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<p n="1">To the Worshipfull his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50375_occ1">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50375_geo1">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Assembled this Present General<lb></lb>
Sessions of the Peace Holden for the said County</p>
<p n="2">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50375_n2-1">Wm. Knowles</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50375_n2-1" type="surname" value="Knowles"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50375_n2-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50375_n2-2">Eliz</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50375_n2-2" type="surname" value="Knowles"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50375_n2-2" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
: his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50375_occ2">Wife</rs>
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<p n="3"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That your Worshipp's Poor Petrs. stand Indicted in<lb></lb>
this Court for an Assault upon One <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50375_n3-1">Hyams Solomon</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50375_n3-1" type="surname" value="Solomon"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50375_n3-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
a Jew, for which they<lb></lb>
have made Satisfaction and a General Release Executed to the prosecutor by<lb></lb>
Your Petrs. which Release they humbly apprehend is Deposited in this Honble<lb></lb>
Court to Produce</p>
<p n="4">That Your Indigent and Distreped Petrs. haven Family Four small<lb></lb>
Children unprovided for, and whose vole Dependance is upon Their Hand Labour<lb></lb>
which are reduced to a very low and mean Condition thro' the Expences<lb></lb>
attending the Prosecution, and Great Loss in Trade sustained, without the<lb></lb>
least hopes or seeming Possibility of retrieving themselves or Family,</p>
<p n="5">Your Petrs. Therefore most humbly begg That your<lb></lb>
Worshipps would be Pleased to Consider them as<lb></lb>
Objects of Compassion, that Mitigating the fine<lb></lb>
which is Humbly submitted to You, Heir<lb></lb>
Recoginzance may be Discharged, and they<lb></lb>
releived in the Premisses</p>
<p n="6">And Your Petrs. as Duty Bound will Ever pray Etc</p>
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