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<p n="35">To the Right Honourable <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15058_n35-1">William Benn</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ21">Esquire</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ22">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo35">City of London</rs>
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and the rest of the<lb></lb>
Worshipfull his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ23">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the said City at the General Session of the Peace<lb></lb>
assembled</p>
<p n="36">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15058_n36-1">Thomas Branstone</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo36">St. Giles without Cripplegate</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ24">Cooper</rs>
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<p n="37"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15058_n37-1">John Blackford</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ25">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ26">Alderman</rs>
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of the Ward of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo37">Cripplegate</rs>
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without Dated the 20th. day of April last<lb></lb>
your Petitioner was Appointed and Confirmed one of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ27">Overseers of the Poor</rs>
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of the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo38">St. Giles</rs>
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without<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo39">Cripplegate</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo40">London</rs>
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aforesaid for this present year</p>
<p n="38">That your Petitioners business requiring much of<lb></lb>
his Personal Application thereto and your petitioner<lb></lb>
also being but in an Indifferent State of health is<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ28">unable</rs>
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to perform the said Office but is William to Fine<lb></lb>
for the same According to the Custom of the said parish<lb></lb>
and having Applied for that purpose the Parishoners<lb></lb>
have agreed to Accept of your Petitioners Fine and<lb></lb>
that your Petitioner may be Discharged from the said<lb></lb>
Office If this Honourable Court Shall think fit</p>
<p n="39">Your Petitioner therefore most<lb></lb>
Humbly prays That he may be<lb></lb>
Discharged from the said Office<lb></lb>
by Order of this Court</p>
<p n="40">and your petitioner as in Duty bound shall<lb></lb>
ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="41"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15058_n41-1">Thos. Branston</rs>
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