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<p n="545">To the Worshipful his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15090_occ276">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15090_geo606">City of London</rs>
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in their General Quarter Session of the Peace<lb></lb>
for the said City assembled.</p>
<p n="546">The humble Petition and Appeal of Sophia<lb></lb>
a Native of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15090_geo607">East Indies</rs>
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but now resident<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15090_geo608">Parish of St. Luke</rs>
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Chelsea in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15090_geo609">Middx</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="547"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That about two years and an half since your Petr.<lb></lb>
was brought from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15090_geo610">East Indies</rs>
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by Capt. Dean of<lb></lb>
the East India Trade, and resided with him until<lb></lb>
he went out again to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15090_geo611">East Indies</rs>
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: he leaving your<lb></lb>
Petr. behind him with Mrs. Dean his Wife.</p>
<p n="548">That some time after the sd. Captains Departure<lb></lb>
the sd. Mrs. Dean placed your Petr. as a Boarder<lb></lb>
with a Woman in Monkwell Street London, where<lb></lb>
your Petr. resided about six Weeks and until the<lb></lb>
29th day of June last.</p>
<p n="549">That upon the sd. 29th day of June last your Petr.<lb></lb>
was taken abroad by the sd. woman with whom she was<lb></lb>
so boarded as aforesaid, and in a very few Minutes after<lb></lb>
they quitted their Habitation, your Petr. was forcibly seized<lb></lb>
by a man in the Street & taken to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15090_geo612">the Mansion House</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the sd. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15090_geo613">City of London</rs>
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, where your Petr. was charged before<lb></lb>
the Right Honble the Lord Mayor of the sd. City with<lb></lb>
being a Vagabond, wandering abroad and lodging<lb></lb>
in</p>
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