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<p n="4">To the Right Honourable <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n4-1">Thomas Rawlinson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50423_occ4">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50423_occ5">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50423_geo15">City of-<lb></lb>
London</rs>
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and the Rest of his Majestys Justices of Goal delivery for Newgate in<lb></lb>
Session assembled.</p>
<p n="5">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n5-1">John Sherman</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
poor <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50423_occ6">Prisoner</rs>
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now under Confinement in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50423_geo16">Newgate Goal</rs>
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<p n="6"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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<p n="7">That your Petitioner on the third day of November last was<lb></lb>
Committed by I Fielding <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50423_occ7">Esqr</rs>
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to the Gatehouse Prison Changed<lb></lb>
upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n7-2">John Mason</rs>
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on a Violent Suspicion of having<lb></lb>
Feloniously taken and Carryed away a Quantity of Brandy and<lb></lb>
Rum the Property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n7-3">John Mason</rs>
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against the Peace Etc<lb></lb>
And for further Examination</p>
<p n="8">That Your Humble Petitioner on the fifth day of November last<lb></lb>
was Detained in Custody Changed upon the Oath of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n8-1">John<lb></lb>
Mason</rs>
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and One <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n8-10">Samuel Leper</rs>
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for feloniously taking and Carrying<lb></lb>
away a Great Quantity of Rum and Brandy the Properly of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n8-2">John Mason</rs>
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against the Peace Etc and him Safely to<lb></lb>
keep untill Discharged by due Course of Law as by the said<lb></lb>
several Committments may Appear</p>
<p n="9">That your Humble Petitioner Dreading the Confinement<lb></lb>
of a Goal and the more so as he is very Poor and Destitute of<lb></lb>
Money and Friends And being Conscious of his Innocence<lb></lb>
and Integrity Therefore he most Humbly Prays that he<lb></lb>
maybe Tryed this Present Sessions or that he may be Bailed<lb></lb>
or acquitted as to this Honorable Court shall seem<lb></lb>
meet</p>
<p n="10">And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray Etc.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50423_n10-1">John Sherman</rs>
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