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To The Right Worshippfull Justice Offly and the
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ress of the Justices now Setting as Hickse's Hall London
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May it Please yor. Worshipps wee whose names are here to Subscribes
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doe humbly certifie to yor. worshipps that one John Griffies (now a Prisons
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to bee tryed this Sessions before this worshippfull Bench for Stealing Iron
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from one Mr. Carter) is es wee doe verilg beleive a very honest man and
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not in the least Guilty of ye. Sd fact haveing Served his apprentice Shipp
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and Lived in our Parish & neighbourhood twenty Years or upwards
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and Lived & behaved himselfe amongst us very Soberly Civilly and
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honestly to the best of our knowledge haveing never heard of any
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misdemeanour from him upon any accounts whatsoever before this
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hee allsoe worked Journey worke Seaven or Eight years with one Mr. Borgan A
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Smith whose name is Underwritten & doth testifie hee behaved
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himselfe very honestly all the time while hee was with him And
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wee doe verily beleive hee discharged himselfe Very faithfully
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allso to ye. aforesaid Mr. Carter with whome he Lately worked
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Journey worke for Some time but When the poore Prisoner Griffies
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Demanded his Wages that was due to him (which is three pounds or
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thereabouts) his sd Master Mr. Carter Refused it him and because
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hee would not pay him (as wee humbly conceive) fell out with him
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and
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(as wee Suppose)
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Layd this (as wee suppose) unjust Felony to his charge And
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therefore it is May is Please yor. Worshipps that in the poore Prisoners
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behalfe wee become humble petitioners to this worshippfull
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board to take thee sd Case into Consideraon and if it may Phase
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yor. Worshipps that ye. Sd Mr. Carter may (if hee cannot prove the
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sd felony upon the Prisoner) not onely pay him yr. sr. Prisoner
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the Wages due to him as aforesd but allso make him Some
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Satisfaction for his Six weeks Imprisonment wherein hee hath
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Lost his time & worke to maintaine himselfe & his wife as allsoe for
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the Defamation of an honest though poore man who ought not
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as wee conceive with humble Submission. to Suffer wrongfully
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for being poore Thus much wee thought it our Duties in honestly &
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Good Conscience humbly to Certifie to yor. Worshipps Leaving
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the Issue to God And your Worshipps
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