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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Worshipfull ye Bench
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of Justices at
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The Humble Petition of
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Richard Wilson
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Sheweth.
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That Your Petitr. humbly makes
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bold to acquaint Your Worships that he
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has languished under the Goal Distemper
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for this Month past insomuch. That Your
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petitrs. poor wife and Family are reduced
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to want & Necessity by making away what
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they had to sustein Your Petitr. and are
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now in such Necessity that they must needs
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be trouble some to a parish if Your Petitr:
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is much longer confin'd
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That as Your Petitr. is now to receive
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his Sentence for the past by him
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comitted
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He humbly prays That this
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Honble Court (in consideration of
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his wife & two Small Children)
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will be so mereifull and good as
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to comiserate his Condition whereby
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he may be enabled to Support his
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distressed Family in his lawfull
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calling.
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And Yor. petitr. shall ever pray Etc.
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