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To the Right Worship full his Majesties
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Justices of the peace
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at their General Quarter Sessions
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assembled
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The Humble Petition of
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Robert Worsley
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Thomas Walker
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Commited to
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Bridewell
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Clerkenwell
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by order of this Whorship full Bench
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for a newsance in Pulling Soil into the Sewers
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Humbly Sheweth
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That ye petitioners did plead Guilty to the Indictment preferred
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against us in Submission to the Commissioners of Servers and to prevent
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their being at any farther Cost to prove our Guilt in hopes and
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according to advice to us Given that thereby this Whorshipfull Bench
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would be the more favourable to us and we with Due Submission Still
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hope and doubt not but in Consideration of our Families yor Whorships
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will Consider us in our misfortunes (if not us our Families which are
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numerous we haveing Each of us a wife and Family of Children Walker
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a wife and five Small Children and Worsley a wife and Two Small
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Children all which are unable to help themselves nor have they any
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thing to Support themselves with but the Labour of ye petitoners your
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Petitioners are truely Sensible of their offence and humbly ask pardon of
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this Whoship full Bench and promise never more to offend in the like Case
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Therefore yr petitioners humbly prays that yr whorships would be pleased
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to take the Case of yr petitioners and their Families into ye wife Considerations
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and to alter the Imprisonment of yr petitioners to Such a moderate fine as
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to yr whorships Shall Seem meet for if yr petitioners are Continued in prison
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our Families will be Reduced to Extream want and Necessity and in So
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Doing yr petitioners and their Families as in Duty Bound Shall Ever
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pray Etc
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The mark of T W
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Thos Walker
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Robt Worsley
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Wee whose names are hereunder written house keepers and Inhabitants
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of the
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Shereditch and
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Well knowing the poverty and Necessity of the petitioners and their
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Families and that unless they are Releived by this Honourable
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Bench their families must Come to Extream want and necessity
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Therefore in Consideration of their wifes and Children do freely
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and Voluntarily offer our Selves to become Surities for the good
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behaviour of the petitioners above mentioned for and During so
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Long time as to yr Whorship Shall Seem meet
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Wm. Harwood
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The mark of
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Joseph Wortley
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Willm Hudson
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