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<p n="552">To the Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50763_occ253">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50763_geo799">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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in the General quarter Session holden in January<lb></lb>
1783 assembled</p>
<p n="553">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50763_n553-1">James Crozier</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50763_occ254">Governor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50763_geo800">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50763_geo801">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<p n="554">Sheweth<lb></lb>
That in the Month of July 1781 Your Petitioner<lb></lb>
was through Your Worships favour appointed <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50763_occ255">Governor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50763_geo802">House<lb></lb>
of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50763_geo803">Clerkenwell</rs>
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soon after which time Your Petitioner<lb></lb>
was afflicted with a very Violent nervous disorder which frequently<lb></lb>
rendered him incapable of attending to the Duties of the Office.</p>
<p n="555">On this account Your Petitioner was obliged to<lb></lb>
repose a great degree of confidence in the Servants and to rely often<lb></lb>
upon their integrity and care alone In a situation like his any<lb></lb>
dependence upon another must be attended with risque and<lb></lb>
danger; the truth of which he has unfortunately and fatally experienced<lb></lb>
fatal and unfortunate as the experience hath turned out to him he<lb></lb>
trusts when his situation in respect to health shall be adverted<lb></lb>
to he shall be deemed an object rather of compassion than of censure <lb></lb>
Want of health may be a calamity but cannot be a crime, he therefore<lb></lb>
hopes that Gentlemen will kindly look to disapprobation. It was allways<lb></lb>
his inclination to execute the duties of his office with such a degree of<lb></lb>
assiduity and integrity as would have reflected credit on himself and<lb></lb>
would not have disgraced those who had done him the honour to<lb></lb>
recommend and support him. The disorder with which he is<lb></lb>
afflicted has increased of late to such a degree that his Life is not.<lb></lb>
only Precarious but Curshensome and as he is rendered incapable<lb></lb>
of executing <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50763_geo804">the common</rs>
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duties of Life with ease and comfort he</p>
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