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<p n="857">To the Worshipfull the Magistrates<lb></lb>
at the Sessions House on <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50854_geo423">Clerkenwell Green</rs>
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<p n="858">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50854_n858-1">James Tucker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50854_occ188">Prisoner</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50854_geo424">New Prison Clerkenwell</rs>
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for Bastardy</p>
<p n="859">Most humbly Sheweth<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner hath been confined here<lb></lb>
for the space of Eighteen Weeks and upwards in a<lb></lb>
during which time he hath unhappily experienced<lb></lb>
the want of almost every necessary of Life having<lb></lb>
had nothing else to subsist on but the Goal allowance</p>
<p n="860">That in this State of Mistery and Distress<lb></lb>
it is totally out of your Petitioners power for want<lb></lb>
of Friends to procure sufficient Bondsmen to<lb></lb>
indemnify the Parish against any Charges on this<lb></lb>
occasion.</p>
<p n="861">Your Petitioner Therefore most<lb></lb>
humbly implores your Worships to<lb></lb>
take his deplorable Case into your<lb></lb>
consideration: Most humbly beseeching<lb></lb>
you to permit him to enter his own<lb></lb>
Recognizance; your Petitioner hereby<lb></lb>
offering in future should it ever be<lb></lb>
in his Power to do every necessary<lb></lb>
act to discharge the Parish against<lb></lb>
such an Incumbrance</p>
<p n="862">And Your Petitioner as in duty<lb></lb>
bound shall ever pray Etc</p>
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