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To the Honble: the Chairman and to the rest
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of the Honoble: Justices
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The humble Petition of
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Mary Thompson
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Widdow
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Sheweth
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That your Petr. liveing with one Mr. Green a Brewer in
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Leather Lane
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as
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Nurse
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, had the misfortune to loose Three Gold Rings (to the Vallue of forty
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Shillings (or thereabouts) by putting the said Rings into the Cradle wherein her
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Nurse Child was, untill Such time as She the said Nurse went downe into the
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Kitchin to wash some Lynnen for the said Child, and in the mean while
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left one
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Elizabeth Ogle
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the
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Cooke maid
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to Rock the said Child who in yr.
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Petrs. absence it is Supposed tooke away the said Rings, And yor. Petrs. some
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little tyme after Searching for her Rings where shee had laid them in
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the Cradle, and missing of them did Question the said Ogle about
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them and at last had her beforeBucke Esqr. one of their majties
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Justices Etc. but some few dayes after the Chamber maid and the said
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Ogle fumbling together the
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humble maid saith Shee found the Said
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Rings in a Chaire in the Gamett which said three Rings are now in
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the hands of Mr. Pope the Constable
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That your Petr. by mason of the said Accident hath lost her
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said place and over since been at one Expence or other to your
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Petrs. exceeding great Damage
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Your Pet. Therefore most humble prays this Honable:
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Bench to take your Petrs. case into Consideration
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(shee haveing a Small Child to mainteyne and
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nothing to depend upon) And that your Honrs.
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will be favourably pleased to Order the said
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Constable to deliver to yor Petr. her said Rings. or
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otherwise as to your Honrs. Shall Seem meet
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And Yor. Petr: as in Duty bound
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Shall ever pray Etc.
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