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<p n="46">To the honorble. & Worspfull the Bench of<lb></lb>
Justices sitting at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50008_geo31">Hicks-hall</rs>
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<p n="47">The humble peticon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50008_n47-1">Samll. Bullock</rs>
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<p n="48">That ye. petr. stands comed. to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50008_geo32">New prison</rs>
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by this honorble<lb></lb>
Cort. being fined 20 marks upon pleading guilty to an Indictmt.<lb></lb>
for compounding a felony</p>
<p n="49">That ye. Petr. being rob'd of goods to ye. value of about £12<lb></lb>
& being a poor man & ignorant of the law in this case did<lb></lb>
think it better to take some what towards his less than lose</p>
<p n="50">That ye. petr. is in a very Sorrowfull condition in ye. prison<lb></lb>
having no mony to help himself & has endured the extreme necessity<lb></lb>
of lying on the hard boards & the like for above a month he<lb></lb>
being comted. last Sessions</p>
<p n="51">Ye. petr. therefore humbly prays that his<obscured></obscured>
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Cort. to pity his hard circumstance &<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
or mitigate his fine as to ye. worships shall<lb></lb>
seem most meet</p>
<p n="52">And yr. petr. shall as in duty bound sever pray Etc</p>
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