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<p n="372">To the Worshipfull His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50659_occ124">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50659_geo269">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Session of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="373">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50659_n373-1">Thomas Wilson</rs>
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</p>
<p n="374"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most Humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner is now and hath been<lb></lb>
for upwards of twelve Months past one of the Watchmen of the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50659_geo270">Saint Giles in the Fields</rs>
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in the Said County</p>
<p n="375">That your Petitioner being on his duty<lb></lb>
about half an hour after Eleven o Clock on the night of Monday the Eleventh<lb></lb>
day of September last he observed two Men and two Women Standing at the<lb></lb>
end of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50659_geo271">King Street</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50659_geo272">Drury Lane</rs>
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in the Said Parish and they talking very<lb></lb>
Loud he desired them to go along and not disturb the Neighbourhood at<lb></lb>
that unreasonable hour where upon one of the Men Pushed your Petitioner<lb></lb>
down two Several times and then both the Men Run away</p>
<p n="376">That Your Petitioner look hold of the two<lb></lb>
Women who were in the Said two Mens Company and Conducted them to the<lb></lb>
Watchhouse where he left them in Custody of the Constable of the Night</p>
<p n="377">That your Petitioner did not in any wise<lb></lb>
ill treat either of the Said Women but only insisted upon their going to the<lb></lb>
Watchhouse and in the way thither walked behind them When one of them<lb></lb>
(Vizt. Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50659_n377-1">Alexandrina Mason</rs>
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) offered Your Petitioner a Shilling to<lb></lb>
let them go, which he refused having no other Intention than to prevent<lb></lb>
the Inhabitants from being disturbed and that the Women might give an<lb></lb>
Account of themselves and of the Men who were in their Company and<lb></lb>
had made their Escape after ill treating Your Petitioner as Aforesaid</p>
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