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<p n="254">To the Right Honourable Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n254-1">William Billers</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15045_occ133">Knight</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15045_occ134">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15045_geo164">City of London</rs>
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and the Rest of the Honourable<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15045_occ135">the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer</rs>
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and General Gaol Delivery<lb></lb>
for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15045_geo165">City of London</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15045_geo166">County of Middlesex</rs>
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,</p>
<p n="255">The humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n255-1">Catherine Cole</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15045_occ136">Widow</rs>
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</p>
<p n="256">Humbly Sheweth<lb></lb>
That Your Petitioner's Son<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n256-1">Thomas Cole</rs>
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, being but a few Months more than Thirteen Years<lb></lb>
of Ago I was cast for Transportation last Sessions at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15045_geo167">Old Baily</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for Stealing Two Silver Spoons and a Brass Candlestick of his<lb></lb>
Masters, which he was sedmed by Evil Counsell to take and afterwards<lb></lb>
pawn, Intending to redeem and replace the Same before they were<lb></lb>
missed.</p>
<p n="257">That Your Petitioner by her Industry hath brought<lb></lb>
up a Large Family of Children in Vertue and Sobriety, and<lb></lb>
her Son (the Prisoner) till this Misfortune hath always behavid<lb></lb>
himself with Honestly, and is now truly Penitent for his Fault.</p>
<p n="258">That Your Petitioner having provided him a Master.<lb></lb>
to go as a Servant and to be brought up on board One of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Ships of War,</p>
<p n="259">Wee the Minister and Church Wardens<lb></lb>
of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15045_geo168">Saint James Clerkenwell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15045_geo169">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Do certify, that<lb></lb>
we have known the Petitioner and her said son<lb></lb>
stay & lived in the Parish for Severaly Years last past, and believe the<lb></lb>
Allegations of the said Petition to be True, and<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n259-1">Thomas Cole</rs>
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, if the Petition be<lb></lb>
complied with, may be coclaimed,</p>
<p n="260">Humbly Prays That in<lb></lb>
regard to her Sons Tonder Years his<lb></lb>
Sentence of Transportation may be<lb></lb>
reversed and chang'd into Corporal<lb></lb>
Punishment</p>
<p n="261">And Your Petitioner with<lb></lb>
her Children will over pray Etc.</p>
<p n="262"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n262-1">Gil. Burnet</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15045_occ137">Minister</rs>
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</p>
<p n="263"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n263-1">Wm Browning</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15045_n263-2">Wm Kroger</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
Church Wardns.</p>
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