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February 1800.
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prices of provisions would be lowered your Petitioner
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has not presumed to trouble your Worships before
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your Petitioner therefore humbly Submits his Case
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to the Consideration of your Worships to give such
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Relief as the extraordinary Circumstance of the
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times may induce your Worships to think
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reasonable and just your Petitioner does not
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presume to point out to your Worships any
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sum in Addition to his Allowance but he can
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with truth asert that his Expence in maintaining
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the Vagrants is at present a loss of at least one
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penny Per
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head beyond his Allowance as well
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as the great increase of Expence in keeping his
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Horses and necessary attendants upon the great
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number of Vagrants he has to Convey. - and
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Your Petitioner is in duty bound will ever Pray
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Henry Bothwell
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.
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N; B. your Petitioner has a great Number of
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Vagrants which are very ill and almost lost for
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want which he has to Convey.
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And the Court having Considered the
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same and Examined the said
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Henry Bothwell
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touching the matters therein Contained Resolved
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That the said
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Henry Bothwell
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be Allowed the sum
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of One hundred pounds to reimburse him
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the losses stated to have been sustained by him
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and that he also be Allowed to Charge the sum
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of Six pence Per Day for the subsistance of each
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Vagrant in his Custody instead of Three pence till
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further Orders.
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A Petition of
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Thomas Aris
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Governor of the House of Correction for this County
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being laid before this Court and Read praying the
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Court to Reimburse certain sums of Money which
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he had Expended in Endeavouring to Retake
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the Mutineers who Escaped out of his Custody
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