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<p n="786"> <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20205_date49">18th: December 1724</rs>
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<p n="787"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n787-1">BoulterJohn</rs>
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his Petition for<lb></lb>
Charity ref to Comee</note>
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Upon Reading the humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n787-2">John Boulter</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ763">Citizen</rs>
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&<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ764">Weaver</rs>
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Settingforth That he and his Wife have Lived in this Hospital and<lb></lb>
Precinct upwards of 43 Years the greatest part of which time he was<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ765">Housekeeper</rs>
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and Maintained a great Family as an <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ766">Artsmaster</rs>
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in this Hospital<lb></lb>
and made Several free of this City but by reason of the great decay and uncertainly<lb></lb>
of Trade he Suffered many great Losses which have reduced him to a mean Condition<lb></lb>
and that he is above 60 years of age very dim and quite <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ767">Disabled</rs>
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from following<lb></lb>
his Employment and very Uncapable of Supporting himself and his wife who is<lb></lb>
very much Afflicted with pains and Weakness in her Limbs for want of Convenient<lb></lb>
fort & Raiment to Support NatureAnd that he and his wife have had<lb></lb>
five pence a day to maintain themselves and are now very week and in a Pending<lb></lb>
Condition and conant Subsist without further releifAnd praying that the<lb></lb>
Court would he pleased to Commistrate his Condition and Consider on some<lb></lb>
Expedient for his ReliefIt is Order'd that the Consideration of<lb></lb>
the said Petition be referred to the Comittee of this House to do therein as<lb></lb>
they think Proper</p>
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