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<p n="223">To the Right Honourable and Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of Gaol<lb></lb>
Delivery for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50501_geo145">Middx</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50501_geo146">Justice Hall in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50501_geo147">old bailey</rs>
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</rs>
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assembled<lb></lb>
September 1761.</p>
<p n="224">The humble prayer of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50501_n224-1">John Bradford</rs>
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</p>
<p n="225"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your petitioner on or about the third day of July last was<lb></lb>
committed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50501_geo148">New prison</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50501_geo149">Clerkenwell</rs>
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charged upon the Oath of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50501_n225-1">John Brewer</rs>
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upon Suspicion of feloniously and traiterously<lb></lb>
colouring over divers pieces of Copper to resemble six pences the<lb></lb>
current Coin of this Realm contrary to the Statute</p>
<p n="226">That your petitioner on or about the tenth day of July last<lb></lb>
was detained in the same prison charged upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50501_n226-1">John<lb></lb>
Brewer</rs>
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and others upon suspicion of feloniously and traiterously<lb></lb>
colouring over divers pieces of Copper so as to resemble six pences<lb></lb>
the Current Coin of this Realm contrary to the Statute.</p>
<p n="227">That your petitioner hath been since removed to his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Gaol of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50501_geo150">Newgate</rs>
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<p n="228">Your petitioner therefore most humbly<lb></lb>
prays that he may be Tried, Bailed<lb></lb>
a Discharged at this present Session of<lb></lb>
Gaol Delivery according to the Statute in<lb></lb>
that case made and provided</p>
<p n="229">And your petitioner shall ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="230"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50501_n230-1">John Bradford</rs>
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