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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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of the Building which has lay'd open to the
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Public over since your petitioner resided inch
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which makes it impossible for your petitioner
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to consider himself, his Family and property
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Safe from the depredations of Thiefs and Robbers
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neither is it possible (so exposed) to be a accountable
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for the property that belongs to your Worships
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Your petitioner therefore prays
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your Worships will be pleased to grant him
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such assistance as will not only greatly
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relieve him, but greatly
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to the good Order
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of the Court, And that if it be not eligible
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at present to shut out the Public in a
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permanent manner, your petitioner prays
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your worships will be pleased, to do it in a
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Temporary way which your petitioner
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suggests may be done at a Trifling expence
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there being some space doors and other materials
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And your petitioner
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as in Duty Bound will
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20th. October 1785
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