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Robert Beachcroft
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Mayor
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To his Worshipfull Bretheren the Aldermen
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& Recorder of said City
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The humble Petition of
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Robert Palmer
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Chirurgeon
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and Citizen of
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, now a
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Prisonr: in
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the Poultry Compter
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Humbly Sheweth
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That Ye. poor Peticoner being through
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his many Losses and misfortunes reduc'd to a very lew Estate
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and Condition was Arrested for Debt in the year 1710 and confim'd
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close Prisonr: in the
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aforesd. That during Yr.
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Peticoners Confinemt. aforesd an Indictment for Perjury and
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Committment thereupon from
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Peter King
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Recorder
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was brought and lodg'd agt yr. sd Peticonr: Since which
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time Yr. Peticoner has endur'd great Hardships by a long & ledious
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Sickness want of all most all manner of Necessarys destitule of
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Friends and moneys, the truth of which has been related to all his
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Creditors and they in compassion to Yr. Peticoner discharg'd Yr.
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Peticonr: from all Debts Etc above Fourmen ths past. Your
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humble Peticonr: therefore has been confin'd ever Since upon no other
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Account whatever but the aforesd Indictmt. & Committent And for
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want of monys and Friends to assist yr. Peticoner legally to discharge
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himself from this any malicious Indictmt. & Committment. Yr.
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poor Peticoner: has and Still Sufferrs so much
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Wherefore Ye. poor Petitionr. most humbly beserches That
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he may have an Order to be brought up
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before this Honeble: Court to plead to the aforesd
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Indictmt. Your Peticoner having legally Sumon'd the
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Plt. who procur'd the sd Indictmt: to be lay'd agt. Ye. Peticonr to appear
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And Your poor Peticonr. as in Duty bound Shall ever pray Etc
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