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