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<p n="80">To The Worshipful Bench of Justices.</p>
<p n="81">Hon ye. County of Middlex. att the Genll. quartr. Sessions<lb></lb>
holden att hixes hall.</p>
<p n="82">May it Please Your Worship's.</p>
<p n="83">I was bought up in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50208_geo24"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50208_geo25">Charity School</rs>
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of St. Clemons<lb></lb>
Danes</rs>
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, and Afterwards in Sepr. 1720. was bound an<lb></lb>
Apprentice att the Goynt Charge of the Said parish<lb></lb>
and the Society to which I belonged to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50208_n83-1">Walter Chaloner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who a Year afterward gave five pound with me and two<lb></lb>
suits of verry good Apparel to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50208_n83-2">Wm. Will's</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50208_occ23">Vittler</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now Living att the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50208_geo26"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50208_geo27">Sign of the Pyed Bull</rs>
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in Graysinn Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who takes no Care of me nor Shew any Concern for me so yt.<lb></lb>
I am almost in a naked Condition and ever reduced<lb></lb>
to Clean Shoes in ye. Street for a maintenance out of the<lb></lb>
Little I gain, That way I Can but Just Keep my<lb></lb>
self and pay, for my Lodgings but Considering how Young<lb></lb>
I am and the many Temptections which Attend<lb></lb>
that Life I humbly pray Your Worship's to take my<lb></lb>
unhappy Case to a Consideration and if Your wisdom<lb></lb>
should think so fitt to oblige my mastr. to put me into<lb></lb>
such a deicent Habbitt with the Allowance of Sum of<lb></lb>
money and restore my Indentiores that I may become<lb></lb>
Serviceable in some honest business in London or go to<lb></lb>
Sea and Your humble petitioner as in duty bound<lb></lb>
shall ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="84"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50208_n84-1">Joseph Bentley</rs>
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