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To the Right Worshipfull ye Bench of Justice's
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Most Humbly Sheweth
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That your Petr has been in
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these
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Abraham Booth
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his your
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Petrs father in Law on Suspicon of his your Petrs brakeing
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his ye said Booths windows, That your Petr never break
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sd windows and Since his your Petrs Confinemt hath Served ye
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Said Booth wth fair and Legal Sumons's to try & ye Cause but
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being poor and not Able to Employ proper psons Learned in
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ye Law to Appear for and defend your Petrs right was and is
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still kept in prison That through ye means of his your Petrs
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long, Tedious, and unwholesom Restraint he is drove to
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Extream poverty and want in so much that has been Necessitated
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to Sell all his Apparel to Subsist on Therefore humbly hopes
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that as he your Petr has given fair and timely Notice to his
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advarsarry in Order to appear this Day, that he may not
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be continued longer, but dischargeded as to your worships
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Shall Seem meet Etc
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The Premisses Tenderly Considered and in as
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much as your Petr is in Extream poverty and
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want and Intirely ruined by his sd Father in Laws
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Illegal proceedings most humbly Implores
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your worships may take his your Petrs Indigence
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into your wise Consideracons by dischargeing him
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and he as in Duty will Pray
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