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