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<p n="54">To The Worship full Bench of Justices<lb></lb>
Sitting att <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50201_geo20">Hicks Hall</rs>
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<p n="55">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50201_n55-1">Edward Bird</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50201_n55-2">Francis Bird</rs>
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<p n="56"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Shew</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioners together with one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50201_n56-1">John Martin</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Indicted Last Sessions For Assaulting <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50201_n56-2">Martha Harris</rs>
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To wch Indictmt.<lb></lb>
yor. Petrs. being Persons ignorant in Mres of Law Pleaded not<lb></lb>
Guilty and For want of Bail were Remanded Back to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50201_geo21">New Prison</rs>
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<lb></lb>
where they had been Some time before Last Sessions and are now<lb></lb>
Still Confined</p>
<p n="57">That your Petitionrs. are very Poor and not in a Capacity<lb></lb>
to Traverse the Sd. Indictment By reason of their Extream Poverty<lb></lb>
Therefore Yor. Petrs. wave their Former Plea and Plead Guilty</p>
<p n="58">Yor. Petrs. Therefore humbly Crave yor<lb></lb>
Worships Tender Consideration of their<lb></lb>
Deplorable Circumstances and that Yor.<lb></lb>
Worshipps will be Pleased to Order yor.<lb></lb>
Petrs. to be Brought before the Court in Order<lb></lb>
to Wave their Said Plea and Plead Guilty<lb></lb>
and Further to Submitt to Such Order<lb></lb>
and Direccons in the Pr.misses As to yor<lb></lb>
Worships Shall Seem meet</p>
<p n="59">And Yor. Petrs. Shall Ever Pray Etc</p>
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