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<p n="70">To the Honble: the Bench of Justices<lb></lb>
at Hicks Hall</p>
<p n="71">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50213_n71-1">Samuell Addis</rs>
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<p n="72"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That at a Tryall before this Honble: Bench last<lb></lb>
Thursday Your Petitr. was fined Ten pounds for a Trespass and<lb></lb>
Assault on one Samll. Sparks</p>
<p n="73">That Your Petitr. the next day being brot. up from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50213_geo33">New Prison</rs>
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before this Honble. Bench, the Court was Pleased out of Compassion<lb></lb>
to your Petitrs. Poor and mean Circumstances to mitigate and<lb></lb>
moderate the Said Fine of Ten pounds to the Sume of forty Shillings<lb></lb>
which Sume of forty Shillings Your Petitr. Since has rais'd amengst<lb></lb>
his friends in order to have paid the Same in hopes to have been<lb></lb>
discharg'd And Yor. Petitr. has also two Genll. releases ready to be<lb></lb>
executed between Yor. Petitr. And the Prosecutor <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50213_n73-1">Samll. Sparks</rs>
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according to the directions of the Court on Paymt. of Forty shillings<lb></lb>
But Your Petitr. to his great Surprize finds by the return of the<lb></lb>
Calendar to the Prison that the Fine of ten pounds stands fully<lb></lb>
charged agt. Yor. Petisr. without the least Notice taken of the Same<lb></lb>
being mitigated and Sett to Forty Shillings. which must needs be<lb></lb>
agreat Mistake of the Clerks. And as your Petitr. is not able<lb></lb>
to pay the Sd. ten pounds</p>
<p n="74">Yor. Petitr. most humbly prays That Yor. Worshipps and<lb></lb>
order Yor. Petitr. forthwith to be call'd up And that this<lb></lb>
Honble Court will relifie the Mistake in the Calendar and<lb></lb>
accept of the Fine of forty Shillings to be paid as it was<lb></lb>
formerly order'd</p>
<p n="75">And yor. Petitr Shall ever pray Etc.</p>
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