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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Right Worshippfull the Chairman
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and the rest of the worthy Justices on the
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Bench at Hickss Hall
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The Humble: Pettition of
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Mary Heacock
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Now a prisonr. in the Gate House
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Most Humbly Sheweth
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That your poor petionr: has Six Small and
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helpless Children Now in & most Miserable
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and Deplorable Condition, your poor petionr:
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Haveing Sold and pawnd all her Houshould
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Furniture and alsoe her wearing a parell In order
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for their Suport and haveing of Nothings left, for thier
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Further Reliefe must of Course Inevitably
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Perish, if not prevented by your worships
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Clemency and goodness,
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May it therefore Pleas your worships
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of your abundant Charity and goodness, to take
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the Malloncholy Case of Your poor distressd
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Petionr Into your Serious Consideration, and
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Order that your poor petionr. may be brought
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to a Speedy tryall, or use such means for your
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petionrs; Inlargmt, as in your worships great
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wisdom Shall Seem Most Expedient and your
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petionr wth her poor Familey as In Duty Bound Will
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