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To the Worsipfull the Justices of
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The Peace for the County of Middlesx
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The humble Petition of
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Ann pendlebury
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Leonard Shorditch
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Widow
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Sheweth
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Your poor petitioner being a very poor woman Aged Sixty
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years and upwards and hath been a Long time afflicted with
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the rumatism and tissick which hath rendred her incapable
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of aney worck or earning any thing towards her Subsistance
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So that She was fored to apply her Self to the Churchwardens
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for relief but the very Churlishly denide heer
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times
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but att Last ye did promise to alow her two shill per month
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which will hardly Sustain Nature She Likewise applyd her self
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to Justise harwood and he told her be wold have Nothing to do
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with it which forces her to trouble your Worships with
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this petition humbly beying your worships goodness and
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Compassion for her Necessity Shall think meet
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and your poore Petition
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as in Duty bound
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Shall ever pray
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Decr 9th 1725
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