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<p n="10">To the Right Honourable Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15051_n10-1">John Salter</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15051_occ10">Knight</rs>
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Lord<lb></lb>
Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15051_geo10">City of London</rs>
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and to the Recorder of the said City<lb></lb>
and also to the rest of the Worshipfull Justices of the Peace within<lb></lb>
the said City in their General Session of the Peace assembled</p>
<p n="11">The humble Petiton of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15051_n11-1">Barbara Clarke</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15051_occ11">Widow</rs>
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<p n="12"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That Your Petitioner presented one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15051_n12-1">William Medland</rs>
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for Grossly<lb></lb>
Assaulting your Petitioner and in December Session last he was Convicted of<lb></lb>
the said Assault and the Court Continued him upon his Recognizance' till<lb></lb>
January Session and Ordered him in the mean Time to make your Petitioner<lb></lb>
Satisfaction and in Obedience to the said Order Your Petitioner delivered the sd:<lb></lb>
Mr. Medland two little Bills of the Expences your Petitioner hath been put to<lb></lb>
in this Prosecution and in Order to delay the Payment of them He moved<lb></lb>
by Councel at the last Session for a longer Time to pay the Money in and the<lb></lb>
Court ordered him to be Continued upon his Recognizance till this Present Session but Intend of<lb></lb>
Offering to pay your Petitioners Expences as Your Lordship and the Honourable Court directed him He often Abuses your<lb></lb>
Petitioner by Calling your Petitioner Old Bitch and so forth and gives out<lb></lb>
in the neighbourhood he'll pay the old Bitch nothing</p>
<p n="13">Your Petitioner is a Poor Woman and the Times very hard upon her<lb></lb>
The said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15051_n13-1">William Medland</rs>
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belongs to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15051_geo11">the India House</rs>
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which brings him<lb></lb>
in 12s. a Week and is also by Trade a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15051_occ12">Taylor</rs>
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his Wife is a Hoop Petticoat<lb></lb>
maker and are both in a good Way of getting Money</p>
<p n="14">Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays your<lb></lb>
Lordship and Worships will give your Petitioner<lb></lb>
such Relief in the Premisses at this present Session<lb></lb>
as your Lordship and Worships shall seem meet</p>
<p n="15">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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Clarke</rs>
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