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<p n="69">To the Worshipful his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ9">Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo46">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General<lb></lb>
Session of the peace assembled</p>
<p n="70">The humble Petition and appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n70-1">Ann</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50807_n70-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ10">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n70-2">William<lb></lb>
Athill</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50807_n70-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo47">parish of Christ Church Spittalfields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo48">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ11">weaver</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="71"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
</p>
<p n="72">That by an order or Conviction under the hands and Seals<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n72-1">John Staples</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n72-2">Samuel Hawkins</rs>
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Esquires two of his Majesties<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ12">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo49">County of Middlesex</rs>
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bearing date<lb></lb>
the nineteenth day of August 1785 your petitioner was convicted<lb></lb>
for unlawfully buying and receiving of one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n72-3">Sarah Heath</rs>
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Six ounces<lb></lb>
Weight of Bengal raw Silk the property of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n72-4">William Hopkins</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo50">Goodmans fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50807_geo51">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50807_occ13">Silk Thrower</rs>
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and Intrust<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
with <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50807_n72-5">Mary Artis</rs>
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to reiced or Manufacture your petitioner well<lb></lb>
knowing the said Silk then before to be purloined and Embezzeid</p>
<p n="73">That your petitioner humbly Conceiver herself aggrieved<lb></lb>
by the said Conviction.</p>
<p n="74">Therefore doth appeal against the Same<lb></lb>
and humbly prays that the said Conviction<lb></lb>
may be quashed and that your petitioner<lb></lb>
may have Such further and other relief<lb></lb>
as to your worships Shall Seem Meet.</p>
<p n="75">And your petitioner Shall ever pray</p>
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