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<p n="218">To the Right Worll. their Maties. Justices of ye<lb></lb>
Peace now Sitting, in & for their County of Middx,</p>
<p n="219">The humble Peticon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n219-1">John Read</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo28">Goswell Street</rs>
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in this County.<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50010_occ35">Bricklayer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n219-2">Elizabeth</rs>
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his wife</p>
<p n="220"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth.</note>
</p>
<p n="221">That whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n221-1">Peter Ayres</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50010_occ36">Marriner</rs>
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(& Inhabitant in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo29"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo30">Wapping</rs>
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in ye parish of St<lb></lb>
Mary White chappelling</rs>
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county aforsd) about August 1689 went to ye <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo31">Canaryes</rs>
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. & in<lb></lb>
his voyage homewards on or about the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50010_date7">9th. of May last</rs>
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direct sea. Levering behind him<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n221-2">Susan</rs>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50010_occ37">wife</rs>
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wth. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n221-3">peter</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n221-4">Susan</rs>
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his Children wth. Said Susan ye. Mother Dyed<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50010_date8">19th. of July</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50010_date8" type="date" value="16900719"></interp>
following but in ye time of her Subnesse (of wth She died) Sent for yor,<lb></lb>
Peticoner Elizabeth (bring her own Sister per Aunt to ye sd Peter & Susan ye Children)<lb></lb>
& Dereard her that She & her husband would take care of her poor Father lesse Children<lb></lb>
after her death. And further for that your poor peticoner (not wthstanding<lb></lb>
they have four small Children of their own & nothing to support them but which<lb></lb>
they gett by Day labour) have put their said Neeve forth to practice & gott their<lb></lb>
into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50010_geo32">Christ Hospitall</rs>
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at their own Charge, thereby freeing the said p<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
& from ye Same</p>
<p n="222">Now so it is & for that the charpt exceeding of Wapping Preicent (where<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Susan ye Mother Died) have not onely possessed themselves of what goods ye said Susan<lb></lb>
at her death. but likewise have received £9.9s.9d in moneye for the wages &<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50010_n222-1">Peter Ayres</rs>
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the Father, & do now utterly refuse to reimburse your poore<lb></lb>
peticonary or make then any reasonable sattisfaction for all the great expence<lb></lb>
charge & losse of tyme they have been at, & were necessarily put<obscured></obscured>
in & about ye<lb></lb>
setting & pleasing the said Children forth in manner at aforesd</p>
<p n="223">They therefore humbly beseech yor. Worpps Order. thereby to compell the Sd<lb></lb>
Churchwardens to make your Peticonable<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
sattisfacon (out of ye sd £9.9s.9d<lb></lb>
so reversed by them as aforesaid) for such their Expences houble as aforesaid<lb></lb>
to grant then someother releife in the prisley as to the honble Court<lb></lb>
shall Seame meet,</p>
<p n="224">And yor peticoner (as in duty bound) Esill<lb></lb>
Eber Pray<obscured></obscured>
.</p>
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