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To the Rt. Worspl. his Maties
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The humble Peticon of the Churchwarden
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and Old Ceers of the Poore of the Hamlett of
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then an Inhabitant in the sd. Parish tooke to
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nurse two poore Orphans belonging to the sd. Parish,
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being much in Debt on purpose to defraud her Creditors
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went away by night out of the sd. Parish into another Parish London and with her tooke
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the sd. Two poore Orphans.
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Jane Smith
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refuses to produce the sd. Two Children or to Lett your
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Yor. Petr. therefore most humble
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