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To the Honble: the Bench of Justices
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at Hicks Hall
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The Humble Petition of
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Samuell Addis
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Sheweth
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That at a Tryall before this Honble: Bench last
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Thursday Your Petitr. was fined Ten pounds for a Trespass and
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Assault on one Samll. Sparks
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That Your Petitr. the next day being brot. up from
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New Prison
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before this Honble. Bench, the Court was Pleased out of Compassion
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to your Petitrs. Poor and mean Circumstances to mitigate and
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moderate the Said Fine of Ten pounds to the Sume of forty Shillings
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which Sume of forty Shillings Your Petitr. Since has rais'd amengst
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his friends in order to have paid the Same in hopes to have been
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discharg'd And Yor. Petitr. has also two Genll. releases ready to be
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executed between Yor. Petitr. And the Prosecutor
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Samll. Sparks
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according to the directions of the Court on Paymt. of Forty shillings
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But Your Petitr. to his great Surprize finds by the return of the
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Calendar to the Prison that the Fine of ten pounds stands fully
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charged agt. Yor. Petisr. without the least Notice taken of the Same
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being mitigated and Sett to Forty Shillings. which must needs be
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agreat Mistake of the Clerks. And as your Petitr. is not able
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to pay the Sd. ten pounds
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Yor. Petitr. most humbly prays That Yor. Worshipps and
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order Yor. Petitr. forthwith to be call'd up And that this
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Honble Court will relifie the Mistake in the Calendar and
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accept of the Fine of forty Shillings to be paid as it was
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formerly order'd
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And yor. Petitr Shall ever pray Etc.
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