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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Worthy Sr
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Pardon my Rudeness in Writing to you
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But Necessity the mother of Inventions Causes the
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Troubling of you Namely. yt. I am A poor distressed
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prisoner now In in
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Allmost Starved for
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want having bin in Goal
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Nine Weeks and
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with Lyeth upon the Boards the Use of My limbs is
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taken from me And Worthy Sr. What Ads more to
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Grief Is yt. I have a wife and three Small Children
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St. I was Indicted In August Sessions last
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and pleaded to my Indictmt the last Sessions
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Guilty and Now lyety for my Court fees And worthy good
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Sd. if you'l please to take this my Deplorable Case
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Into Consideration And forgive me my Court fees
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your poor Unfortunate prisoner & Wife and Children
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Shall Ever be bound to pray Etc
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Octor 9o 1732
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