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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To ye Rt Worshippfull their Maties Bench of
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Justices for ye County of Middlesex. The Humble
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peticion of
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Robert Chambers
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one of their
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Maties Superanuated
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Sea Officers
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Pensioner
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Sheweth
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That yor Poore Peticioner hath Served in ye Quallity
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of Master in yr. Royall Navy of England for the
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Space of Forty yeares, & now being grown verry
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aged & un Fitt for further Sea Service hath a Pention
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from their Maties to Support him Self & Familie
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dureing ye rest of his life, which Pention is all the
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Estate he hath in ye Works to Subsist on. yet ser it is
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that the Parrish Officers impose on him Parrish dutys.
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Therfore hee Humbly Prays this Honble Court
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to Consider his aged and indigent condition,
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& to grant on Order that he may be Excused
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from Watching, & Paying of Parrish Taxes, &
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be taken off their bookes.
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And as bound he shall Pray
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