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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To ye Right Honoble ye Justices of
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ye Peace Now setting uppon ye Bench
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man Aged almost Seaventy and
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wife as Antient as himselfe and very
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yor Honnrs will take itt into Consider as on
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