20th. of January 1783 bound Apprentice for
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Seven Years to
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Joseph Baldwin
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of Rose Street but since of
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to learn the Art of a Tin plate Worker On the usual
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terms of being found in sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging and a
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Premium of Ten Pounds given But that hehad been only
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Employed in one precarious branch of the said business during the time
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Elapsed and that he verily believed if continued in that branch only he
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should not be property qualified to get a livelihood besides which he
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had been unreasonably beaten and obliged to Work on Sundays that
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he had been very ill fed and with two more Apprentices lodged in one
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Bed with only one Sheet and that unwashed for Eighteen or Twenty Weeks
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together that the Family consisted of the Master and Mistress two
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Brothers five Apprentice Boys and a Girl, that their living had been
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Extremely irregular a great deal of Drinking and ill Example
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That his said Master and Mistress and an Apprentice Girl
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absented themselves on the first day of May last past as the Petitioner
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was informed and believed on Account of Debt that the business
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had been since carried on by and in the name of
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and that he was now less likely to learn his Trade than before
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Whereby the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved and Prayed to
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