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The Humble Petition of
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Sheweth
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Unto your Worships that your Petitioner being a Man
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in years and having had health and an aged Wife humbly
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Intreats your Worship to consider his distressed situation and
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be pleased to remit his Punishment
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That the Prosecutor
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is justly and truly
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indebted unto your Petitioner in the Sum of £137 and
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upwards which the Prosecutor has declared he will keep your
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Petitioner out of as long as he can
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That your Petitioner has not a Shilling to support
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himself and Aged Wife but his Dayly Labour who during his
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Imprisonment will be deprived of all manner of support
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he therefore humbly solicits your Worship to consider
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his Deplorable situation
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And your Petitioner in Duty bound will ever
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