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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Worship full Ye. Bench of
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Justices now Setting at Hicks his
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Sheweth
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That yor Petr in the Year 1713 was convicted for an Assault
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at Hicks: his: Hall for which he was Fined Ten:Pounds And for Non: paymt
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ent thereof, hath Endured near four Years imprisonment, Attended with all Ye.
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Misserys of Extream Want and Cruil oppression.
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That he hath been Ever since his Confinement in ye. most deplorable
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State imaginable, Being Destitute of all Friends, and Depending only upon
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Yor. Petr: therefore most humbly prays that yor.
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Worships won'd be pleas'd to Regard his un happy Circumstancies, and
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Grant that he may be Either Dischargd by his Majestys late Act
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of Grace, or that he may be some other way Releas'd being fin'd bey
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round what he is Ever capable of Paying, Therefore he humbly begs
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yor Worships Compassion after so tedions a Confinemt. Being a young
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Man not yet 23. years of Age.
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And yor. Petr. as in Duty
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bound shall Ever pray Etc
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