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To the Worshipful
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John Turner
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Humbly Sheweth.
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That your Petitioner having four Small Children,
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and being greatly in debt by misfortune of marrying a
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Woman abandon'd to extravagance & vice, has no way
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of providing for his children, nor of keeping himself
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from a prison, if he be removed from his place; But if
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Suffered to remain in it is now in hopes of paying
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his debts and bringing up his children, She being gone
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Therefore your Petitioner implores
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your Worships patience & Compassion
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that he may be continued in his place,
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And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc.
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