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July 1781

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To the Worshipful William Mainwaring< no role >
Esquire and to the rest of the Justices now Assemble
at Hicks Hall

The humble Petition of
Elizabeth Browne< no role >

Sheweth


That your Petitioner was in the fourteenth day
of the instant July Unfortunately Convicted for
Feloniously [..] and Caring away a Bonet
and other things which your petitioner is intirely in [..] at off being
Unlawfully Convicted by the Oath of a Wicked
Person

That your Petitioner is a person not [..]
gets her going by dealing in Old Cloaths

That sometime agoe your Pet took a
Bonett out of pawn which she bought of a
person she put casually in the Street.

That your Petitioner went after [..] to
the sign of the Angel in Stepney Green about some
Business and being there a Woman who say he is
the prison petitioner to be robbed charge your Petr.
witts atending Bennett and seized the Bench she
has had on a alledging the some tobe her property and
took your Petr before a Justice and by false Evidence
was Committed to prison

That your Petr is by the Conviction orderd
to be imprisoned for two Months That your Petr.
is a Widow and is Agt quiet destitute with Coursining
Children and in great distress and having other
support than by your Petitioner's acquirement




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