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<p n="236"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
To the Right Honourable Sir<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n236-1">William Billers</rs>
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Knight <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15045_occ123">Lord Mayor</rs>
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<p n="237">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n237-1">Henry Bulley</rs>
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<p n="238"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth.</note>
<lb></lb>
That Your Petitioner was at the last Sessions<lb></lb>
holden at the Old Bayley <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15045_occ124">Tried</rs>
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for Stealing a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15045_occ125">Pewter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Gallon Pott from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15045_geo158">White Bear</rs>
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in Linnestreet of<lb></lb>
which Offence he was Convicted and remaines a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15045_occ126">Prisoner</rs>
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in Order to be Transported for the Same<lb></lb>
pursuant to his Sentence</p>
<p n="239">That Your Peticoner has for may Yeares<lb></lb>
served in his Majestys Royal Navy in the Several<lb></lb>
Ships following (to Wit) The Bedford, Autelops,<lb></lb>
Feversham, Warspicke, Dreadnought, & Royal<lb></lb>
Oake, and is at this time Entred on Board his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15045_occ127">Majestye Ship</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15045_geo159">Hampton Court</rs>
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and has a<lb></lb>
Wife and four Children who must be inevitably ruined<lb></lb>
without Your Petitioners Assistance And the Mercy<lb></lb>
of this Court</p>
<p n="240">Your Petitioner therefore most<lb></lb>
Humbly prays Your Lordship will<lb></lb>
in Your Accustomed Goodness<lb></lb>
Extend Your mercy to Your poor<lb></lb>
Petitioner and remit his Sentence<lb></lb>
to some Corporal Punishment as<lb></lb>
to Yor Lordship shall Seem Meet</p>
<p n="241">And Your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="242"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n242-1">Henry Bulley</rs>
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<p n="243"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n243-1">John Barber</rs>
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