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To the Right Worspll: their Maties Justices of the Peace for the
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County of Midds.
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The humble Peticon of
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Gerard Selbey
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Wapping Whitchappell
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Sheweth
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That at Easter last your Peticoner was elected to Serve the office of
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Scavenger
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in the said Hamlet for the yeare Ensueing.
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That your Peticoner hath been a Lodyer in the dwelling house of one
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William Great
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in the said Hamlet about three yeares Past and never
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was a Housekeeper in the said Hamlet Neither hath there been at any
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time any parish dutys taxed on your Peticoner Soe that he humbly
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conceives himselfe not lyable to serve the said office.
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Your Peticoner therefore most humbly Prays yor. Worpps
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to be pleased to grant that he may be discharged from
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serving the said Office and that the Inhabitants of the said
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Hamlet may elect some other person to serve the same.
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And Yor. Peticoner Shall ever Pray etc.
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