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<p n="238"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Midd ss</note>
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To the Worpfull the Chairman and the rest of<lb></lb>
his Maties Justices of the Peace att their generall Sessions<lb></lb>
holden for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50142_geo133">Middx</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="239">The humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n239-1">Francis Crooke</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50142_occ96">wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n239-2">John Crooke</rs>
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</p>
<p n="240"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That yor Petr. was violently and in a most barbarous manner<lb></lb>
beaten assaulted & brinsed and her neck almost wrung round<lb></lb>
in order to Murther her by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n240-1">John Saunders</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n240-11">Elizabeth</rs>
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<lb></lb>
his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50142_occ97">wife </rs>
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att the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50142_geo134"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50142_geo135">St George in Southwarke</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
County of Surrey</rs>
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and<del>this</del>
yor Petr could not soone find<lb></lb>
them to have them apprhended <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n240-2">Elizabeth Saunders</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
wife who gave in bayle before Justice Kerby for her<lb></lb>
appearance att this Sessions she being found in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50142_geo136">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
And for as much as the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n240-26">Elizabeth Saunders</rs>
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cannot<lb></lb>
bee indicted<del>and</del>
or psernted in the County of <del>Surrey</del>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50142_geo137">Middlesex</rs>
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the fact being committed in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50142_geo138">Surrey</rs>
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, & it being<lb></lb>
very difficult to retake her</p>
<p n="241">Yor Petr most humbly prayes that when<lb></lb>
the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n241-99">Elizabeth Saunders</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50142_n241-99" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
appeares upon her<lb></lb>
recoginzance She may bee bound over in fresh<lb></lb>
recoginzance to appeare att the next quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions for ye County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50142_geo139">Surrey</rs>
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</p>
<p n="242">And Yor Petr shall ever pray Etc</p>
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