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To the Honoble. Justices Sitting att Hickes Hall
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The humble Petition of
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Henry Vitalis
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Most humbly Sheweth
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That hee was indited before this Court by the Company
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of Tallow Chandlors for following the same trade altho' he made
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his Aprentiship of the same trade in France as may appear by Certi
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cats ready to be produced, and has no Appentice nor Journey man
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So he cannot wrong much the Company. Besides having nothing
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to live upon to keep himself his Sister and his niece but this trade
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and besides being invited into this Country by King Charles the second's
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Proclamation, that of King Wm. and Queen Mary, the First of July 1681
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the other of April 1689 with great promises of Assistance and settlement
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he came over.
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Wherefore may it please your Honours to allow
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him the liberty to follow his said trade of
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Tallow
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Chandlor
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, without which, he his sister and niece must
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needs starve
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And yr. humble Petr shall as in duty bound pray Etc
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