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Recomended to vestry
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St Mlis
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To the Honoble the Justices assembled at
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to hold the Quarter Sessions there.
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The humble petition of
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Ellen Adams
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Sheweth
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That your Petr. is the sorrowfull widdow of
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Richard Adams
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formerly a
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Barrister
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of
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Lincolns Inn
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& well known to severall worthy persons
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inhabitants
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of the
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Cittyes of London
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& Westmr
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. but now dead for seaven years past.
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That since the death of the said
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Richard Adams
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your petr. the
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poore children is fallen into greate want & misery through the
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failing of two persons who had in their hands all the
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subsistance & provision which the said
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Richard Adams
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left for
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the support of your petr & her Children.
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wherefore your petr. humbly prays your honers to
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consider her miserable Condition & to recomend her to the
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Overseers of the poore & Vestry of
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St Martins parrish
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where
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she hath
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for some time inhabited to receive such part
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of the publiq charity as to your honers & the masters of the
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parish shall seeme meet
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And your petr. will ever pray Etc.
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The Widdow
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Adams Petition
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