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<p n="59">To the Worshipfull the Chairman and others his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50411_occ29">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo61">Middx</rs>
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at this Present<lb></lb>
General Quarter Sessions at Hicks Hall assembled</p>
<p n="60">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50411_n60-1">Sarah Plumpton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50411_occ30">Widow</rs>
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, and Mother of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50411_n60-2">Ann Plumpton</rs>
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, an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50411_occ31">Infant</rs>
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</p>
<p n="61"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petrs. Daughter <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50411_n61-1">Ann Plumpton</rs>
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an Infant aged about<lb></lb>
Eleven years was by Indenture of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50411_occ32">Apprenticeship</rs>
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bound out by the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo62"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo63">Parish of Saint Luke</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo64">County of Middx</rs>
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</rs>
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, in the Year One Thousand<lb></lb>
Seven Hundred and Forty Nine to One <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50411_n61-2">William Sumner</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50411_geo65">St. Leonard<lb></lb>
Shoreditch</rs>
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in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50411_occ33">upholesterer</rs>
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</p>
<p n="62">That During the time the Child has been put an Apprentice<lb></lb>
She has been most Crully, Beat and Barbarously used, Half Starved<lb></lb>
and not allowed the common necessarys to Support Humane<lb></lb>
Nature, so that had it not been. for the Neighbours assissting and<lb></lb>
giving the Infant Charity, it must have Perished</p>
<p n="63">That this Usage has been continually repeated, has been<lb></lb>
Beat Wounded and Treated in such a manner That when<lb></lb>
inquired into by your Worshipps, your Petr. humbly presumes<lb></lb>
you'l releive her</p>
<p n="64">She therefore most humbly begs that you<lb></lb>
would be Pleased to Consider the Melancholy<lb></lb>
Scitution the Child is in and that unless<lb></lb>
your Worships, should be Pleased to make<lb></lb>
such Order in the Premisses, that the<lb></lb>
Child should be discharged from the Indre<lb></lb>
it must still Labour under the Greater<lb></lb>
Hardships. Humbly submitting to your<lb></lb>
Directions</p>
<p n="65">And is in Duty bound to pray</p>
<p n="66"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50411_n66-1">Sarah Plumpton</rs>
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