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To the Right Honourable Sir
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William Billers
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Knight
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Lord Mayor
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and the Rest of the Honourable
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the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer
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and General Gaol Delivery
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The humble petition of
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Catherine Cole
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Humbly Sheweth
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That Your Petitioner's Son
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Thomas Cole
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, being but a few Months more than Thirteen Years
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of Ago I was cast for Transportation last Sessions at the
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Old Baily
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for Stealing Two Silver Spoons and a Brass Candlestick of his
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Masters, which he was sedmed by Evil Counsell to take and afterwards
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pawn, Intending to redeem and replace the Same before they were
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missed.
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That Your Petitioner by her Industry hath brought
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up a Large Family of Children in Vertue and Sobriety, and
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her Son (the Prisoner) till this Misfortune hath always behavid
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himself with Honestly, and is now truly Penitent for his Fault.
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That Your Petitioner having provided him a Master.
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to go as a Servant and to be brought up on board One of his
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Majesty's Ships of War,
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Wee the Minister and Church Wardens
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of the Parish of
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Saint James Clerkenwell
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Do certify, that
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we have known the Petitioner and her said son
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stay & lived in the Parish for Severaly Years last past, and believe the
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Allegations of the said Petition to be True, and
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that the said
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Thomas Cole
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, if the Petition be
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complied with, may be coclaimed,
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Humbly Prays That in
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regard to her Sons Tonder Years his
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Sentence of Transportation may be
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reversed and chang'd into Corporal
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Punishment
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And Your Petitioner with
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her Children will over pray Etc.
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Gil. Burnet
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Minister
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Wm Browning
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Church Wardns.
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