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<p n="255">To the worspll: His Maties: Justices of the Peace for<lb></lb>
the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50142_geo148">Middx</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50142_geo148" type="type" value="county"></interp>
assembled in Quarter Sessions</p>
<p n="256">The Humble Peticon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n256-1">Ralph Harwood</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n256-2">John Radcliff</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n256-3">Benjamin Coker</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50142_n256-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
: <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n256-4">John Woodfield</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n256-5">John Scott</rs>
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<del>and</del>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n256-6">Thomas Green</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n256-7">Daniel Harrison</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n256-8">Walter Burton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50142_occ107">Cow Keepers</rs>
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on behalf of themselves<lb></lb>
& many others Cowkeepers Inhabiting within the<lb></lb>
said County</p>
<p n="257"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That it hath pleased Almighty God to Afflict your Peticonr.<lb></lb>
and other Cowkeepers Inhabiting in the said County for the space<lb></lb>
of five months last past by a Contagious Distemper among their<lb></lb>
Cattle</p>
<p n="258">That severall thousand Cows & Calves have dyed of the said<lb></lb>
Distemper to the Greist Impoverishmt. of Yor: Peticonrs: & their<lb></lb>
Families and to th<obscured></obscured>
tter Ruin of severall others</p>
<p n="259">Yor: Peticonrs therefore humbly pray on the<lb></lb>
Behalf of themselves & the rest of the Sufferers<lb></lb>
That this Court will be pleased to Certifie their<lb></lb>
Condicon and Losses to the Right Honble.<lb></lb>
the Lord High Chancellour of Great Britain<lb></lb>
to the End that Yor: Peticonrs: & therest of the<lb></lb>
Sufferers may obtain His Maties: most gracious<lb></lb>
Letters patents for a Collection of the Charity of<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
ll His Maties well disposed Subjects in<lb></lb>
such Cities County's & places in Great<lb></lb>
Britain towards the Support & Releif of<lb></lb>
your Peticonrs: & other Sufferers as His<lb></lb>
Lordship in His great Wisdom shall see<lb></lb>
meet & convenient</p>
<p n="260">And Yor: Peticonrs: shall ever pray Etc:</p>
<p n="261"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n261-1">Walter Burton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n261-99">John Woodfeild</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n261-2">Benj Coker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n261-88">Daneill Harrison</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n261-55">Jno: Sutt</rs>
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: <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n261-47">Tho: Green</rs>
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