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. and others His
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Majesty's
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The Humble Petition of
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Elizabeth Morley
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convicted of receiving Stolen goods and Sentenced for Transportation
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That your Petition reflect with Suicere Regret on her past
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Conduct and acknowledges the Justice of the Sentence Passed upon her
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That your Petition is greatly advanced in years, being 55 year
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of Age, and Though Such Circumstance may at Fist be considered as an
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Aggravation of her Guilt, Yet, When She States, that a along cohabitation with
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a depraved Husband, had gradually conupled her Morals, and that by his
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Brutal Treatment, he Forced her into the Commission of offences in order to
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derive more Securely to Himself, the Profits of such dishonest Transaction, She
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hopes under those Circumstance to excite your Worships pity though She cannot
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clain your Pardon.
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Your Petition has the Mortification to rep
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that She
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brought Disgrace upon Relations of Character, Credit and Respectabily, but who
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notwithstanding her Demerits, have yet assured her, that is She has the good
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Fortune to obtain the merciful Compliance of this Court with the Prayer of
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this Petition they will by a Camfortable Provision enable her to Spend the
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Remainder of her Days in Expitation of her Former inspent Life, and they
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be relived from Anxreties incident to those Possed of Social Passions, and
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which even the unworthiness of your Petitioner has not been able effectually
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to extinguish in there.
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Your Petitioner therefore most Humbly Prays
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Your Worships, will in your Mercy be Pleased to
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reconsider the Sentence Passed on your Petitioner, and
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commite the Transportation, for such Lenght of
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Imprisonment as in your Discretion you may be please
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to inflict.
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And your Petitioner will ever pray Etc
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