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<p n="333"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15047_n333-1">Samuel Harford</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15047_n333-2">Elizabeth Sancoe</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15047_n333-3">Rebecca Sancoe</rs>
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<p n="334">The the Right Honourable Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15047_n334-1">John Thompson</rs>
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Lord Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15047_geo204">City of London</rs>
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<p n="335">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15047_n335-1">Elizabeth Sancoe</rs>
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now a prisoner in the<lb></lb>
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<p n="336"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That Your Petitioner hath been confined ever since September Sessions last at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15047_occ130">Prosecution</rs>
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of one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15047_n336-1">John Amson</rs>
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and that Your Petitioner and the other Defendants came upon<lb></lb>
their Tryal at the last Sessions of the peace at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15047_geo207">Guildhall</rs>
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for a forceable Entry and taking any<lb></lb>
Goods and Assaulting the Prosecutor Wife.</p>
<p n="337">That the Court was then pleased to direct all parties to execute General Releases<lb></lb>
and the Defendant Harford to Deliver the said Amson all the Goods upon Oath that were not<lb></lb>
continued in the Inventory of Distress by him made And the said Amson did thereupon<lb></lb>
receive his papers and other Goods as in the Affidavit annexed is mentioned but the Court<lb></lb>
being adjourned before the Affidavit annexed could be made the said Amson now refuses to<lb></lb>
discharge your Petitioner although he hath received his Goods and hath had Notice and a<lb></lb>
Copy of such Affidavit and although General Releases were then executed which General<lb></lb>
Releases were deposited in the hands of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15047_n337-1">James Atkinson</rs>
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one of the Serjeants at Mace of the<lb></lb>
Said City and which he now refuses also to deliver to your Petitioner whereby your Petitioner<lb></lb>
and her Child another of the above Defendants are reduced to the utmost extreamily<lb></lb>
and want</p>
<p n="338">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Prays That in<lb></lb>
tender Consideration of the Premisses your Lordship with please<lb></lb>
to grant an Order to discharge her from her grevious<lb></lb>
Confinement or to afford her such other relief as to your<lb></lb>
great Wisdom shall seem meet</p>
<p n="339">And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray Etc.</p>
<p n="340"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15047_n340-1">Eliz. Sancoe</rs>
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