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<p n="52">To the Worpful Gent his Maties: Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace upon the Bench at Hicks's Hall</p>
<p n="53">The humble peticon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50148_n53-1">Charles Tomlinson</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50148_n53-1" type="given" value="CHARLES"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50148_n53-1" type="surname" value="TOMLINSON"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50148_n53-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
of the Pish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50148_geo22"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50148_geo23">St.<lb></lb>
Giles Creeplegate</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50148_geo23" type="placeName" value="St.Giles Creeplegate"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50148_geo23" type="type" value="parish"></interp>
in the County of Middx</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50148_geo22" type="placeName" value="St.Giles Creeplegate in the County of Middx"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50148_geo22" type="type" value="county"></interp>
. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50148_occ15">Glover</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50148_occ15" type="occupation" value="Glover"></interp>
.</p>
<p n="54"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That yor Peticonr & is a poor aged man about sixty years<lb></lb>
of age and by reason of age is become uncapable to get his<lb></lb>
own livelyhood, much less to maintain his charge, having Six<lb></lb>
Children to provide for, indeed as yet never have been charge<lb></lb>
able to the Pish, but fears he must in a shorttime for he cannot<lb></lb>
struggle with so great a Charge as he hath, and yet the Officers<lb></lb>
of the parrish would being him to help to maintain the poor rotr<lb></lb>
he is not in the least able to do, therefore your poor Peticonr<lb></lb>
humbly beggs yor Worpps to take his distressed Condition into<lb></lb>
your pious and prudent Considerations and be pleased to discharge<lb></lb>
him from such an insupportable burthen</p>
<p n="55">And in so doing yor poor<lb></lb>
Peticonr shall ever pray<obscured></obscured>
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