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<p n="496">To <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50879_n496-1">Willm. Mainwaring</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50879_n496-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50879_occ70">Esqr</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50879_occ70" type="occupation" value="Esqr"></interp>
<lb></lb>
one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50879_occ71">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
also <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo77">Member of Parliament</rs>
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for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo78">Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="497">The Humble Petition of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50879_n497-1">Mary Stewart</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50879_n497-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
tried by the name of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50879_n497-2">Mary Gardiner</rs>
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</p>
<p n="498"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your petitioner was tried at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo79">Hicks<lb></lb>
Hall</rs>
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the thirteenth day of December last for keeping<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50879_occ72">disorderly House</rs>
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and lamentable for her received<lb></lb>
the Judgment of the Court to be imprisoned 12 months<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo80">Bridewell</rs>
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<p n="499">It would be imprudent for your petitioner<lb></lb>
to animadvert upon the Circumstances that awaited the<lb></lb>
Trial yet your petitioner Satisfied of the Humanity that<lb></lb>
has always distinguished your Character humbly<lb></lb>
requests that you will revise it in your recollection to<lb></lb>
Afford this her petition its due weight</p>
<p n="500">Your petitioner has four unfortunate Infants<lb></lb>
to support from her Labor and in her Conviction<lb></lb>
fall helpless and innocent Victims without the<lb></lb>
means of Comfort or Sustenance</p>
<p n="501">Your petitioner is fully Sensible of the Justice<lb></lb>
of the Laws of this County and the necessity there<lb></lb>
is (for the preservation of public peace) to prevent<lb></lb>
dissipation and Riot yet she hopes the Circumstance<lb></lb>
of her helpless family and her having obeyed the<lb></lb>
direction of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50879_occ73">Vestry Clerk</rs>
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in removing the nuisance<lb></lb>
Supposing that would have ended the Business will<lb></lb>
be suffered to opperate with you</p>
<p n="502">That Since your Petitioner has been confined<lb></lb>
in Goal the prisoners confined there have many of<lb></lb>
them died in as much as to alarm your petitioner<lb></lb>
with fears for her own Safety and the more so</p>
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