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most humbly
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Sheweth that yor Petitionr is Reduced to the Greatest
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poverty and Want through her great ages
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and Indespotition being allmost four Score
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years of age and almost quite blinds and
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her husband being aged & not the Least
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work to Suply themselves wth all and
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the parish allowes them but 6d P week wh
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will not pay for Smale bare Wherefore
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yor petitioners most humbly Prays yor honrs
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take ther misserable case into yor Judicing
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Consideration and to afford her yor releife
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ordering the Churchwarden of
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to angmt ther pention and yor
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petitioners as In Duty bound Shall Ever pray
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& yor petitionr having live in they parish above 40 years
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Anne Loaker
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And paid all maner of taxes till this Last
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year wch. having all their seized by their
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LandLord was the occasion of their poverty
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