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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Rt: Worsppll: his Matys Justices of the Peace for ye County of
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Middx.
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The humble peticon of
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William Wigley
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Parish of St Leonard shoreditch
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in the said County
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Sheweth
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That as of last Sessions of your Peticoner Exhibited his Petition
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unto this Court Setting forth That he was a very poor man
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and had lost his Eye sight and had two small Children to
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mainteyne and could not longer Subsist without relief
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from the said Parish your Worshipps were pleased to
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referr his Case to Three of his Matys Justices of the Peace
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resideing in or near the said Parish Who upon hearing
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your Petitioner Ordered him a pencon of Twelve pence
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p Weeke But your peticoner by reason of his Family
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and Misfortunes cannot Subsist without a further
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Allowance.
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Yor Peticoner therefore humbly prays
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such an Augmemtacon of his said
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Pention As to this Court shall be
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thought meete.
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And Yor Petr Shall Ever pray Etc.
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