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To the Right Worshipfull there Majesties
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Justices of the Peace for the County
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of Middlesex:
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the humble Petition
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Christopher Foster
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in ye Parish of St Pancras
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Sheweth.
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That wereas your Petitioner being an Infirme
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man. retired from the
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City of London
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to live
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. The Parishiners of St Pancras
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hune chose him
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Constable
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for this present yeare
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Which office, by Reason of his indisposition he
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is not capable of serving. There being another
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Nominated wth him more fist.
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humbly desires this Court that he
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may be discharged from becoming
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the office of Constable
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