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<p n="151">To the Rt. Honble <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n151-1">Francis Child</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ72">Esqr</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ73">Lord Mayor</rs>
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: of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo88">City of London</rs>
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<p n="152">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n152-1">Catherine Smith</rs>
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<p n="153"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner was last Sessions found Guilty of<lb></lb>
Stealing Remnant of Muslin, to the Vallue of 4s:10d</p>
<p n="154">That your Petitioner is a<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Small Children Lives in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo89">Worcestershire</rs>
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, and came to London<lb></lb>
to Endeavour to place out Two of them</p>
<p n="155">That your Petitioner Never was before any<lb></lb>
Magistrate in her Life for any Ill Act (the above Excepted) But<lb></lb>
always took Honest and Industrious Measurer to Maintain her Children<lb></lb>
since the Death of late Husband.</p>
<p n="156">Your Petitioner therefore humbly Pray's Your Lordship<lb></lb>
to have Compassion on her poor Infants, And Order her to be otherwayes<lb></lb>
Punished and not Transported, She having Very Sufficient Persons<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
be Bound for her Fu<obscured></obscured>
ire behaviour</p>
<p n="157">And Your Petitioner As in Duty bound will Ever Pray Etc</p>
<p n="158"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n158-1">Cath Smith</rs>
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<p n="159">Wee the Underwritten who had the Honour to Serve Your Lordshipp on the Jury for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo90">City of London</rs>
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Last Sessions being bound by our Oath to go according to Evidence, could not do otherwise than bring This<lb></lb>
Pentioner in Guilty; But having since had an Honest Character of her, and been Informed (That the<lb></lb>
Contents of the above Peticon is True, If your Lordshipp will be pleased to punish her according to the Prayer<lb></lb>
of the said peticon; Your Lordshipp will verymuch ObligeMy Lord</p>
<p n="160">Your very hum:den<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="161"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n161-1">Thos Eden</rs>
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<p n="162"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n162-1">James Allen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n162-2">Tho Bayly</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n162-3">Wm Stevens</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n162-4">John Davis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n162-5">Christor: Ford</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n162-6">Wm: Abbott</rs>
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<p n="163"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n163-1">Tho: Burrough</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n163-2">James Greene</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n163-3">Henry Aukin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n163-4">John dalton</rs>
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