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<p n="18">To the Right Worshipfull ye Bench of Justice's<lb></lb>
Now Sitting on ye Bench at Hicks's Hall</p>
<p n="19">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50217_n19-1">Peter Matson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50217_n19-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50217_occ6">Prisoner</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50217_occ6" type="occupation" value="Prisoner"></interp>
<lb></lb>
in ye <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50217_geo6">Bailedock</rs>
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<p n="20"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most Humbly Sheweth</note>
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<p n="21">That your Petr has been in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50217_geo7">New prison</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50217_geo7" type="type" value="site"></interp>
these<lb></lb>
three months past at ye Suite of one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50217_n21-1">Abraham Booth</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50217_n21-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
his your<lb></lb>
Petrs father in Law on Suspicon of his your Petrs brakeing<lb></lb>
his ye said Booths windows, That your Petr never break<lb></lb>
sd windows and Since his your Petrs Confinemt hath Served ye<lb></lb>
Said Booth wth fair and Legal Sumons's to try & ye Cause but<lb></lb>
being poor and not Able to Employ proper psons Learned in<lb></lb>
ye Law to Appear for and defend your Petrs right was and is<lb></lb>
still kept in prison That through ye means of his your Petrs<lb></lb>
long, Tedious, and unwholesom Restraint he is drove to<lb></lb>
Extream poverty and want in so much that has been Necessitated<lb></lb>
to Sell all his Apparel to Subsist on Therefore humbly hopes<lb></lb>
that as he your Petr has given fair and timely Notice to his<lb></lb>
advarsarry in Order to appear this Day, that he may not<lb></lb>
be continued longer, but dischargeded as to your worships<lb></lb>
Shall Seem meet Etc</p>
<p n="22">The Premisses Tenderly Considered and in as<lb></lb>
much as your Petr is in Extream poverty and<lb></lb>
want and Intirely ruined by his sd Father in Laws<lb></lb>
Illegal proceedings most humbly Implores<lb></lb>
your worships may take his your Petrs Indigence<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
into your wise Consideracons by dischargeing him<lb></lb>
and he as in Duty will Pray</p>
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