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<p n="1031">To the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15086_occ257">Right Honourable</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1031-1">John Wilkes</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo567">City of London</rs>
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, and the Rest of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace in their General Quarter Session of the Peace in and for the City of<lb></lb>
London Assembled.</p>
<p n="1032">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1032-1">Robert Moon</rs>
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<p n="1033"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That your Petitioner (who is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15086_occ259">Deputy Constable</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo568">Ward of Portsoken</rs>
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) being lately Indicted<lb></lb>
for Assaulting and Imprisoning <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1033-1">Jane Marsh</rs>
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(a Woman of the Town) until She paid two Shillings for her<lb></lb>
Enlargement your Petitioner pleaded thereto, Not Guilty, and the Issue was Tryed this present Session, on<lb></lb>
Monday the second Day of October Instant, when your Petitioner was found guilty of the said Offence, and<lb></lb>
received the following Judgment from this Honourable Court (Vizt.) To pay a Fine of Five Pounds, and<lb></lb>
"suffer three Months Imprisonment in Newgate.</p>
<p n="1034">That your Petitioner hereby acknowledges himself Guilty of the said Offence, and that he hath justly<lb></lb>
incurred the displeasure of this Honourable Court, (but was induced to commit the same by one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1034-1">Hugh Wilson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15086_occ260">Deputy Constable</rs>
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who is since Dead But for as much as your Petitioner is excessively Poor not in the least<lb></lb>
able to pay the said Fine or any part thereof without the Assistance of some Benevolent Person, or Persent<lb></lb>
And as your Petitioner hath a Wife and Three small Children to support from his daily Earnings, and from<lb></lb>
some Christmas Gifts Annually bestowed on him, by the Parishioners of the Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate as<lb></lb>
their Bellman, and without which Assistance, your Petitioners Wife, and Family, must inevitably become<lb></lb>
chargeable to the Parish for their support, and Maintenance.</p>
<p n="1035">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly hopes this Honourable Court will take<lb></lb>
his Case into Consideration, and mittigate the Judgment pronounced against him,<lb></lb>
both with respect tot he Fine, and Imprisonment, Your Petitioner hereby present<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
never hereaftr. to be guilty of any Offence or Misdemeanour, to Inner the<lb></lb>
displeasure of this, or any other Court of Indicature</p>
<p n="1036">And your Petitioner as in Duty bound will ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="1037">We whose Names are hereunto subscribed Being Parishioners of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo569">Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate</rs>
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London do on Account of the<lb></lb>
Petitioners Circumstances, and distresses of his Wife and Family<lb></lb>
humbly beg leave to reccommand the said Petitioners to this<lb></lb>
Honourable Court for their Clemency}</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1041-2">William Dennis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1041-5">Thos Hardy</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1041-3">Willm. Beebe</rs>
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<p n="1042"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1042-1">John. Downes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1042-2">Antony Kemp</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1042-3">Robt. Barnett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1042-4">John Towers</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1042-5">John Barney</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n1042-6">John Sampson</rs>
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J Hough</p>
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