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<p n="335">To P Honrble Bench now Setting at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50104_geo162">old baily</rs>
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<p n="336">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50104_n336-25">Eliz yours</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50104_n336-1">Mary Williams</rs>
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in behalf of themselves & ye rest now in Cusstody at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50104_geo163">Clarken<lb></lb>
-well Bridewell</rs>
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<p n="337"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth,</note>
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That Yor Petition being for divers<lb></lb>
Faults Commited Close Prisonr to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50104_geo164">Clerkenwell bridewell</rs>
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, where not with<lb></lb>
-Standing Yor Ld ships & P Honrble Courts ordr, are detained in a perrishis<lb></lb>
Conticon this twelve weeks beyond ye ordr<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of yor Ld ship & Honrble<lb></lb>
Bench they demanding Fortie Shillings without which was in no wife he<lb></lb>
discharged therefore in this & all othr our wretched Conditions are humble<lb></lb>
hegg yor Ld Ships Havr & Consideration, haveing no othr Dependance for<lb></lb>
Releife ye barbairs, of this place being such at wherevr any poor Peti=<lb></lb>
=nr happens to Hall sick, instend of support, Here Small allowance of one<lb></lb>
helpeny a day is taken from them, or any one taken in Labour, Instead<lb></lb>
of getting helps they are denied of wth helps here To be had, I wants of<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
was to lately yr Loss of one pson Infant, & not with standing this Miserable<lb></lb>
weathr, hear is Hethr Fire or Candle attend unless where with of there<lb></lb>
own to buy it, which Few or none here hath, In pouch ye what<lb></lb>
with Cold, all treatment, & want of food their within ye Space of<lb></lb>
one Mounth hath bin Perrished to death, as appears by oath made<lb></lb>
before ye Ground, & when dead here above Ground for Three or tenn<lb></lb>
dayes<obscured></obscured>
us, whoes Conditions are so very Deplorable yt<lb></lb>
unless ye Honrble Court is pleased to take Compassion an our wretshed<lb></lb>
slate, we shall in little sume Revisable prennst</p>
<p n="338">yor Petinr there Jane humbley begg<lb></lb>
yor Peticon ye Honrble Courts Co<obscured></obscured>
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peticon. p. as i duty yor Petinr shall<lb></lb>
Etc pray</p>
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