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<p n="212">To <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15022_occ98">the Rt: Honble</rs>
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: <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15022_occ99">Sr</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15022_n212-1">Gilbert Heathcoate</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15022_n212-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15022_occ100">Knt</rs>
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: <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15022_occ101">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15022_geo149">Citty of London</rs>
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and to the Worppfull the rest of her Maties: <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15022_occ102">Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace</rs>
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within the same Citty in the Generall Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
assembled.</p>
<p n="213">The humble Peticon of the Churchwardens and<lb></lb>
Overseers of the poor of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15022_geo150">St. Buttolph<lb></lb>
Aldersgate</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15022_geo151">London</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="214"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth.</note>
<lb></lb>
That One <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15022_n214-1">Elizabeth Hopkins</rs>
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being about 76 Yeares of<lb></lb>
age and haveing been an Inhabitant in yor. Petrs Parish<lb></lb>
for severall yeares last past is reduced to great Necessity<lb></lb>
and poverty and now become burthensome to yor Petrs. said<lb></lb>
Parish and notwithstanding one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15022_n214-2">Thomas Paine</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15022_n214-2" type="surname" value="Paine"></interp>
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who<lb></lb>
married the said Hopkins Daughter is of goods substance<lb></lb>
and Ability and ought by Law to provided for his said<lb></lb>
mother and not burthen yor Petrs said parish with<lb></lb>
the Charge thereof get the refuses soe to doe altho he<lb></lb>
hath been thereof required.</p>
<p n="215">Wherefore yor Petr. humbly pray<lb></lb>
yor. Lordship and Worpps to heare them in the<lb></lb>
Prmisses and also order the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15022_n215-1">Thomas Paine</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to appeare before you and shew cause why he<lb></lb>
should not provided for his said Mother as the<lb></lb>
Law in that Case directs and also to hear ad<lb></lb>
abide the determinacon of yor Lordship and <lb></lb>
Worpps therein.</p>
<p n="216">And Yr Petrs, shall ever pray Etc.</p>
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