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To the Honble Chairman and to the rest of the
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Justices Assigned to hold the Sessions of the peace for
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the County of
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in the aforesaid
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The Humble Petition of
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Edward Hudson
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner and his
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were at the last Sessions
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of Oyer and Terminer held at Justice
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and
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Hall in the
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Old Bailey
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tried
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on an Indictment On the Coventry Act by the present Prosecutor
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Lawrence Berry
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and his Accomplices
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John Wright
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Thomas Osborne
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and were Acquitted
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That thereupon the said Berry indicted me only At the Same
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Sessions for an Assault and your Petr. pleaded to the Same
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That the Indictment on wch your Petr. now Stands indicted is
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for An Assault (on which Your Petr hopes to be tryed this day) is
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for One and the Same Offence with that your Petr. and his Wife were
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Acquitted
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That your Petr. did on Wednesday last cause the Prosecutor
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to be serv'd with Notice that your Petr. intended to take
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his Trial this Sessions before your Worships in this Honble Court
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And the person who Served the Same is ready to make Oath of the
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Service thereof
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That your Petr. and his
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Wife
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were on the first Indictment
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confined in Newegate upward of Eight weeks
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That your Petr. has continued in Gaol for these 15 Week together
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and must be inevitably ruined if these Prosecutions are postponed
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Therefore Your Petr. most humbly Implores this
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Honble Court will Order your Petrs. Trial may be
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heard this Sessions So that your Petrs. (who doubts
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not but it will Appear to the Satisfaction of this Court
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that he is no wife Guilty of the Assault laid to
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his Charged
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And
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may thereby be Acquitted and if
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otherwise to be punished in Such port as to this
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Honble Court Shall think most proper and
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convenient
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And your Petr. as in Duly
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Bound Shall ever pray Etc
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