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of the City of
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London and the rest of His Majesty's
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City in their General Quarter Session Assembled
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The Humble Petition of the Churchwardens and Overseers
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of the Poor of the
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David Williams
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an Inhabitant of the same Parish is
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lately become Poor and unable to maintain himself so that he is
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now in the workhouse and kept at the Charge of the same Parish
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being Old and unable to work
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Edward Williams
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Fleet Lane
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the Fleet market
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London
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undertaker
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is of sufficient
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Ability to maintain him
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That your Petitioners said Parish is heavily burthened with a
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great number of Poor Old Blind Lane and Impotent Persons
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Whereby your Petitioners humbly pray that
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the said
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may be ordered and
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obliged at his own Charges to relieve and
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maintain for his said poor Father according
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to such Rate, as to your Lordship and this Honble
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Court shall seem meet to Assess
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And your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc
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B. Eliz. C.2 S.7.
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