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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To ye Worshipful ye Justices of ye peace of ye County
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of Middlesex
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The humble Petition of
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sheweth that
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your Petitioner being an Inhabitant in
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in ye
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Lordship part of Ye Parish of St. Giles Creplegate
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; and
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is a poor laboring in an having four Children upon
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hands; for wch. reason ye. Petitioner entreats ye Worships
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ye he may be excused from paying to ye Poors - rate
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& yr Petitioner shal ever pray
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