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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Feb 1690/1
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To the honble. the Justices sitting at
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Edward Abbis
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That your Petr.
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by this honoble. Cort
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being fined five marks upon pleading guilty to an Indictmt. for a
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disorderly house
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That your petr. is not conscious of any occasion given for
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the said Indictmt. he believing it to preferd agt. him by Some
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person out of malice
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That yr. petr. has lived Sevth. years in the parish of
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& never before has gave any trouble on this acct
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to this honoble. Court & promises so to behave himself for
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the future as to give no offence
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That yor. petr. is a poor & is forced to endure the
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hardships of the prison
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Therefore humbly prays this honorble
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wit to mitigate his sd. five as to
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yr. worsps. wisdom shall seem most meet
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And yor. petr. as in duty bound/shall ever pray Etc
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