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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Three yards of Dowlas at one Shilling P Yard, for
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which there was, only, Enterd in your Petitioners
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book, two Shillings, and Six pence (the said Mrs.
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Chandler
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having Occasion for some more of
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the same Cloth, came again to your Petitioners
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Shop, (which Occasioned the discovery) and gave
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your Petitioner great reason to Suspect the
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honesty of the said
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Michael Samson
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That on the Eleventh day of February
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last, he again Absented himself from your
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Petitioners house and Service, and Cohabited,
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with, the same (or some other Girl of the town)
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That your Petitioner, even then,
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offerd to receive him back again, upon Condition
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of his Trustees giving proper security. for
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his honesty and good behaviour for the
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future, which they refused, and since that
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time he has been absent from your Petitioners
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Service (which has) and must, put your
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Petitioner to great Inconveniencies and Expences
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your Petitioners Business being of such a
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nature, must give a Servant from Twenty to
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Thirty Pounds P Year to Supply his place
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