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That your Worshipp's Poor Petrs. stand Indicted in
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this Court for an Assault upon One
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a Jew, for which they
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have made Satisfaction and a General Release Executed to the prosecutor by
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Your Petrs. which Release they humbly apprehend is Deposited in this Honble
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Court to Produce
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That Your Indigent and Distreped Petrs. haven Family Four small
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Children unprovided for, and whose vole Dependance is upon Their Hand Labour
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which are reduced to a very low and mean Condition thro' the Expences
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attending the Prosecution, and Great Loss in Trade sustained, without the
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least hopes or seeming Possibility of retrieving themselves or Family,
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Your Petrs. Therefore most humbly begg That your
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Worshipps would be Pleased to Consider them as
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Objects of Compassion, that Mitigating the fine
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which is Humbly submitted to You, Heir
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Recoginzance may be Discharged, and they
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releived in the Premisses
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And Your Petrs. as Duty Bound will Ever pray Etc
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