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To the Right Worshipfull their Maties:
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Justices of the Peace at Hixes Hall.
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The humble Petition of
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Richard Longe
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Humbly sheweth
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That your poor aged & disstresed Petitioner; being
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past the Capacity of doing any for a Livelihood by
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reason of my great Aged & infirmities; being a Petitioner
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there 30 Yeares; and had my Pention taken from me
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for 15 Years & had but 15 Shillings a Year in so long
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a time; Hare here humbly besought your Worshipps ye
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you would to grant me Addition of the Pention of
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Henry
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Bradford
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deceased; there being but seven left alive at
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Brainson side; & my Condition being very low home that
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your Worships will grant me an order that I may
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receive it And your Petitioner
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as in Duty bound shall ever
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