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To the Worship full Justice Cowper Chairman of
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the Bench of Justices at
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The Humble Petition & Appeale of
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Cornelius Jesson
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Sheweth.
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That your Petitioner haveing a
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in the Town of
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Hoxton
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in the
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Parish of Shoreditch
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,
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for
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making of Sail cloath
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for the Service of his Majesties Royal
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Navy, and He Carrying on the Same, in divers other parts
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of this Kingdom in which places he employs many Hundreds
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of the poor, who have never been any ways chargeable to ye said
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Parishes And Whereas a Warrant was left the
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4th of
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this Inst: Aprill
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at his said
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Workhouse
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, Signd By the
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Worshipfull
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Thos. Talboy
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&
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Philip Willshire
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Esqrs
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two of
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his Majesties
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Justices of the peace
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for the
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County of Middlesex
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Appointing Your Peticoner to be one of the
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Scavengers
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of the said Parish which Warrant was Rejected to be
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Sign'd by
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Ralph Harrwood
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. he judgeing Your Petitioner
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not to be a fit person for the Said Office.
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And as Your Petitioner has
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always freely paid his Assesments without Demurr
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In Consideracon of the Above Pmises.
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He Humbly prays this
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Honble. Court that he may
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may
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be Discharged
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Serveing the Said Office: he Being So instrument
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in Imploying the poor his Affairs lieing
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So remote, and his dwelling house in ye. parish
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of
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St. Battolph Aldersgate
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, for which
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reasons he is not Able to attend the Same.
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And your Petnr. Etc
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Corns. Jesson
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