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held for the said County on Thursday the 31st. day of May 1781
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Assembled
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That Your Petitioner having been informed
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that the office of Governor or Keeper of the House of Correction
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at
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Vacant by the Resignation of Mr Hall and that your
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Worships will proceed this Session to the choice of a New
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he therefore humbly offers himself
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to Your Worships as a Candidate for the said office and begs leave
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to assure you that if he shall be so happy as to be Elected he will
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always make it the object of his utmost Endeavours and application
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to merit your Worships favor and approbation by a Diligent
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to your Worships Commands and a careful decent and humane
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That Your Petitioner has for upwards of Fourteen
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Years served His Grace the Duke of Northumberland in several
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offices of considerable trust in consequence whereof his Character
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and Behaviour is well known to his Grace and he hopes has
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been entirely satisfactory to him which your Petitioner flatters
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himself will be some ground for inducing your Worships to
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believe that he is not unqualified for the Trust he now intreats
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