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<p n="85">To the Worshipfull Justices of the Peace<lb></lb>
for the City & Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65430_geo74">Westminr</rs>
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: att an<lb></lb>
Adjournmt. of Octobr: Sessions held the 18th:<lb></lb>
Instant 1743</p>
<p n="86">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n86-1">John Cardell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Now a Prisoner in the Gatehouse</p>
<p n="87"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petr: was on the 7th. Inst tryed & found Guilty on an<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65430_occ35">Indictmt</rs>
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. for Assaulting Thos: Coop and your Worships where then pleased to fine ye Petrs:<lb></lb>
one Hundred pounds, that afterwards on the 8th: Inst the sd. fine was reduced and a Penalty<lb></lb>
inflicted in twelve Callender Months imprisonment.</p>
<p n="88">That on the Day of Tryall it was represented to Yr. Worships by<lb></lb>
Councell in the behalf of the Plant. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n88-1">Thos: Coop</rs>
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, that Yr: Petr: was a man of Fortune & had<lb></lb>
one hundred pounds a Year, so far from that may it please Yr, Worships Yr, Petrs: is ready<lb></lb>
to make Affidt: that he is not nor never was possessd, of any such Annual sum but was<lb></lb>
No more than a <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65430_occ36">Journeyman</rs>
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to Mr Phillip Nind Ironmongr: in <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65430_geo75">the Strand</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
Wages of £20. P Ann</p>
<p n="89">That during Yr. Petr: Confinement in the Gatehouse severall<lb></lb>
of his Friends and perticularly Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n89-1">Nathaniel Jeffries</rs>
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have applyd, to the sd, <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n89-2">Thos: Coop</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
order to make such sastisfaction as he Yr: Worships Petr, & all his Friends can raise wch,<lb></lb>
is the sum of £35..0..0 but the sd Thos: Coop absolutely refuses to accept of the said<lb></lb>
offer but Strenuously insists upon £47..0..0</p>
<p n="90">May it therefore please Yr: Worships to take Yr: Petirs:<lb></lb>
Case into Consideration and grant that indulgence to a<lb></lb>
destressd, Family so as to prevail upon the sd<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Thos.<lb></lb>
Coop to accept the above proposall which Yr Petr has<lb></lb>
offerr'd</p>
<p n="91">And Yr: Petir: as in Duty bound will always pray</p>
<p n="92"> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n92-1">John Cardell</rs>
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