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