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<p n="469">To Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n469-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50682_occ112">Knight</rs>
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<p n="470">The Hble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n470-1">Owen Neill</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n470-2">Dennis Crawley</rs>
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now in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50682_geo266">New<lb></lb>
Prison</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50682_geo267">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and Sentenced to work for three Years on the river Thomas</p>
<p n="471"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That Your Petiitoners fully impressed with a Just conception of your<lb></lb>
knowing Judgment, and truely Sensible now Powerfully the Evidence advanced<lb></lb>
on their tryal must operate agt. them, can not breathe a murmur of his<lb></lb>
content at the fatal issue it produced, but your Honours Petitioner<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
fioling in the unlimited benevolence of your heart, as well as tender See<lb></lb>
lings for the unfortunate, and afflicted, humbly, presence in consideration<lb></lb>
of Their hepless, and wretched familys, to supplicate your gracious<lb></lb>
interference for the mitigation of the hard sentence their conviction<lb></lb>
unavoidably bespoke, your Petr. Neill having five small help<lb></lb>
less Children and a deserving wife almost distracted at the time<lb></lb>
tying and heart breaking prospect of the ruin that must <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
verdably await them as also the aged inform Parents of your<lb></lb>
Petrs Crawley tottering on the verge of dissolution, and bending under<lb></lb>
oppressive woe, at the sheadful apprehension of a final Sepe<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
ration from an unhappy son, on whom labour and industry<lb></lb>
their Support entirely depended: your Petitioners apprized of the<lb></lb>
general resentment that has been long provoked by the Nefarious proe<lb></lb>
tises too frequently exercised in the another trade, have to cameout with<lb></lb>
sorrow, Their hard destiny, in becoming the first devoted<obscured></obscured>
to<lb></lb>
public Prejudice, And to public Justice; yet Your Petrs however<lb></lb>
appearances argued agt. them) do most solemnly and Sincerely<lb></lb>
declare in the presence of Almighty god that they Neither meas<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
nor designd a fraud nor imposition in the sale of the goods made to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n471-1">Mary Dale</rs>
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, which assertor they humbly hope will stand in a<lb></lb>
great measure wined by their upusat of an accommodation off<lb></lb>
ferd and held out by the Prosecution the day previous to their tryal<lb></lb>
Your Petrs. as men whose characters have ever before stood unimpeached and<lb></lb>
whose future shred shall be to render themselves useful to society and to atone for<lb></lb>
this transgussion, humbly appeal to your commiseration in behalf of this<lb></lb>
hapless familys who must either inevitably perish or become burdensome to the<lb></lb>
Animosity Shoud the<obscured></obscured>
of their Sentence be executed agt them<lb></lb>
Deign Wortley Sir from that inexhaustible Store of goodness and Clemency<lb></lb>
Which has so universally distinguished yours character to look on<lb></lb>
Your grieved Petrs. with eyes of Mercy and compassion oalen the<lb></lb>
Sorrows of their Miserable familys and deal to there better Sorrows<lb></lb>
such comfort and alteration as to your Wisdorn and Judgement<lb></lb>
Shall seem meet for which as in Duty Bound your Petrs.<lb></lb>
Will ever Pray</p>
<p n="472">July ye. 2d<lb></lb>
1778</p>
<p n="473"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n473-1">Owen Neill</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50682_n473-2">Dennis Crawley</rs>
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