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<p n="59"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Recomended to vestry<lb></lb>
St Mlis</note>
<lb></lb>
To the Honoble the Justices assembled at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50023_geo28">Westmr.</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_geo28" type="placeName" value="Westmr."></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_geo28" type="type" value="urban_centre"></interp>
<lb></lb>
to hold the Quarter Sessions there.</p>
<p n="60">The humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50023_n60-1">Ellen Adams</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n60-1" type="given" value="ELLEN"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n60-1" type="surname" value="ADAMS"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n60-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50023_occ3">Widdow</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_occ3" type="occupation" value="Widdow"></interp>
</p>
<p n="61"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petr. is the sorrowfull widdow of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50023_n61-1">Richard Adams</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n61-1" type="surname" value="ADAMS"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n61-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50023_occ4">Esqr</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_occ4" type="occupation" value="Esqr"></interp>
formerly a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50023_occ5">Barrister</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_occ5" type="occupation" value="Barrister"></interp>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50023_geo29">Lincolns Inn</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_geo29" type="placeName" value="Lincolns Inn"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_geo29" type="type" value="site"></interp>
<lb></lb>
& well known to severall worthy persons<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
inhabitants<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50023_geo30"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50023_geo31">Cittyes of London </rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_geo31" type="type" value="urban_centre"></interp>
& Westmr</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_geo30" type="type" value="urban_centre"></interp>
. but now dead for seaven years past.<lb></lb>
That since the death of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50023_n61-56">Richard Adams </rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n61-56" type="given" value="Richard"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n61-56" type="surname" value="Adams"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n61-56" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
your petr. the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
poore children is fallen into greate want & misery through the<lb></lb>
failing of two persons who had in their hands all the<lb></lb>
subsistance & provision which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50023_n61-23">Richard Adams</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n61-23" type="given" value="Richard"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n61-23" type="surname" value="Adams"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_n61-23" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
left for<lb></lb>
the support of your petr & her Children.</p>
<p n="62">wherefore your petr. humbly prays your honers to<lb></lb>
consider her miserable Condition & to recomend her to the<lb></lb>
Overseers of the poore & Vestry of<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50023_geo32"> St Martins parrish</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50023_geo32" type="type" value="parish"></interp>
where<lb></lb>
she hath<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
for some time inhabited to receive such part<lb></lb>
of the publiq charity as to your honers & the masters of the<lb></lb>
parish shall seeme meet</p>
<p n="63">And your petr. will ever pray Etc.</p>
<p n="64">The Widdow<lb></lb>
Adams Petition</p>
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