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To The Worship full Bench of Justices
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Sitting att
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The Humble Petition of
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Humbly Shew
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That your Petitioners together with one
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Indicted Last Sessions For Assaulting
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Martha Harris
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To wch Indictmt.
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yor. Petrs. being Persons ignorant in Mres of Law Pleaded not
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Guilty and For want of Bail were Remanded Back to
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where they had been Some time before Last Sessions and are now
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Still Confined
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That your Petitionrs. are very Poor and not in a Capacity
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to Traverse the Sd. Indictment By reason of their Extream Poverty
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Therefore Yor. Petrs. wave their Former Plea and Plead Guilty
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Yor. Petrs. Therefore humbly Crave yor
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Worships Tender Consideration of their
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Deplorable Circumstances and that Yor.
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Worshipps will be Pleased to Order yor.
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Petrs. to be Brought before the Court in Order
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to Wave their Said Plea and Plead Guilty
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and Further to Submitt to Such Order
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and Direccons in the Pr.misses As to yor
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Worships Shall Seem meet
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And Yor. Petrs. Shall Ever Pray Etc
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