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<p n="279">To <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50532_n279-1">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50532_occ95">Esqr</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50532_occ96">Chairman and the West</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Worshipfull Bench of Justices now Assembled at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo273">Hick's Hall</rs>
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<p n="280">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50532_n280-1">Thomas Hopkins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50532_occ97">Keeper of<lb></lb>
the House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo274">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<p n="281"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Worships Petitioner has now a Prisoners<lb></lb>
Committed to his Custody for Three months in the mean time to be<lb></lb>
three Times Publickly Whipt in the Market Place of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo275">Endfield</rs>
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, for having<lb></lb>
but Down a Beech Fee in his Majestys Chace of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50532_geo276">Endfield</rs>
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her Name is<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50532_n281-2">Mary Halsey</rs>
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<p n="282">That your Worships Petitioner's Prodecessours has<lb></lb>
been at a Very Great Expence in Attending the Prisoners to the<lb></lb>
Place of Punishment upon the Same Occasions, and as your<lb></lb>
Worship's Petitioner has a Large Family he Humbly Begs<lb></lb>
Your Worship's will take his Case into Consideration to grant<lb></lb>
Your Petitioner Such Allowances for the Conveyance of the<lb></lb>
Above Prisoner to her Place of Punishment, as your Worships<lb></lb>
in Your Great Wisdom Shall Think most Proper</p>
<p n="283"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">23 Febry 1764</note>
<lb></lb>
And as in Duty Bound Your Worship's<lb></lb>
Petitioner Will Ever Pray Etc</p>
<p n="284"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50532_n284-1">Thomas Hopkins</rs>
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