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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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I also complain of opression in paying to the poor
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at all by reson I have Spent my Youthfull days in
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the Service of the Government wherein the warse
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I lost parte of my Left hand with the
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hearing of my right Ear and received innumerable
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wounds and Suffered two years and a quarters
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imprisonment which hardships inteebly me now
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that I cannot go one step but in paine I also Lost
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fifty Pounds of areas which never will be payd me
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which if I had had would have set me up in some
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busynes whereas for the want of it I have suffered
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to Extremitie Ever since I have also a
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and
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three Children to bring up and do for in another
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countery because I would not Expose my miserable
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condition hear where I had hopes of raising my
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fortune and my families by my busines which I
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was in a faire may to do till this parish oficers
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disgraced me dy destraining my goods Every way
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unjustly, and now I am in no Likely had of geting
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a Living for myself tho my children fatherly
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for me starve for want of presant bread as well
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as up bringing it is an untolerable hardship
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to have my poor brocken Endevours Extorted from
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me and my family and given to those with whom
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I have no concern who never had the ocation
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to be poor as I have had naither did the house
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I live in pay any poor rate before me this many
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Years although posessed by Such as keept both
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Servants and prentices whereas I have naither
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nor any ability to keep any or busynes for them to
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do it this all be not hardship I refer it to your
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Serious concidderations
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