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<p n="272"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Midlesex Etc</note>
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To the Rt: Wppfull: her Maties<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace at their<lb></lb>
Generall<del>Quarter</del>
Sessions assembled</p>
<p n="273">The humble Petitions of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50101_n273-1">Susanna Newman</rs>
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late of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50101_geo90"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50101_geo91">St Andrews Holbourn</rs>
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in Midlesex</rs>
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<p n="274"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
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<p n="275">That your Petitioner was Married to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50101_n275-1">John Newman</rs>
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in ye parish Church of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50101_geo92"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50101_geo93">Knights bridge</rs>
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in <lb></lb>
Midlesex</rs>
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on ye. <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50101_date22">28th July Ano Dom 1695</rs>
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, being then in Subflame worth £100: within three<lb></lb>
dayes after Marriages. having get her Substence into his hands' Left your Petitioner and<lb></lb>
Carried away with him all her Substances leaving yr Petitoners: in a Miserable & deplorable<lb></lb>
Condition having nothing to Subsist: Within drop Monthes last past yr Petitioner<lb></lb>
found her sd Husband Cohabiting with our <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50101_n275-2">Ann Fletcher</rs>
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(alias) <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50101_n275-12">Newman</rs>
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: who pretends<lb></lb>
and Confesss to be his Wife and saith she hath been his Wife near 7 years upon searching ye<lb></lb>
Church Book at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50101_geo94">Knights bridge</rs>
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found their names in ye same Married near 7 years who Cohabite<lb></lb>
together and lives in great Splender, but will not allow yr poor Petitiones one penny towards<lb></lb>
her Reliefe Your Petitioner being poor and helpless and having attained to above 60 years<lb></lb>
of ages her Strength & sight fails: being uncapable of getting her based whereby she<lb></lb>
Reduced to that extream Poverty & want that she is utterly late to be last for went of<lb></lb>
Relief: unless prevented by your Wpps Pity and Compassion</p>
<p n="276">Forasmuch as your Petitioner is so poor that she hath not many to take out<lb></lb>
Certificates from ye Register get hath severall Responsible witnesses here present to<lb></lb>
prone her Marriage and the Contents of this Petition to be true</p>
<p n="277">May it please your Wpps to Commisorate her sad Miserable and deplorable Condition <lb></lb>
by Causing her said Husband (who is bound Over) to allow her such Maintenance <lb></lb>
as in your Wpps Wisdom Shall seem meet</p>
<p n="278">And your Petitioner as in duly bound Shall over pray Etc.</p>
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