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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Worshipfull the
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That your petr: being a
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who being out of his Lodging att the houre of 10 at might
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with Some worke and att his returne haine was refused
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Entrance whereupon both parties being in a great passion
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a quarrell happend betwixt them, and your petr was carred
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Your Petitioner therefore
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being upwards of 50 yeares, old and sickly
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and miserables poore and noe prosecution
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agt him Most humbly prayes this Honble
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Court to discharge him out of prison wch out
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Fees, he being noe waies able to pay one
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