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<p n="2">To the Right Honourable Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n2-1">John Thompson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Knight Lord Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15049_geo1">City of London</rs>
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and to<lb></lb>
the Worshipfull the Rest of his Majestyes Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the Said City and the Libertyes<lb></lb>
thereof in their General Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
Assembled.</p>
<p n="3">The Humble Petition of the Church<lb></lb>
Wardens and Oversees of the Poor of<lb></lb>
the Parish of Deale in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15049_geo2">County of Kent</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="4"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioners have at the Charge of the Said Parish for<lb></lb>
these three Months Last past Provided for and maintained <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n4-9">Sarah<lb></lb>
Emptage</rs>
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(the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15049_occ1">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n4-1">Humphry Emptage</rs>
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) and her five Children (to Witt)<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n4-2">John Emptage</rs>
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Aged Eleven Years <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n4-3">Mary Emptage</rs>
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Aged Eight Years<lb></lb>
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Aged five Years <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n4-5">Thomas Emptage</rs>
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Aged Two Years<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n4-6">Sarah Emptage</rs>
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Aged three Months the Lawfull Issue of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n4-7">Humphry Emptage</rs>
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and the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n4-8">Sarah</rs>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15049_occ2">wife</rs>
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who By reason of the<lb></lb>
Poverty of the Said Sarah the mother and the Absence of her Said<lb></lb>
Husband is therefore unable to work or Provide for her Self and Children</p>
<p n="5">That Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n5-1">John Emptage</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15049_geo3">Watling Street</rs>
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In the parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15049_geo4">Saint Mary Aldermary</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15049_geo5">London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15049_occ3">Joyner</rs>
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and Cabinet maker father of<lb></lb>
the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n5-2">Humphry Emptage</rs>
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being a person of Sufficient Ability to<lb></lb>
Releive and Maintain at his own Cost and Charges his Said five Grand<lb></lb>
Children.</p>
<p n="6"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n6-1">Gabriel Drayson</rs>
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Agent for the petrs.</note>
<lb></lb>
Your Petitioners therefore Humbly Pray<lb></lb>
your Lordship and Worships that You will be<lb></lb>
pleased to Assess the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n6-2">John Emptage</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15049_n6-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
the<lb></lb>
Grandfather in Such Manner and According to<lb></lb>
Such Rate as to Your Lordship and Worships<lb></lb>
Shall Seem meet for the Releif and maintainance<lb></lb>
of his Said Grant Children or that You will be<lb></lb>
pleased to Order him to Attend this Court at a<lb></lb>
Certain Day to be Appointed to Shew Cause Why He<lb></lb>
Should not be Assessed in Ease of Your Petitioners.</p>
<p n="7">And Your Petitionerss Shall Pray Etc.</p>
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