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To the Rt Worspp his Matys Justices of the Peace for the County of
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Hannah Cooper
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of the Parish of
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Sheweth
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That your Petitr: was allowed Six pence & Week as
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a Pention from the said Parish But for these Three
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months past the same has been wholly taken away
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That your Petitr is a very poor and sickly Women
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and is threatned to be turned out of Doors for
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Non payment of her Rent and being past her
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Labour Is not able & Subsist without her sd
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your Petitr. therefore Humbly
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Prays your Worspps will be pleased
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to Order yr she may be allowed her
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said Former Pention of Six Pence
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& Weeke and her Arreares paid
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her
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And yor Petitr Shall Ever pray etc
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