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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Right Worshipful
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Bench of Justices
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May it please your Worships.
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Your humble Petitioner
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Mary Rogers
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desires your Worships
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will take into your wise Consideration the Indictment
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the is laid to my Charge.
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The Case is this
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I am accus'd by one Mr.
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Hill Tompson
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of Clandestinely
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keeping his Goods, the which I am Innocent off, farther more
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he threatened me, to put me in Prison and told me
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he had a person that swore the thing against me
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and told me he would deliver up the Affidavit to me
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if I would make hime Satisfaction, upon the which
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being Suppris'd I gave him my Note for four Guineas
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according to his demand, this being done, he had no Affidavit
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against me, Neither was there any thing in it, but now
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this Day he has taken a person out of Prison to sever
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falsly against me one of no reputation, at all for
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as soon as the thing is done she must be deliver'd to
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Prison again
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Your humble Petitioner
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