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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Worshipful Bench of Justices, for ye county of
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The humble petition of
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John Anderson
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Sheweth;
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That yr: petitioner is a very poor man, and
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have been confind in
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Clarkenwell
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Bridwell
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, upwards of five Months, and now lies for
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fees, and in a miserable starving condition , having
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no friends in ye world to come near yr Petitioner
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Your Petitioner most humbly Prays
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your Worships to be so pleasd out of ye:
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Innate Goodness, to Order yr
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-petitioner, to be set at liberty,
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without fee, or Else he must
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inevitably perish, except releif
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And yr: Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever Pray &
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