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Mrs. Higgins ye:
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Matron £30:
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Also Upon the humble Peticonr of
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Lybill a Higgons
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showing That She has been matron of his sd
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4 years at Michal last and that at her Execucon the said Office She paid
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neare Fourty pounds for beds & other Furniture for his accomodation of the
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prisonr. (The perquisetts of her Office consisting theifly in Furnishing bed
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Such prisonr. as an able to pay a small usuall price for the Same) and that
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for above two yeares last a greater number of women prisonr. have been
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comitted to the sd. Hospll. then heretofore but they have generally been of the
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very poorest Sort a great money beggars and a more then ordinary number
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from the Sessions who have generally law in the Straw soe that ye. petr.
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had made little or clothing of her Lodgings besides wth. the Prison has been
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thereby almost constantly infected wth. a Dangerous contagious Distemper
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wch. has occasioned a great deale of Illness in the Pers. Family wth has been
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great charge to her & has reduced her to a very low condiond and therefore
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praying Such Gratuity in respect thereof as to this Court should Seem meet
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This Court haveing in a truely weighed & consided. the Prmisses. & the
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Extraordinaryness of ye petr. case doe think fitt & for Ordr. That Mr. Trear
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doe Give & pay unto her Forty pounds in respect of his four Yeares last
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past to be Allowed Mr. Trear in his next account
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Richd. Barrett
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Bethm
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. att 2s
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Also Upon the humble petition of
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Richd. Barrett
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for Sound mitigacon
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of the weekly paymt. of Five Shillings for the Keeping his Son
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Nathll.
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Barrett
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. in Bethlem Hospll. whose he has been maintained by the Petr.
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above 6 Months and Lot having tenn children to provide and
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nothing to assist him towards the said charge save a Lease hold Estate of
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£6. a Yeare for 2 lives and wt. he earnes by his owne Labor & therefore
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is altogether unable any longer to beare the Sd. weekly paymt. of Five
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Shillings This Court receiving a Satisfactory accot. of the Truth of the
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mattr. of the Sd. peticond Doe Order That Security being given for the
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paymt. of the Two Shillings a week for the Keeping the Sd.
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Nathl. Barrott
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on
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the Sd. Hospll. for the future That then the Proud for the paymt. of Five
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Shillings a week be delivered up to be cancelled
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Mr. Baggnall
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noiated Governr
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And att this Court Mr.
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Gibbon Bagnall
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was nominated to
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. of these Hosplls. by Capt. Phillips.
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