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<p n="321">To <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n321-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ162">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ163">Chairman</rs>
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and the rest of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ164">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo163">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Session of the Peace<lb></lb>
held for the said County on Thursday the 31st. day of May 1781<lb></lb>
Assembled</p>
<p n="322">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n322-1">James Crozier</rs>
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<p n="323"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That Your Petitioner having been informed<lb></lb>
that the office of Governor or Keeper of the House of Correction<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo164">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo165">County of Middlesex</rs>
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is become<lb></lb>
Vacant by the Resignation of Mr Hall and that your<lb></lb>
Worships will proceed this Session to the choice of a New <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ165">Keeper</rs>
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of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo166">House of Correction</rs>
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he therefore humbly offers himself<lb></lb>
to Your Worships as a Candidate for the said office and begs leave<lb></lb>
to assure you that if he shall be so happy as to be Elected he will<lb></lb>
always make it the object of his utmost Endeavours and application<lb></lb>
to merit your Worships favor and approbation by a Diligent<lb></lb>
and faithful discharge of the duties of his office a ready obedience<lb></lb>
to your Worships Commands and a careful decent and humane<lb></lb>
behaviour to the Prisoners committed to his charge and Custody</p>
<p n="324">That Your Petitioner has for upwards of Fourteen<lb></lb>
Years served His Grace the Duke of Northumberland in several<lb></lb>
offices of considerable trust in consequence whereof his Character<lb></lb>
and Behaviour is well known to his Grace and he hopes has<lb></lb>
been entirely satisfactory to him which your Petitioner flatters<lb></lb>
himself will be some ground for inducing your Worships to<lb></lb>
believe that he is not unqualified for the Trust he now intreats<lb></lb>
you to Repose in him</p>
<p n="325">And Your Petitioner as in Duty<lb></lb>
bound will ever Pray Etc.</p>
<p n="326"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n326-1">James Crozier</rs>
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