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To the Honourable Bench of Justicess of
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The humble petition of Mrs
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Eliz: Pighells
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That your petitioner haveing received many wrongs
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losses and abuses by one
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(son of
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Richard Blackham
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) he haveing fraudulently and
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felloniously taken from her a Gold Watch and other
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things of value within your Liberty, and also a sum
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of money at
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to your petitioners
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uller suine, and he being now under prosecution
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for the same, but he with a villanous combination
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of others like himselfe have, and do put sham Acti-
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ons upon your Petitioner, and have had her in close
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Custody the yesterday; and none has another to put upon
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her to provent your petitioner's just prosecution
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unless she be protec
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to have your honours favour and protection in
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order that your petitioner may be at Liberty to
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proceed against him in her just prosecution for
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And your petitioner as in duty
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bound Shall ever pray
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