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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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St: Johns street July & 12th: 1719
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May it please yor Worships
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About nine a Clock att might my wife & I being att
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supper, and she having a knife in her hand we having
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a few words, I gave her a push and she fell on the
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knife which caus'd a small cutt on her side, her
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friends being frightned and the surgeon making
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things look worse then they were and I having no
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friend by, in their passion they cal'd a constable
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and Carried me directly away to new Prison, the
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next morning I went before justice Booth there
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being then a nother Surgeon pressent besides the
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surgeon who had her in cure, and a gentleman
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with ye apothe cary & they all took their oaths
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that my wife told them that I did not do it
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with design but by an Accident & they likewise
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see P would & they told P Justice that she was
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in no manner of danger, I told Justice tooth
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that I should loose my buissness if he did not
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discharge me that morning upon my giving ba
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& that I had a wife & child to pay and a
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depended on my place, but he would allow of
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no bale, but confin'd my from tuesday till
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saterday night, by which means I have Intirely
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lost my buissness which was my suport, & so
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now I know not how to maintain my family
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I was in the Excise & the quarlifying my self for that
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Imploy has been a great expence to me, I am yor
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Worships most July full humbl. sert:
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Wm. Lee
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