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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Right Worps the
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the County of Midds.
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Sheweth
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The humble Peticon of
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James Feild
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That your Peticoner hath lived in the Said parish and County the sd
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Fourscoore yeares and upwards and the Churchwardens and Overseers
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of the poore there refuseth to allow your Peticoner any thing towards
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his releife and mainley name And he being very poore and aged Fourscoore
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yeares & upwards and altogether past his labour is libly to perish unless
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comisserated and releived by your Worpps Charity.
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Your Peticoner therefore most humbly prays
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your Worpps to be pleased to Order that the
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Churchwardens and Overseers of the poore of the
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Said parish may allow your Peticoner such
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pencon towards his releife and mainley name as
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unto your Worpps shall Seem meet
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And your Peticoner Shall ever Pray Etc.
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