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Most Humbly Sheweth
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was On the Eighteenth of October
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In the ninth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign
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Lord George the Second Convicted before Your
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Worships and by your Orders to be Imprisoned
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In His Majesties Goal Of
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for the Space of
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one Year to find Sureties for two Years & paying
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That Since the Impoisonment
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of your Worships poor petitioners We have our
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Afflicted with Continual Sickness and to Increase
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Your Worships pettitioners Great Sorrow having
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No friends to Suply our Great Wants Your poor and
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Distres'd Pettitioners with their Children have
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Labound Under the Most Deplorable Wants and
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Lanquishing Poverticy Your petitioners Wife being
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Now Sick Of a Raging fevour which She has had
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Severel Day is and past hopes of a Recoverie
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Therefore Your most
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Disstres'd and Humble petitioner. Doth Crave
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Your Worships Kind Compasion On the Inexprosal
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Woes and Calamities of Your perishing Petitioners
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Clementey and Benignetcy Order Your parishing
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and Most Distress'd Petitioner's Clearence from
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their Imprisonment they being Uncapable by
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And Your Worships poor petitioner
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as In Duty bound Shall Ever Pray
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