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To the Honble. the Judges And Worshipfull Courts and Jury of the sessions
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of Oyer and Terminer, holden at the
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The Humble Petition of
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William Smith
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner stands Indicted before this Honourable
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Court for feloniously stealing a peice of Woolen stuff the property of
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Messrs, Andrew and Fisher of which Crime your Petitioners conseious to himself
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of having committed and not willing to give trouble to this Honble. Court Pleads
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guilty be lying wholey on your money,
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That your Petitioners who is but a Youn man has a
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Wife
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and her Children unprovided; for owns her has been quilty of Actions Base,
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and scandalous in their nature into the commission of which has been lod by
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loose company and from which if happily extricated might still become a
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usefull member of the Community, conscious to himself of having become
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Ameneable thro such Irregularities to the Lands of his Country Yet hopes
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as Justice is tempered with Mercy, that he may find Acmoney in this
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Honorable Courts
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Your Petitioners thro such reflections and conscious that
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this Court of Judicature in every of their Proceedings wish rather to add
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to the community a penitent Culprit who might be, usefull than make a
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Sacrified hope as he has been a Seamon and in that Line may still be usefull
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and his future actions atton for his past misconduct may again be added to that lord
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Pray this
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Honoroble, Court that in consideration of his youth the
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deep contriction of his Heart and sincere depentance the
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rigorous sentence of the Law may be, mitigated and that
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he may be permitted to serve his King and Country as a
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usefull member of the Community in the Navely or Army
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as to your Lenity shall seem meet
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And your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever Pray
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