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To the Right Honourable and Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of Gaol
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Delivery for the County of
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September 1761.
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The humble prayer of
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That your petitioner on or about the third day of July last was
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committed to
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charged upon the Oath of
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upon Suspicion of feloniously and traiterously
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colouring over divers pieces of Copper to resemble six pences the
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current Coin of this Realm contrary to the Statute
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That your petitioner on or about the tenth day of July last
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and others upon suspicion of feloniously and traiterously
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colouring over divers pieces of Copper so as to resemble six pences
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the Current Coin of this Realm contrary to the Statute.
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That your petitioner hath been since removed to his Majesty's
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Your petitioner therefore most humbly
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prays that he may be Tried, Bailed
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a Discharged at this present Session of
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Gaol Delivery according to the Statute in
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that case made and provided
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And your petitioner shall ever pray Etc
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