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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Worshipfull the Justices of the peace
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The Humble Petition of the overseers of the poore
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in the Liberty above Barrs
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Humbly Sheweth
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That where as one Widdow Hovey y
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House holder in the said Liberty Hath putt her Sonn
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Hovey in prison in the Marshallsea in South wark and
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a wife and two Children in the said Liberty is thereby became
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Chargeable to the said Liberty
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We therefore humbly in treat your Worshipps
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to Cause the said Widdow Hovey to be brought
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before you That by your order she may be obliged
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to provid for her said Grand children And that
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peticonr be discharged from any further
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maintenance of them
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And your peticonr shall ever Pray &
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