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<p n="31">To the Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50778_n31-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50778_occ7">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50778_occ8">Chairman</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
the rest of His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50778_occ9">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50778_geo37">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
their General Session of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="32">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50778_n32-1">John Fletcher</rs>
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late <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50778_occ10">Turnkey</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50778_geo38">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
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<p n="33">Most Humbly Sheweth</p>
<p n="34">That your Petitioner was appointed Turnkey of the said Prison the 27th day of Janry. 1782<lb></lb>
that there is a room over the Lodge in the said prison for the Residence of the Turnkey but on<lb></lb>
account of the great number of Debtors and others confined in the said prison it was<lb></lb>
occupied by them untill the 17th. of December Last at which time the Government Informed your<lb></lb>
petitioner that he might Occupy that Room as other Turnkeys had some</p>
<p n="35">That at the time your petitioner took possession of the said room the Plaistering was broke to pieces<lb></lb>
the Mantle piece destroyed the door Split to pieces the Hearth demolished, and otherwise greatly<lb></lb>
out of repair that your Petitioner immediately caused the same to be repaired at the Following<lb></lb>
Expense Vizt. To Mr. Field for Carpenters Work the sum of £ 1:4:5¼ To Messrs. Bromwick &<lb></lb>
Co. for paper £ 1:2.0. To Mr. Braine for a New Hearth £ 0:11:10. To Mr. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50778_occ11">Taylor</rs>
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for paint<lb></lb>
£0.14: 0 To a Man for Painting Plaistering etc. £ 0.10.6 Making in the Whole the<lb></lb>
sum of Four Pounds Two Shillings and Nine pence Farthing as will appear by the<lb></lb>
Receipts in your Petitioners Possession That the soon was not Finished and John Cited<lb></lb>
by Your Petitioner until the 20th. of January Last and your Petitioner was discharged<lb></lb>
from his said Employ on the 27th of the same Month</p>
<p n="36">Your Petitioner Therefore in Consideration of the Shortness of the time he had possession<lb></lb>
of the said room Most Humbly Prays That your Worships will take his case into<lb></lb>
Consideration and grant him the Moneys so by him Expended as aforesaid or Grant<lb></lb>
him such other Relief as to Your Worships shall seem Meet</p>
<p n="37">And Your Petitioner as in duty bound will Ever Pray</p>
<p n="38"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50778_n38-1">John Fletcher</rs>
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