| Description | Petition of James Woodfen, tailor, who had lived in the City 40 years and was apprenticed to Randle Asbrooke, a freeman of the City and Company but the contract was broken and he was transferred to another master, Matthew Smallwood, who lived in Foreste Streete, but who was not a freeman. He has been sued over a period of 20 years, fined, and in the last year imprisoned. Suits have been brought against his customers. He asks to be admitted. |