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<p n="46">To the Worshipfull ye Bench<lb></lb>
of Justices at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50289_geo30">Hicks Hall</rs>
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<p n="47">The Humble Petition of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50289_n47-1">Richard Wilson</rs>
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<p n="48"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth.</note>
<lb></lb>
That Your Petitr. humbly makes<lb></lb>
bold to acquaint Your Worships that he<lb></lb>
has languished under the Goal Distemper<lb></lb>
for this Month past insomuch. That Your<lb></lb>
petitrs. poor wife and Family are reduced<lb></lb>
to want & Necessity by making away what<lb></lb>
they had to sustein Your Petitr. and are<lb></lb>
now in such Necessity that they must needs<lb></lb>
be trouble some to a parish if Your Petitr:<lb></lb>
is much longer confin'd</p>
<p n="49">That as Your Petitr. is now to receive<lb></lb>
his Sentence for the past by him<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
comitted</p>
<p n="50">He humbly prays That this<lb></lb>
Honble Court (in consideration of<lb></lb>
his wife & two Small Children)<lb></lb>
will be so mereifull and good as<lb></lb>
to comiserate his Condition whereby<lb></lb>
he may be enabled to Support his<lb></lb>
distressed Family in his lawfull<lb></lb>
calling.</p>
<p n="51">And Yor. petitr. shall ever pray Etc.</p>
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