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<p n="113">To the Honble Chairman and to the rest of the<lb></lb>
Justices Assigned to hold the Sessions of the peace for<lb></lb>
the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50448_geo69">Middx</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50448_geo70">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in the aforesaid<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="114">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50448_n114-1">Edward Hudson</rs>
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now a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50448_occ45">Prisoner</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50448_geo71">Newgate</rs>
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<p n="115"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
</p>
<p n="116">That your Petitioner and his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50448_occ46">Wife</rs>
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were at the last Sessions<lb></lb>
of Oyer and Terminer held at Justice<del>and</del>
Hall in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50448_geo72">Old Bailey</rs>
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tried<lb></lb>
on an Indictment On the Coventry Act by the present Prosecutor<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50448_n116-1">Lawrence Berry</rs>
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and his Accomplices <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50448_n116-2">John Wright</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50448_n116-3">Thomas Osborne</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and were Acquitted</p>
<p n="117">That thereupon the said Berry indicted me only At the Same<lb></lb>
Sessions for an Assault and your Petr. pleaded to the Same</p>
<p n="118">That the Indictment on wch your Petr. now Stands indicted is<lb></lb>
for An Assault (on which Your Petr hopes to be tryed this day) is<lb></lb>
for One and the Same Offence with that your Petr. and his Wife were<lb></lb>
Acquitted</p>
<p n="119">That your Petr. did on Wednesday last cause the Prosecutor<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50448_n119-1">Lawrence Berry</rs>
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to be serv'd with Notice that your Petr. intended to take<lb></lb>
his Trial this Sessions before your Worships in this Honble Court<lb></lb>
And the person who Served the Same is ready to make Oath of the<lb></lb>
Service thereof</p>
<p n="120">That your Petr. and his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50448_occ47">Wife</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50448_occ47" type="occupation" value="Wife"></interp>
were on the first Indictment<lb></lb>
confined in Newegate upward of Eight weeks</p>
<p n="121">That your Petr. has continued in Gaol for these 15 Week together<lb></lb>
and must be inevitably ruined if these Prosecutions are postponed</p>
<p n="122">Therefore Your Petr. most humbly Implores this<lb></lb>
Honble Court will Order your Petrs. Trial may be<lb></lb>
heard this Sessions So that your Petrs. (who doubts<lb></lb>
not but it will Appear to the Satisfaction of this Court<lb></lb>
that he is no wife Guilty of the Assault laid to<lb></lb>
his Charged<del>And</del>
may thereby be Acquitted and if<lb></lb>
otherwise to be punished in Such port as to this<lb></lb>
Honble Court Shall think most proper and<lb></lb>
convenient</p>
<p n="123">And your Petr. as in Duly<lb></lb>
Bound Shall ever pray Etc</p>
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