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<p n="1">To the Rt. Worsppll his Matys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50200_occ1">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50200_geo1">Middlx</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="2">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50200_n2-1">George<lb></lb>
Anderson</rs>
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</p>
<p n="3"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
</p>
<p n="4">That as of last Sessions your Peticoner was-<lb></lb>
Indicted by the Name of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50200_n4-1">Guy Anderson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50200_n4-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and<lb></lb>
convicted for <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50200_occ2">Keeping a Disorderly house</rs>
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For<lb></lb>
which Offence Your Petitioner was fined five<lb></lb>
pounds and Comitted to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50200_geo2">House of Correction</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50200_geo3">Clerkenwell</rs>
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to hard Labour for the space of<lb></lb>
Three Months</p>
<p n="5">That Your Peticoner hath Wife and Two small<lb></lb>
Children to Mainteine Who are Destitute<lb></lb>
of any friends or have they any Substance<lb></lb>
to support then but must Inevitably starve<lb></lb>
if your peticoner longer Imprisoned and hindred<lb></lb>
from working for his said Family</p>
<p n="6">Your Petitioner therefore humbly<lb></lb>
prays your Worshipps will be<lb></lb>
pleased to Consider the Calamity<lb></lb>
of his Family and to be pleased<lb></lb>
to discharge him from his said<lb></lb>
Imprisonment.</p>
<p n="7">And yor. petr. Shall Ever pray Etc.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50200_n7-1">George Anderson</rs>
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