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To the
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Right Honourable
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Mainwaring
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and the rest of the
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Majistrates at the present Session Assembled
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The Humble Petition of
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John Farmer
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner was Tried and convicted for a
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Misdemeanor on the 31st. day of Octr. last.
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That your Petitioner was sentenced to be confined for
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the term of two years in the
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New Prison
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Clerkenwell
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and
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in the Course of that time to stand once in the Pillory.
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That your Petitioners Character was before this
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unfortunate circumstances intirely unimpeached and if the
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heavy Sentence pronounced against him is put in full
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force (particularly that
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of standing in the Pillory) it will
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Tend to his utter Ruin as his Character will be totally lost
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which will render him incapable of obtaining a
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Livelihood by his Trade at the Expiration of his Time.
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We whose Names are hereunto
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Subscribed do Recommend and
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humbly hope that the Petitioner
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into be considered as an Object
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of Mercy.}
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Your Petitioner therefore
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most humbly hopes that your
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Worships will be pleased to
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Commissorate his unfortunate situation
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and aften his Sentence in such
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manner as in Your great Wisdon
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may seem Meet
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Robt. Fouravre
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Grocer
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No. 4 worship St
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John Lyon
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Shoreditch
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John Prosser
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Greys Jone Lane
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James Settle
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SGrays Junr
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E Swainson, Same Place.
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Gabriel Mc Lean
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Do
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And Your Petitioner as in
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Duty bound will ever Pray
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Thomas Waite
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head of Greys
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Jno.
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Farmer
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Richd Gange
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No 62
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White Cross Street
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Cheesmonger
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