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To the Rt. Honble. the Lord Mayor, the Worshipful the
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Recorder of the City of London and the Rest of the Justices of Oyer & Terminer
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at Justice Hall in the Old Baily, assigned to deliver
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Newgate of the Prisoners therein, for the said City.
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The most hble Petition of
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Isabella Eaton
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner on the 19th. Day of January
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1735 was at the
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of the said City convicted of a
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Misdemeanour at the Prosecution of
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Robert Willis
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That your Petitioner, has been Eight Months in
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Goal ever and above the time that was by Order of Court
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assigned; And during that time has tendered Several
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Bail for her Behaviour, before
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Richard Brocas
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and others, but have been always repulsed & obstrucked
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throught the Prosecutors Menaces, they requiring her Life
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only.
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That your Petitioner is almost Starved in Goal &
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has good Ball now ready.
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Therefore Your Petitioner humbly begs
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that you would be pleased to take her
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Case into Consideration & release her
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from her long and tedious Confinement
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or otherwise relieve her as in Your Charity
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& Wisdom shall be thought proper.
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And Yor. Lordship and Worship's Petitioner shall ever pray etc
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Isabella Eaton
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