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<p n="416">To the Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50745_n416-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50745_occ132">Esqr</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and the Rest of the Worshipfull Justices's of the<lb></lb>
Peace now Sitting at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50745_geo462">Hicks Hall</rs>
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<p n="417">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50745_n417-1">Margaret Hedge</rs>
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<p n="418"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most Humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your book Petitioner was in<lb></lb>
Sept Sessions Last Indicted for making an Assault<lb></lb>
on <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50745_n418-1">Sarah</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50745_occ133">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50745_n418-2">Samuel Whitehead</rs>
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and that & your<lb></lb>
Poor Petitioner yesterday Settled the Affair and Obtain'd a<lb></lb>
General Release from the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50745_n418-3">Sarah Whitehead</rs>
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& your<lb></lb>
Poor Petitioner hath Apply'd to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50745_occ134">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
Order to Withdraw her Recognizance and Obtain, her<lb></lb>
Discharge from the said Indictment but had not money<lb></lb>
Enough your Poor Petitioner being in Very Low Circumstance<lb></lb>
being Oblig'd to Pawn my things to Qaire What Like I<lb></lb>
have got being Half a Guinea & am how Town Lying<lb></lb>
& my Husband been Gone to sea this Six Months & nobody<lb></lb>
to help me</p>
<p n="419">Your Poor Petitioner<lb></lb>
therefore Humbly Prays that you ll take her Case<lb></lb>
into your Consideration & Release her for that Sum<lb></lb>
for Which your Poor Petitioner Will as</p>
<p n="420">Octr 16th 1781</p>
<p n="421">in Duty Bound<lb></lb>
Ever Pray</p>
<p n="422">The Mark<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50745_n422-1">Margaret Hedges</rs>
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