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<p n="246">To the Rt: Honble:<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50493_n246-1">Matthew Blackiston</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50493_n246-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50493_occ109">Knt</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50493_occ109" type="occupation" value="Knt"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50493_occ110">Lord<lb></lb>
Mayor</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50493_occ110" type="occupation" value="LordMayor"></interp>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50493_geo220">City of London</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50493_geo220" type="placeName" value="City of London"></interp>
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and the rest of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50493_occ111">Justices of Oyer and Terminer</rs>
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and Goal Delivery of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50493_geo221">Newgate</rs>
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</p>
<p n="247">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50493_n247-1">Mary Wall</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50493_n247-1" type="given" value="Mary"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50493_n247-1" type="surname" value="Wall"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50493_n247-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50493_occ112">Widow</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50493_occ112" type="occupation" value="Widow"></interp>
</p>
<p n="248">Most humbly Sheweth that your Petitioner and her<lb></lb>
husband hath lived in and rented a house of Twenty Pounds<lb></lb>
a year and Some time Ago your Petitioner said husband<lb></lb>
went Abroad <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50493_occ113">Sutler to the Blues</rs>
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; and Taking with him<lb></lb>
near all his Effects To the Amount of near Two hundred<lb></lb>
pounds. which she hath no hopes of recovering he dying in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50493_geo222">Germany</rs>
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; and leaving her very poor with four small Children<lb></lb>
So that she with great Submission thinks herself an Object intitled to the Benifit of<lb></lb>
a Clause in an Act of Parliament passd in the 25th year of the<lb></lb>
take Kings intilled an Act for the better preventing of Thefts<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and Robberys and for regulating places of publick Entertainmt.<lb></lb>
and Punishing person keeping Disorderly Houses; And<lb></lb>
earnistly hopes the Goodness of their Honble Court will Coneas with<lb></lb>
your Petitioner and grant her an order on the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50493_occ114">Treasurer of the<lb></lb>
County</rs>
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to receive the Expences she has been put to in this<lb></lb>
Prosecutions</p>
<p n="249">And she in Duty bound will ever Pray</p>
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