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To the Right Worpll: her Maties: Justices of the
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Peace for the County of Middlx
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The humble Peticon & appeale of
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Elizabeth Tisbury
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Sheweth
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That your Petre. Last Husband was a Bricklayor, and was kild by a fall from off a
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Scaffold, and hath left your Petr. in a very poor Condition with three Children to
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maintaine, yor Petr makeing a hard Shift to keep them from being chargable to the
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said Parish by Selling a little Earthen ware for a Livelyhood. Yet not withstanding
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your Peter. miserable case, and known poverty your Petr: is assessed Eighteene
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Pence P Quarter, to the poors Rate, which your Petr. is not able to pay
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Therefore humbly prays of this Honble: Court to be discharged
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from paying to the said Rate, neither was yor Petr. ever charged before.
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And yor Petr Shall pray Etc
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Elizabeth Tisbury
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