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<p n="254">To the Honourable Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65485_n254-1">John Fielding</rs>
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Knight & the worshipfull<lb></lb>
Bench of Justices at <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65485_geo128">Guildhall</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65485_geo129">westminster</rs>
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<p n="255">May it Pleas Your Honr. Sir. John. This Humble Petition of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65485_n255-1">Willm. Baker</rs>
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is that Your Petitioner desires to recommend<lb></lb>
Himself as an object of your Mercy and humbly Craves You to<lb></lb>
take pity on his Distressed Situaton, Your Petitioner Sir haveing<lb></lb>
a wife and two Small Children that is Labouring at this time<lb></lb>
under a Severe fit of Sickness and in real want of the Principle<lb></lb>
Necessaries of Life and is Entirely destitute of any Means to<lb></lb>
Suply them therewith since his Confinement your petitioner<lb></lb>
Implores Your Compassion on the Sufferings of his Unhappy<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65485_occ81">Infants</rs>
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and baggs that the Cry of Innocency may reach your<lb></lb>
Ears and melt your heart with Petternal tenderness the<lb></lb>
Sentence of Corporal Punishment to which i was by the Law<lb></lb>
adjudged has been twice afflicted on me with Severity your<lb></lb>
Petitioner Sir John Humbly Implores that his punishment<lb></lb>
may be Accepted as some Small allonement for his Crime in<lb></lb>
Consideration of the distresses of his Unhappy family and<lb></lb>
that you will to leas to Reales him from Confinement that<lb></lb>
he may be Enabled by honest and Industrious means to<lb></lb>
Releive and Cherish his Wretched family and preserve them from<lb></lb>
Perishing for want and in return your humble petitioner<lb></lb>
will be Ever bound to pray for your honour and the<lb></lb>
Worshipfull bench of Justices to his lives land</p>
<p n="256"> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65485_n256-89">William Baker</rs>
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