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