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To the Worshipfull His Majesty's
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The Humble petition of
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Sheweth that your Petr at this present Sessions
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was tryed upon an Indictment for a misdemeanor
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in threatning to Set Fire to a House and found
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Guilty and Sentened by your Worships to be Pub
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lickly Whiped for the Said Offence and is now in
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the Custody of the Keeper of
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which
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Sentence she Confesses to be moste Just That your
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Petr: has five small Children to provide for which by her
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own Industry She has keept from the parish Several
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Years and has no other way of getting her lively
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hood but by
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That if your petr undergoes the Sd Sentence it will
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intirely Ruin your pettn and her Said Chilldren that
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Humbly begs that your Worships will be pleas'd to
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take her Case into Consideratoin and Mitigate the Sd.
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Sentence as to Your worships Shall Sammet
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And Your Pettr Shall Ever pray
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We whose Names are Subscribed So humbley Certify
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to your worships tha the Petr is averey honest Industri
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ous woman who we have known some years and
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that She has five Small Chilldren which main
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