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To the Right Worshipfull his Maties Justices of the
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Peace for the County of Middx att the Sessions att.
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Hicks Hall St. John Street
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The humble Petition of
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Anne Cantwell
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Sheweth
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That your Worships were pleased to order the parish of
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St. James Westmr.
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to pay into your Petr. five shillings a Weeke for the support of herselfer Child
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and that your Petr. hath been Severall times with the Overseers of the Poore of
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the said parish who doe not only refuse to pay her. but doe positively tell her
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that they will not obey your Worships Order lett what will come to them, and
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they doe also threaten Gann Petr. And that she is reduced to extream poverty
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as had it not been for the Charity of well disposed Christians she had long since
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Perished: And she hath reason to beleive that her husband and the said
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Overseers doe agree to ruine her: And your Petr. goeing along the street
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was assaulted by two men and a woman, and was greivously battered & wounded
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And the man who first assaulted her took her by the Arme, and sayd these
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words vizt God dawn you for a Bitch you want a husband, come along with
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us, but when People came neare that your Petr. complained of the ill usage,
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they fled, And yor. Petr. does beleive these assaulters were sett on by her
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husband and she does dayly goe in danger of her Life. And that she hath been
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forced to contract severall debts, and is in feare of being arrested, and againe
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Cast into Prison: And yor. Petr. hath been informed that her husband and the
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said Overseers are often together
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Your Petr. doth therefore humbly pray yor. Worships will be pleased
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to order the said Overseers to pay her according to your Worships
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order, all the arrears of her Pention, and to releive her according
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to your great wisdom, and Justice.
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And your Petr. (as in duty bound) shall ever Pray Etc.
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