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General Quarter Sessions at Hicks Hall assembled
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The Humble Petition of
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Sheweth
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That your Petrs. Daughter
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Ann Plumpton
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an Infant aged about
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Eleven years was by Indenture of
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, in the Year One Thousand
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Seven Hundred and Forty Nine to One
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William Sumner
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St. Leonard
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upholesterer
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That During the time the Child has been put an Apprentice
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She has been most Crully, Beat and Barbarously used, Half Starved
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and not allowed the common necessarys to Support Humane
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Nature, so that had it not been. for the Neighbours assissting and
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giving the Infant Charity, it must have Perished
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That this Usage has been continually repeated, has been
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Beat Wounded and Treated in such a manner That when
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inquired into by your Worshipps, your Petr. humbly presumes
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you'l releive her
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She therefore most humbly begs that you
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would be Pleased to Consider the Melancholy
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Scitution the Child is in and that unless
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your Worships, should be Pleased to make
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such Order in the Premisses, that the
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Child should be discharged from the Indre
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it must still Labour under the Greater
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Hardships. Humbly submitting to your
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And is in Duty bound to pray
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