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<p n="113">To the Worshipll. the Chairman & the rest of His Majties Justices of the Peace<lb></lb>
Assembled in Session at Hicks Hall</p>
<p n="114">That humble peticon and Case of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50167_n114-1">Mary Wade</rs>
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<p n="115"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That yor Petrs. lately came from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50167_geo63">Ireland</rs>
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and Imported ever with<lb></lb>
her a parcell of Irish Cloth into Great Britain where with she acquainted<lb></lb>
Severall Linnen Drapers and Particularly one Vezeene a Linnen Draper<lb></lb>
in the Stand, Who come to yor Petr. Lodgings & desired her to bring when she<lb></lb>
pleased to his shop two or three peeces of the said Cloth wch. accordingly she<lb></lb>
die And then he said he could not know it by them So sometime of her<lb></lb>
he came to her Lodging again but she was not at home & desired to See the<lb></lb>
Cloth wch. he did and choose two peaces And desired. I would being them to<lb></lb>
by Shop And the next days she carryed them thither And he told yor. Petr.<lb></lb>
he could not buy it untill his wife came home and put her behind his Compter<lb></lb>
and kept her there and eatt the Shings from about her Cloth And bid her ss<lb></lb>
little she could not Sell it to him Thereupon she look her Cloth & carryed it<lb></lb>
to a Friends these House to Lay up for her One William Geestree a Surveyor as<lb></lb>
She is informed and another followed her from the sd. Shop to the the place where<lb></lb>
She lay it up and asked her if she had any finer for he wanted a Peece to<lb></lb>
make him Shirts & what she would have on Elz. Then he took her before Mr.<lb></lb>
Justices Hiskin together with her Cloth worth Six pounds wth. She was forced.<lb></lb>
to have because she refused to take a Lycence this was one Saturday last<lb></lb>
was Eleven Weeks or there abouts.</p>
<p n="116">Yor. Petr. beleiving she was betrayed by the said Linnen Draper<lb></lb>
applyed to Councillor Hett place Nott Esqr. who humble<lb></lb>
Conceives that yor Petr. being the Importer from Ireland And<lb></lb>
bringing the said Cloth by Express Order from her Lodgings<lb></lb>
to the sd. Drapers Shop in Order for Sale there and no where<lb></lb>
else as it was lawfull for her to do And was not Hawking or<lb></lb>
Pedling with in the Prohibition or meaning of the Statute in<lb></lb>
that Case made So as to be Subject to any Forfeiture as he Case<lb></lb>
is Circumstanced. For that the Act of the Draper was ensuaring<lb></lb>
and fraudulent and tended to betray her into a Forfeiture<lb></lb>
All which yor. Petr. humble submitts and refferrs to ye. Judgmt.<lb></lb>
of this Honable Court for Such her Releife As to yor. Worshipps<lb></lb>
Shall Seem most meet</p>
<p n="117">And yr. Petrs. shall humbly Pray Etc.</p>
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