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To the Rt. Worpll. his Matys Justices of the Peace for the County of Middx
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The humble Peticon of
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Martha Pelley
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Wapping Stepney
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Widow
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Most Humbly Sheweth
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That the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish have
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Asses'd Yor. Peticoner Eighteen pence P Month towards the Releife of the
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poor there for the Year ensuing.
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That Your Petr. rents but a house of Nine pounds & Ann in the sd Pish
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and has liv'd therein Thirty Years & never was before asses'd to the reliefe of the sd
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Poor So that she thinks herselfe very much aggreiv'd by the sd Assessmt.
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Yor Peti
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Therefore most humbly Prays Yor. Worspps to
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be pleased to order that she may be releiv'd in the sd prmisses
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And Yor. petr. shall ever pray
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