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<p n="78"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1746-7</note>
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To the Right Honourable <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15058_n78-1">William Benn</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ46">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ47">Lord<lb></lb>
Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo79">City of London</rs>
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and to the Rest of the<lb></lb>
Worshipfull the Aldermen his Brethren in their Generall<lb></lb>
Session of Gaol Delivery of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo80">Newgate</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo81">City of London</rs>
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Assembled.</p>
<p n="79">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15058_n79-1">Humphry Francis</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15058_occ48">Prisoner</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo82">Newgate</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="80"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That Your Petitioner on the Twenty Eighth day of July<lb></lb>
last was Committed a Prisoner to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo83">the Poultry</rs>
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Compter for stealing<lb></lb>
a Letter at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15058_geo84">the Post Office</rs>
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with Half a Guinea in it and in the<lb></lb>
same Compter Remained a Prisoner untill Fryday the fourth Day<lb></lb>
of this Instant September when he was Removed to the Gaol of<lb></lb>
Newgate Charged with the same Offence.</p>
<p n="81">Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays<lb></lb>
that at this Present Session of Gaol Delivery of<lb></lb>
Newgate he may be Tryed Bailed or Discharged</p>
<p n="82">And Your Petitioner shall Pray Etc.</p>
<p n="83"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15058_n83-1">Humphry Francis</rs>
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