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The Humble Petition of
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Mary Norris
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Wife
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of
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John
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Norris
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Inhabitant of A House in
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Noble Street
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in ye Parish
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of St Giles Cripplegate
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in the County of Middx
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Humbly Sheweth unto your Honnor
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That your Petitioner & her Husband through great Misfortunes
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and Sickness and haveing a Son to keep at this present time who in Augt
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last Broke his Thigh in
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his Majtis Sarvis
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(on Board
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ye Monmouth
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) & is not
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Yett able through Extreem Weakness to Stand upright, and yr Petr
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Likewise haveing a Daughter who is very Week & Sickly and yr
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Petr. and Husband being restitute of alwayes and Means to provide
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Sustinance & Reline our Pressing Wants & being
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distitute
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Reduced to
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Great distress, And there being Severall Sums of Money due from
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the Widow Sights and Several Parish
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dves, which your Petr. is not able to pay, But the Severall
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Officers who Collect the same Threaten to distraine on yr Petr. Goods
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which is done your Petitioner will be Totally Ruind and be Forced to
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Take Relife of the Parish.
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May it please yr Honnor
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To give unto yr Petr. some Note or Order directed to
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such Officers not to distraine upon yr Petr. Goods for such
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Taxes or Rates, or such other Orders for yr Petr. Relife as yr
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Honnor in your Great Wisdom shall Seem Meett.
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And yr Petr and distress Famelie shall
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for Ever Pray
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