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To the Honble. Bench of Justices att their
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Sessions of the peace held att
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The humble peticon of
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Sheweth
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That yor. Petitioner being Old, Lame and weaks sighted
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and therefore enable to get by his Labour as he had done
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formerly towards Mentainance of tho Janury & Support
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thereof and
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had a Sister lying long upon his hands lame
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and Bed Red: The Heads of the
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where he last lived before he Removed hither looked on
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him as an Object of their Compassion and Exempted him
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from paying to the poore, which Tavern Cannot be
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obtayned where he now is, the with an due Respect he had
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made his Application, but is answered by the Overseers
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they cannot help it unlesse the Sessions will Relive him
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Yor. Petitioner therefore in the
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Humility appeals to yor Honors and begs
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that his Circumstances may be consider
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and yor. Redresse herein.
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And yor. petitioner as bound
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