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<p n="222">To <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15023_occ126">the Right Honeble</rs>
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: <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15023_occ127">Sr</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15023_n222-1">Robert Beachcroft</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15023_occ128">Kt</rs>
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: and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15023_occ129">Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15023_geo159">City of London</rs>
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<lb></lb>
To his Worshipfull Bretheren the Aldermen<lb></lb>
& Recorder of said City</p>
<p n="223">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15023_n223-1">Robert Palmer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15023_occ130">Chirurgeon</rs>
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and Citizen of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15023_geo160">London</rs>
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, now a<lb></lb>
Prisonr: in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15023_geo161">the Poultry Compter</rs>
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<p n="224"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That Ye. poor Peticoner being through<lb></lb>
his many Losses and misfortunes reduc'd to a very lew Estate<lb></lb>
and Condition was Arrested for Debt in the year 1710 and confim'd<lb></lb>
close Prisonr: in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15023_geo162">Poulty Compter</rs>
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aforesd. That during Yr.<lb></lb>
Peticoners Confinemt. aforesd an Indictment for Perjury and<lb></lb>
Committment thereupon from <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15023_occ131">the Worshipfull</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15023_occ132">Sr</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15023_n224-1">Peter King</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15023_occ133">Recorder</rs>
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was brought and lodg'd agt yr. sd Peticonr: Since which<lb></lb>
time Yr. Peticoner has endur'd great Hardships by a long & ledious<lb></lb>
Sickness want of all most all manner of Necessarys destitule of<lb></lb>
Friends and moneys, the truth of which has been related to all his<lb></lb>
Creditors and they in compassion to Yr. Peticoner discharg'd Yr.<lb></lb>
Peticonr: from all Debts Etc above Fourmen ths past. Your<lb></lb>
humble Peticonr: therefore has been confin'd ever Since upon no other<lb></lb>
Account whatever but the aforesd Indictmt. & Committent And for<lb></lb>
want of monys and Friends to assist yr. Peticoner legally to discharge<lb></lb>
himself from this any malicious Indictmt. & Committment. Yr.<lb></lb>
poor Peticoner: has and Still Sufferrs so much</p>
<p n="225">Wherefore Ye. poor Petitionr. most humbly beserches That<lb></lb>
he may have an Order to be brought up<lb></lb>
before this Honeble: Court to plead to the aforesd<lb></lb>
Indictmt. Your Peticoner having legally Sumon'd the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Plt. who procur'd the sd Indictmt: to be lay'd agt. Ye. Peticonr to appear</p>
<p n="226">And Your poor Peticonr. as in Duty bound Shall ever pray Etc</p>
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