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<p n="11">To the Right Honourable <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n11-1">Thomas Rawlinson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50423_occ8">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50423_occ9">Lord Mayer</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50423_geo17">City<lb></lb>
of London</rs>
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and the Rest of his Majestys Justices of Goal delivery for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50423_geo18">Newgate</rs>
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in-<lb></lb>
Session Assembled.</p>
<p n="12">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n12-1">Benjamin Hill</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50423_n12-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
a Poor<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50423_occ10">Prisoner</rs>
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now under Confinement in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50423_geo19">Newgate<lb></lb>
Goal</rs>
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<p n="13"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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<p n="14">That you Petitioner on the third day of November last was Committed<lb></lb>
by I Fielding <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50423_occ11">Esqr</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50423_geo20">Tothill Fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50423_geo21">Bridewell</rs>
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Charged upon the Oath<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n14-2">John Mason</rs>
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on a Violent Suspicion of having Feloniously taken and<lb></lb>
Carryed away a Quantity of Brandy and Rum the Property of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n14-3">John Mason</rs>
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against the Peace Etc and for further Examination</p>
<p n="15">That Your Humble Petitioner on the fifth day of November last was<lb></lb>
Detained in Custody Charged upon the Oath of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n15-1">John Mason</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50423_n15-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and<lb></lb>
One Samuel <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50423_occ12">Leper</rs>
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for Feloniously taking and Carrying away a<lb></lb>
Great Quantity of Rum and Brandy the Property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n15-2">John<lb></lb>
Mason</rs>
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against the Peace Etc And him safely to Keep untill<lb></lb>
Discharged by due Course of Law As by the said several<lb></lb>
Committments may Appear</p>
<p n="16">That Your Humble Petitioner Dreading the Confinement of<lb></lb>
a Goal and the more so as he is very Poor and Destitute<lb></lb>
of Money and Friends And being Conscious of his Innocent<lb></lb>
and Integrity Therefore he most Humbly Prays that<lb></lb>
he may be Tryed this Present Sessions or that he may-<lb></lb>
be Bailed or Acquitted as to this Honorable Court Shall<lb></lb>
seem meet</p>
<p n="17">And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray Etc<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n17-1">Benjamin Hill</rs>
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