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To the Honourable Sr:
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William
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Kt. Recorder of London
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The Humble Petition of
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John Glover
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Most Humbly Sheweth
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That your Petitioner
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was in March Sessions last Indicted for Stealins
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from his Master to whom he was an Apprentice
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one Copper Sea tittle & Coffee pot, & was brought
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in guilty to the oaling of 10d
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That your Petitiones Master did
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not miss the sd things out of his Shop before your
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Petitioner Six months after the fact done did
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thro remove of Conscience voluntarily make it
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known to his said Master, which when your
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Petitioner was tryed by Mr. JusticesDenton
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& the verdict brought in by the Jury, his sd Mastr
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did own in Court & beg'd of the honble Court that
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your Petitioner might not be Transported, but
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have Corporall punishment inflicted on him
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Your Petitioner is a youth born of Honest &
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Reputable Parents in this City, & till ye Commission
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of this Fact was never of guilty of a Creme of the
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like nature
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I beg leave to
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recomend this as
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a case worthy the
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Compassion of the
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Your Petitioner humbly Prays
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that your honrs goodness will be pleased to remitt
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the Sentence of Transportation, & inflict
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what other punishmt. your Honr. shall think fit
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And in Duty bound shall ever pray Etc
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We whose hands are hereunto Set believing the Contents of this Petition to be true
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& knowing yr Petitioner, do in all humility recomond him as an Object worthy
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your Honours Favour, & are ready to be bound for his future good behaviour
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Joseph Hall
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