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The humble Peticon of
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To the Right Honble:
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Edward Clarke
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Lord Mayor
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; And to the rest of
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the Justices on the Bench at ye Sessions house
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in the
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The humble Peticon of
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Margt: Greenfield
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Sheweth
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That yor. Peticoner was about 15 Weeks Since Comitted
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to the
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Justice Packer for High Treason in Clipping
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the Current Coyne of this Kingdom; and was the Sessions following
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to
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, where she has continu'd ever since in great Want
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an
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without Prosecution upon the Said Comitmt.
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That our Peticonr being a very poor Woman who
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has nothing to his
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but her own hard Endeavours, is reduced to
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the
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her tedious Comitmt, having already con
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two Se
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in Prison, without and Subsistence but what
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St
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She therefore most humbly beings this Honble: Court,
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to comiserate her miserable Condition,
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& to order that she may be either brought
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upon he Trayal this Session, or admitted to
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Bail, according to the Custom of this
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honble Court & pursuant to the Statute in
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that Case made and provided.
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And yor. Peticoner shall ever p
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