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now living at four month and desired in Order to get at the Truth of
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being desired so to do though at the same time your Petitioner
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that he said Examination was not right nor was she inform'd that the
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to the said Pass Contain'd a reference where in your Petitioner was
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and had been Apprenhended as such by one
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That your Petitioner on the 1st day of March last was
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Smith said Work house to the House of the Reverend Mr. Mayo one of
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his Majesty's
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where your
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Petitioner has been since inform'd that she was Charged before the said Justice
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of the said Thomas Lithgow with being a Vagabond (vizt.) Wandering abroad and
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in the Open
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in the said
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That the said Reverend Mr. Mayo did not acquaint your
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Thomas Lithgow.
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That your Petitioner was by the said Vagrant Pass forth
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with Convey'd by the said Thomas Lithgow from the said
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and there delivered to one of the
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Overseers of the Poor.
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That your Petitioner Lodg'd in the said
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three years and upwards preceding her being Convey'd from thence as
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aforesaid and never Wandered abroad and laid in the Open Air as stated
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that the said Pass nor committed any Petr. of vagrancy whatsoever either in
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or Elswhere but on the Contrary hath
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Constantly demean'd herself in a decent and reputable manner and never
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was in a Situation to be allowd under the Odious discription of a Vagabond
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That your Petitioner conceives herself Aggrieved by the Act
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of the said Justice in having sign'd the before mentioned Pass declaring that
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your Petitioner had been Apprehened as a Vagabond and by your Petitioner
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having been convey'd as such out of the said
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