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at their General Session
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For Stealing from
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Four Fowls of
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Most Humbly Sheweth
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That your petitioner being Convicted at this
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present Session for the above Offence and being now
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Sensible of the Laws provided against such Male factors
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and Offenders and the Punishments thereon Most Humbly
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Submitt to your Worshipp's Judgment and that your
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petitioner may be Admitted to some Corporal punishmt.
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Instead of Transportation
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And your petitioner
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shall ever pray Etc.
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We the prosecutor Joseph Agit abovementioned and
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the Minister Church Wardens Overseers the poor of the
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above mentioned Do hereby Humbly Certifye
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John James
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and hath not known him to be Guilty of any Felony
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Burglary or any such Offences and Humbly Recommend
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at their Session abovesaid to such Mercy as your
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Worships shall seem Fetting and Save him from Transportant.
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