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To the Worpful Gent his Maties: Justices of
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the peace upon the Bench at Hicks's Hall
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The humble peticon of
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Charles Tomlinson
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of the Pish of
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St.
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Giles Creeplegate
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in the County of Middx
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Glover
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Humbly Sheweth
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That yor Peticonr & is a poor aged man about sixty years
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of age and by reason of age is become uncapable to get his
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own livelyhood, much less to maintain his charge, having Six
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Children to provide for, indeed as yet never have been charge
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able to the Pish, but fears he must in a shorttime for he cannot
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struggle with so great a Charge as he hath, and yet the Officers
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of the parrish would being him to help to maintain the poor rotr
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he is not in the least able to do, therefore your poor Peticonr
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humbly beggs yor Worpps to take his distressed Condition into
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your pious and prudent Considerations and be pleased to discharge
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him from such an insupportable burthen
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And in so doing yor poor
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Peticonr shall ever pray
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