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To the Right Honble
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Lord Mayor
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, and To the Honourable the
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Justices of Oyer and Terminer
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and General Gaol
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Delivery of
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Newgate
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holden for the
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in Session Assembled.
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The humble Petition of
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Abraham Stephens
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Most humbly Sheweth.
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That Your Petitioner was in the Month of February
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Committed to His Majesty's Gaol of Newgate by
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Benja. Cowley
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Esqr.
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one of His Majesty's
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Justices of the
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Charged on Oath
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of
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Elizabeth
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the
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of
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Henry Newman
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Joseph
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Cox
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for receiving from the said Elizabeth an Ounce
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an half of a Piedmont Silk knowing the same to be Stolen
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of Which Charge your Petitioner Cons vows of his
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Innocence doubts not but on his Trial to make the
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same Evidently Appear to the satisfaction of this Honble.
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Court.
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That this present Session is the third Since his
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Committed and that last Session in Expectation of
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being Tryed he had at a Considerable Expence prepared
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for the Same, that Since his Confinement he had undergone
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great hardship throt Sickness and poverty having Shipt
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himself of all. and almost tired his friends in their
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Support of him. and Strou'd he by any Means, be further
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detained, his friends may desert him, when he must
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inevitably perish.
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly
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Implores Your Lordship and this Honble
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Court, that he may at this present Session
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make his Innocence appear by a Trial for
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the above supposed fact. Orbe Bailed or
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discharged.
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