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To the Worshipful his Majesties
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Session of the Peace Assembled.
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The Humble Petition and appeal of
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Elizabeth Magson
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Sheweth
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Your Petitioners Husband died in Ann in the latter and of the year 1774
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That your Petitioner has Lodgd with one Mrs. Hopp of the
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for upwards of three years and has always
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done her best Endeavours to get a Livelyhood but being deprived of her Husbands
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Assistance and being in great distress our Petitioner Applyed to the
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Officers of the
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for relief (her Husband having inform
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her) that he was born there but your Petitioner was refus'd
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your Petitioner Applyed to the Lord Mayor of the
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your Petitioner to the said
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where your Petitioner
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Continued about three Months in the work house of the said Parish and
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then finding that she could get Work to do went out of the said
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on
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her own Account your Petitioner was soon after taken Ill and Apply'd again
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to one of the Overseers of the said
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that your Petitioner was then examined by the Committe
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of the said Parish respecting her last legal Settlement when she inform'd
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them that her Husband was born in the said
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and that
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he never did any other Act or Deed to gain a Subsequent Settlement unless
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by her Renting a House at
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at the yearly Rent of £8 PAnnum for
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which she paid some Taxes but what Tax she knew not
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That the Examination of your Petitioner concern
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her Settlement as aforesaid was put down in Writing but that she on
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reading same declared that she never heard of her Husbands Father
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Mother ever keeping a
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but inform'd them tha
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