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To The Honorble Sir
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John Gonson
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Chairman
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& the Rest of his Majesties
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Justices of Peace
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Etca . Etca.
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Robert Paterson
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Prisoner
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for Debt
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in the Gatehouse
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Westminster
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With due Respect most humbly Sheweth.
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That your honor's Petitr. having been So often & vileby
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abased, assaulted, & in danger of my Life by Fr: Geary theepet
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am advised before I go further to lay before this Honorble. Court
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what followeth Vizt.
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On Sunday 10 June last Sd. Fr. Geary did in a most rade &
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impudent manner, assault my wife by taking her by the
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Shoulders violently pushing her backwards out of his door Etc
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tearing her Cloaths calling her bitch & whose, And all this
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without any provocation, She only going to visit a Gentle as
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Debtor who lodged in the house of sd. Geary. And;
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On Wednsday 27 June aforesd. he the Sd. Geary did
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in a most unbecoming way, come & pull by the arm my wife out
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of his Yard, a place which every prisoner that has the free-
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dom of, is oblidged to pay 3s.6d. under the name of garnish
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and pushed her out of sd. door, dragging her along, at same
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time grievously pinching her side, calling her bitch &
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whose, & many other opprobious names I noutting, as-
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saulting
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, & posseby abusing me, threatning me much
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holding his fist to the Side of my head, who durst not do
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any thing in her or my behalf, for he would have sworn
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mutiny Etca. against me. And;
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On Thursday 2d. August Inst Sd.
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Fr: Geary
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did most
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vileby use your honr. Petr. by assaulting him holding his
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fist to my head, which if his turnkey had not prevented
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would inevitably have knocked me down; calling one Rogue
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& Scunderell, crying out that he would make me repent it
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before
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Please turn over
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