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To the Right Honourable
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and the Rest of the Honble
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Bench in their General Session of Gael Delivery Assembled
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The Humble Petition and Prayer of
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Elizabeth
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That the Eighteenth Day of February Instant your
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Petitioner was Committed to his Majestys
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on Suspicion of being Concerned with
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others Unknown in Feloniously Stealing Sixteen Iron Barrs
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the Property of the said George, Eight of the said Iron Barrs
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being Found in her Possession And now is a Prisoner Confined
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in Newgate under the Same Charge
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Your Petitioner therefore Most Humbly Prays
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That at this Present Session of Gaol Delivery
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She may be Tryed, Bealed
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or Discharged Pursuant to the Statute
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in that Case made and Provided.
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And your Petitioner Shall Pray Etc.
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