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The King agt.
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one of the Defendants names in this
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Indictment maketh Oath that he is
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which is a Place of forty pounds a year Salary
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and no more and hath an allowance if twelve pounds a year for repairing the Bedding and that he this Deponent hath &
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Wife and four Children to maintain thereout and
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his
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is now big with Child and hath no other Income or Estate than as aforesaid And
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Asher Jones
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and
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other of the Defendants in the said Indictment maketh
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oath that he was a
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and hath been
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out of a employ ever since Christmas last and hath been
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long ill and nothing to live upon or maintain himself
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by save and except the Profits of his said late
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Imploy And the Deft.
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make Oath
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that he hath
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of the
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Salary of Six Shillings and Six pence per
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day pre tempore out of which this Deponent maketh
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an allowance to a super anuated Ginner of ten,
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Shillings each time
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Gums are fired, and
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hath a Wife, and hath no other income or Estate to
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maintain himself and Wife with than what
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arises from his said Place And all the said Defendants
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humbly submit their Case to the Court and pray to be
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fined as the Court shall think fit but humbly hope
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it may be as small as the nature of the offence will
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admit, and humbly beg not to be Imprisoned as
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they will thereby be deprived of getting their
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Bread
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London the
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23d. June 1752
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By the Court
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Ash Jones
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