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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Sheweth That hee being very poore and Indige
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desired Feleife, which hee humbly prays Yor Lords
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would grant free haveing nothing of A Brade
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whereby to gett his lively hood but Humbly desire
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that yor: Worshippd would take itt into sevour Considera
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con and to gett him Apluee to Gurne dithers
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Throuster or dyamond Cutters mill Which hee is
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very Capable of doeing and very willing to Doe
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Heeh as here brought A
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parish to show to yor Worshippd that hee had and
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reced he Alms of the said parish but now being
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past his Cabr. they thought fitt to putt him to
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but they found he was Incapable of working and
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therefore turned him out of the said parish; Therefore
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hed desires that the Churchwardens but in particular
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yor Crawley who has been the whole occason of this
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poor petitioners being turned out of the said
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And yor his the Petitionr
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Shall ever pray
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