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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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October 16. 1775
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Sir I Rceived a letter from you in forming me that unless I drew
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my Recognizance that my goods & Chattles where liable to be seized
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this is to inform you that I am a very poor man & that my family
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are now in very Great disstress & that I have neither goods nor Chatles
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& that I was at your house this morning for advice & your not being
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at home was the Cause of my making so bold us to troubl you with
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these fines hoping as you have a thorrough feeling for a poor man that
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you will be so good as to send me a few lines by the penny post
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to lett me know the properest time to wait uppon you & as to paying
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the fine it is out of my power But there is a posibility of its being
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midigated I am willing to pay all in my power
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from your poor afflicted humble servant to Command
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John Parker
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P S my poor family will miss the loss of time wich I Lost Coming to
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