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<p n="829">To the Right Honble <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ278">Sr.</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n829-1">William Stephenson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ279">Knt</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ280">Lord Mayor</rs>
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, and To the Honourable the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ281">Justices of Oyer and Terminer</rs>
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and General Gaol<lb></lb>
Delivery of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo447">Newgate</rs>
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holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo448">City of London</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo449">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in Session Assembled.</p>
<p n="830">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n830-1">Abraham Stephens</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Most humbly Sheweth.</p>
<p n="831">That Your Petitioner was in the Month of February<lb></lb>
Committed to His Majesty's Gaol of Newgate by<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n831-1">Benja. Cowley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ282">Esqr.</rs>
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one of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ283">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo450">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Charged on Oath<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n831-2">Elizabeth</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ284">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n831-3">Henry Newman</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n831-4">Joseph<lb></lb>
Cox</rs>
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for receiving from the said Elizabeth an Ounce<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
an half of a Piedmont Silk knowing the same to be Stolen<lb></lb>
of Which Charge your Petitioner Cons vows of his<lb></lb>
Innocence doubts not but on his Trial to make the<lb></lb>
same Evidently Appear to the satisfaction of this Honble.<lb></lb>
Court.</p>
<p n="832">That this present Session is the third Since his<lb></lb>
Committed and that last Session in Expectation of<lb></lb>
being Tryed he had at a Considerable Expence prepared<lb></lb>
for the Same, that Since his Confinement he had undergone<lb></lb>
great hardship throt Sickness and poverty having Shipt<lb></lb>
himself of all. and almost tired his friends in their<lb></lb>
Support of him. and Strou'd he by any Means, be further<lb></lb>
detained, his friends may desert him, when he must<lb></lb>
inevitably perish.</p>
<p n="833">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly<lb></lb>
Implores Your Lordship and this Honble<lb></lb>
Court, that he may at this present Session<lb></lb>
make his Innocence appear by a Trial for<lb></lb>
the above supposed fact. Orbe Bailed or<lb></lb>
discharged.</p>
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