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<p n="24">To The Honoble. Bench of Justices now Sitting<lb></lb>
att <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50201_geo11">Hicks Hall</rs>
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<p n="25"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
The Humble Peticon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50201_n25-1">Henry Gray</rs>
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<p n="26">That your Petitioner Between Six and Seven years Since<del>yours</del>
<lb></lb>
<del>Petitioner</del>
Inter marryed with <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50201_n26-1">Elizabeth</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50201_n26-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50201_occ3">Daughter</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50201_n26-2">William Page</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50201_n26-2" type="surname" value="Page"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50201_n26-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
By<lb></lb>
whom he has now Four Children Living</p>
<p n="27">That<del>about half a year at her Marriage</del>
Yor. Petrs. wife and her Prdecessors<lb></lb>
<del>having</del>
Rented a<obscured></obscured>
Farme now Belonging to his Grace the Duke of<lb></lb>
Chandois Formrly Belonging to Mr: Bonfoy<del>att the time of yor. Petrs</del>
<lb></lb>
<del>Intermarriage</del>
and about half a year after Yors. Petrs. Sd Intermarriage<lb></lb>
Some Differences ariseing Yor. Petrs. Sd. wife and her Father would<lb></lb>
had Yor. Petr. give a Pound and Judgemt. For Secureing a Debt due From<lb></lb>
the Sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50201_n27-2">Wm. Page</rs>
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yor. Petrs. Fath of in Law to one Attkins and by that Means to Through Yor.<lb></lb>
Petr. into Newgate But Yor. Petr. not Consenting to his Father in<lb></lb>
Law and his wifes Propose all they Endeavoured to Force yor. Petr.<lb></lb>
out of the Country</p>
<p n="28">That yor. Petr. to Prevent any Disputes or Animositys Permitted<lb></lb>
his Sd. wife and her Sd. Father to Receive take and Pay and to Act<lb></lb>
and Doe as they thought<obscured></obscured>
Every thing in about and Concerning the Sd. Farme<lb></lb>
and never Intermedled or Concerned himself in Demanding any And<lb></lb>
for what was Acted or Done But For Peace take all together to his Sd. wifes Managem<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="29">That Sevrall Contrivances were Sett on Foot Purely to Force Your<lb></lb>
Petitioner to Leave or guilt his Country But Such Projects<lb></lb>
and Contrivances not takeing Effect And Yor. Petr. being It Poor<lb></lb>
Illeterate and Easy man Yor. Petr. Said wife by the Instigation<lb></lb>
of Some Vexatious and Troable Some People was Prevailed<lb></lb>
upon to Swear the Peace agt. Your Petr. without any Just<lb></lb>
Cause and is now and hath been above a Month Last Past<lb></lb>
Confined in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50201_geo12">New Prison</rs>
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without any or the Least Subsistance<lb></lb>
and By Such Practices and Contrivances Your Petr. is not only Liked<lb></lb>
to be utterly rumed But Starved to Death</p>
<p n="30">Yor. Petr therefore humbly Craves Your<lb></lb>
Worshipps Tender Consideration of his Deplora<lb></lb>
:ble Circumstances and that yor. Worshipps<lb></lb>
will be Pleased to make Such Order herein<lb></lb>
For Yor. Petrs Reliefe as to Yor Worshipp's<lb></lb>
Shall Seem meet and Agreeable with Justice</p>
<p n="31">And Yor. Petr. Shall Ever prey<obscured></obscured>
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