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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Worshipfull the Magistrates
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at the Sessions House on
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The Humble Petition of
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James Tucker
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for Bastardy
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Most humbly Sheweth
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That your Petitioner hath been confined here
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for the space of Eighteen Weeks and upwards in a
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during which time he hath unhappily experienced
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the want of almost every necessary of Life having
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had nothing else to subsist on but the Goal allowance
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That in this State of Mistery and Distress
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it is totally out of your Petitioners power for want
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of Friends to procure sufficient Bondsmen to
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indemnify the Parish against any Charges on this
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occasion.
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Your Petitioner Therefore most
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humbly implores your Worships to
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take his deplorable Case into your
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consideration: Most humbly beseeching
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you to permit him to enter his own
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Recognizance; your Petitioner hereby
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offering in future should it ever be
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in his Power to do every necessary
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act to discharge the Parish against
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such an Incumbrance
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And Your Petitioner as in duty
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bound shall ever pray Etc
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