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To the Right Worfull his Maties Justices of the
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The humble Petition of
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James Robinson
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of the parish of
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St Giles in the fields
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aforesaid
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Hempdresser
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner served seven years as
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an Apprentice to the Trade of a
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and
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has ever Since followed the said Trade, and did
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for severall years serve the
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house of correction
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at Clerkenwell
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with materialls for the imploying
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of idle and disorderly persons sent thither to work
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And the Office or Place of Governor of the said house
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being now vacant by the death of Capt Boreman
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the late Governor
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Yor Petr
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therefore humbly prays
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yor Worpps to take the premisses into yor
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consideration, and to admitt him into
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the said Office or place he being as
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he humbly conceives a person very
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fitly quallified for the same
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And yor Petr. shall ever pray Etc
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