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