Extracted from the General Sessions held at Bridgewater the 17th, 18th, and 19th days of September, 14 James (1616), before Sir Robert Phelippes, Sir Nicholas Halswell, Sir Edward Hext,Sir Francis Heale, Knts., Edward Rogers, Thomas Warre, George Lutterell, Edward Popham, Nathanael Still, James Bisse, Christopher Preston, Thomas Brereton, and Robert Cufie, Esquires.
On a petition from William Gunnell that his son Robert was a year sithence bound apprentice for seven years to Thomas Coombes of Trucketts hill in Nunney, a musician ; but that the said Coombes being in debt hath left this County and gone into service, so that Robert Gunnell is left upon the charge of his father who is a poore Almes man in the Almes house of Wells : Ordered that the said Robert be discharged of his apprenticeship and be free to enter the service of another person.
