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Continued Thursday 12 December 1776
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Relations and Friends line at too great a distance for your
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Petitioners to enjoy their instructive conversation without
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being disobedient to your Orders.2dThat to deprive
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them to that beneficial happiness which the generally of
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your Petitioners eagerly desire and hope to be indulged in
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would be leave them entirely to themselves and exposed to
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the ungovernable dictates of unbridled Resolutions.3d That
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your Petitioners Submit to your Worships whether the exercise they
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can have within the Walls of the Hospital can be equal to that
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received from a Walk in the Country or so conducive to Health
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4thThat your Petitioners beg leave to observe that they
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do not feel that Alacrity to their respective Labour they formerly
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did feel owing to a continual confinement5thThat
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Your Petitoners submit to your Worships whether the.
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Punishing whatever Individuals may be found offending
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against your Orders will not be sufficient, or whether the
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Punishing the whole for a few may not discourage them from
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struggling to do well. That your Petitioners sincerely
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crave Pardon for all their past Offences as likewise for any
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this then fervent Petition or prayer may give Protesting they
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wish to enjoy the smiles of their governors and Benefactors and
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not to Offend Therefore relying upon the sincerity of their
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Intentions and Promising to have a very Strict guard upon
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their behaviour for the future they are prompted to hope this
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general Punishment will prove to be but a tempory one to
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bring them to a just since of their duly and should they be so
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happy as to gain belief with your Worships and by that Obtain
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their former indulgence of Freedom. It is Ordered that
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the said Petition be rejected.
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Upon Reading a Report from the House Committee
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bearing date the 29th. day of November last under the Hands
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of
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Philip Grafton
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. in the words and figures following Vizt. In
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Pursuance of an Order of Court of the 21st. November
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Instant whereby it was referred to this Committee to consider the
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Petition of
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Artsmasters
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