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To the Honourable Justice Medlicoat
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The humble petition of
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George Millson
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Sheweth
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Unto your Worship that your Petitioner being a
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victular
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of
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St James's, who has lived, in good
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all
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till by the disapointment of this
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world, have been thrown into the gate-house Westminster
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, for debt, where your Petitioner
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has suffered great hardships occasioned all together by the cruelty & most barbarous usuage
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of Captain
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Wm Taylor
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the
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, who has not only treated your pettitioner after
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that manner, but all the rest of his Fellow creatures, also, by being confined in anatious,
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slinking place, that for want of air & other conveniences are just ready to perish,
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Particularly, such as are not able to purchase the liberty of the Yard, in spending mony
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at an extravagant rate, must infallably give up the Ghost, without any manner of
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Redemption; upon which your petitioner taking compassion of one amongst the rest,
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to save his life, had him in the Yard, & expended a shilling (which when done) was
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immediately countermanded back, into out former kennells upon which Your petitioner
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breaking one of their muggs which m
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he measure
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above a pint & a half for
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a groat, that Your petitioner was assaulted in a very inhumane way by the Said
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keeper & has put him into the condemned hole where he now lyes in a most deplorable
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condition that his life is dispaired of.
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May your Worship therefore be most
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graciously pleased, in tender compassion of
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Yos: petrs: miserable state, to order the injury &
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injustice, to be examined into, not only to
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him self but also in behalf of all the rest of
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the poor souls in Genl: which groan under
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the same misfortunes, by the insulting
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tyranny of the aforesaid keeper & Your
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petitioner shall ever pray Etc
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