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<p n="392">To the Worshipful <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50588_n392-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50588_occ134">Esqr</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and to the Rest of the Justices in this present<lb></lb>
Session Assembled</p>
<p n="393">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50588_n393-1">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Roberts</rs>
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<p n="394"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner was Committed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50588_geo411">New prison</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
the Seventh of October Instant on Suspicion of Stealing<lb></lb>
two pair of Stockings the property of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50588_n394-1">Richard March</rs>
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<p n="395">That your petitioner upon her Tryal before this<lb></lb>
Honourable Court this Day is Ordered for Transportation for <lb></lb>
Seven Years</p>
<p n="396">That your petitioner is only of the Age of Sixteen<lb></lb>
Years and was never Guilty of any thing of the like before<lb></lb>
October 21st. 1768.</p>
<p n="397"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">the Prosecutor humbly<lb></lb>
hapes your Worships<lb></lb>
will take her Case into<lb></lb>
Your Consideration</note>
<lb></lb>
Your Petitioner therefore humbly pray<lb></lb>
your Worships to take her tender years<lb></lb>
into Consideration and grant her a<lb></lb>
Respite from that Sentence or such other<lb></lb>
Relief as in your great goodness may<lb></lb>
think proper</p>
<p n="398"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">I Rosceman Evans House Keeper<lb></lb>
of Mr. Clements parish in Holywell<lb></lb>
Street Upwards to twenty years to<lb></lb>
Know Elizabeth Rabenth from<lb></lb>
an Infant Br<obscured></obscured>
In the Land<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
parish Scoot and Never New her<lb></lb>
to Be Guilty of any Bad thing</note>
<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50588_n398-1">Jam Bardin</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Live my<lb></lb>
In Millford Land knows<lb></lb>
Elizabeth Roberts from an<lb></lb>
Infant and Never New her to<lb></lb>
be Guilty of any Bad things<lb></lb>
and hopes you will pleesd<lb></lb>
to Be four fraurable}</p>
<p n="399"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50588_n399-1">Gabriel Leaver Newsham</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50588_occ135">Brewer</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50588_geo412">Milford Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Strand<lb></lb>
I am Worshipfull Sirs Your Humbl. Servt.</note>
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<p n="400">And is in Duty bound shall<lb></lb>
ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="401">Sir <lb></lb>
on Inquiry I have Reason<lb></lb>
to think the above <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50588_n401-1">Eliza Roberts</rs>
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<lb></lb>
has been drawn into this Robery<lb></lb>
by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50588_n401-2">diana Nash</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50588_n401-2" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
, & seems to be<lb></lb>
her first offence, I shierfore with<lb></lb>
submission Recomend hereto your<lb></lb>
mercy, that Instead of Transportation<lb></lb>
hope she may Receive, private Correction<lb></lb>
R. March Prosecutor</p>
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