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<p n="389">To the Worshipful <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50529_n389-1">Thos. Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50529_occ70">Esqr</rs>
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and the Nest of his Majestys, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50529_occ71">Justices of ye. Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50529_geo194">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="390">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50529_n390-1">Jno Turner</rs>
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Late <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50529_occ72">Keeper</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50529_geo195">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50529_geo196">Bridewell</rs>
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<p n="391">Sheweth,<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner has ye. misfortune to be<lb></lb>
Confined for Debt in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50529_geo197">Wood street</rs>
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Comptor, where he<lb></lb>
has lain these Three Months, in a most Deplorable<lb></lb>
Situation; being Destitute of all ye Necessaries of Life<lb></lb>
and Obliged to lie on the bare Boards, for want of<lb></lb>
Money to Pay for a Room</p>
<p n="392">That your Petitioner has been Obliged from time<lb></lb>
to time to Part with all his wearing Apparel, Etc<lb></lb>
Otherwise he must have been Obliged to live only on<lb></lb>
the Prison Allowance of a Penny Leaf a Day; it not<lb></lb>
being in his Power by any other means to Procure money<lb></lb>
for his Subsistence.</p>
<p n="393">That at the time your Petitioner was turned out of<lb></lb>
his Place, which was on the 25th. of May he had not receiv'd<lb></lb>
his Salary or any Part there of from the 1st of January<lb></lb>
last Past, During an Interval of near 4 Months.</p>
<p n="394">Your Petitioner therefore most Humbly Prays<lb></lb>
your Worships will take his un happy<lb></lb>
Case into Consideration, and give order for the<lb></lb>
Payment of his Arrears, which will be of the<lb></lb>
Utmost Service to him in his Present Distress;<lb></lb>
and which his humble Request, he Does not doubt<lb></lb>
bat your Worships will grant, when you shall<lb></lb>
be informed of his Necessity; and this your kind<lb></lb>
Compliance shall not fail to most with the<lb></lb>
Most grateful Acknowledgment from Your<lb></lb>
Poor Petitioner, who,</p>
<p n="395">As in Duty bound shall over Pray Etc Etc</p>
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