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The Humble Petition of
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Most humbly Sheweth that your Petitioner and her
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husband hath lived in and rented a house of Twenty Pounds
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a year and Some time Ago your Petitioner said husband
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went Abroad
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; and Taking with him
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near all his Effects To the Amount of near Two hundred
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pounds. which she hath no hopes of recovering he dying in
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; and leaving her very poor with four small Children
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So that she with great Submission thinks herself an Object intitled to the Benifit of
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a Clause in an Act of Parliament passd in the 25th year of the
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take Kings intilled an Act for the better preventing of Thefts
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and Robberys and for regulating places of publick Entertainmt.
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and Punishing person keeping Disorderly Houses; And
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earnistly hopes the Goodness of their Honble Court will Coneas with
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your Petitioner and grant her an order on the
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to receive the Expences she has been put to in this
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Prosecutions
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And she in Duty bound will ever Pray
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