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<p n="439">To the Right Worshipful his<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50510_occ101">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo222">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at their General Session<lb></lb>
Assembled</p>
<p n="440">The Humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n440-1">John<lb></lb>
James</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50510_n440-1" type="surname" value="James"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50510_n440-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
now a prisoner in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo223">Newgate</rs>
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<p n="441">For Stealing from<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n441-1">Joseph Agit</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50510_n441-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Four Fowls of<lb></lb>
the Value of Eight pence<lb></lb>
and One petty coat of the Value<lb></lb>
of One penny</p>
<p n="442"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most Humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your petitioner being Convicted at this<lb></lb>
present Session for the above Offence and being now<lb></lb>
Sensible of the Laws provided against such Male factors<lb></lb>
and Offenders and the Punishments thereon Most Humbly<lb></lb>
Submitt to your Worshipp's Judgment and that your<lb></lb>
petitioner may be Admitted to some Corporal punishmt.<lb></lb>
Instead of Transportation</p>
<p n="443">And your petitioner<lb></lb>
shall ever pray Etc.</p>
<p n="444">We the prosecutor Joseph Agit abovementioned and<lb></lb>
the Minister Church Wardens Overseers the poor of the<lb></lb>
parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo224">Saint Andrew Holborn</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo225">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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above mentioned Do hereby Humbly Certifye<lb></lb>
that we have known the above petitioner <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n444-2">John James</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50510_n444-2" type="surname" value="James"></interp>
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<lb></lb>
and hath not known him to be Guilty of any Felony<lb></lb>
Burglary or any such Offences and Humbly Recommend<lb></lb>
to the Worshipfull his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50510_occ102">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at their Session abovesaid to such Mercy as your<lb></lb>
Worships shall seem Fetting and Save him from Transportant.</p>
<p n="445"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n445-1">Joseph Ayitt</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50510_n445-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
prosecutor<lb></lb>
Church wardens Etc.</p>
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