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<p n="94">To the Worshipfull His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50415_occ54">Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peice</rs>
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for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50415_geo104">Middx</rs>
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in their<lb></lb>
General Sessions of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="95">The Humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50415_n95-1">Margaret<lb></lb>
Matthews</rs>
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<p n="96">Sheweth that your Petr at this present Sessions<lb></lb>
was tryed upon an Indictment for a misdemeanor<lb></lb>
in threatning to Set Fire to a House and found<lb></lb>
Guilty and Sentened by your Worships to be Pub<lb></lb>
lickly Whiped for the Said Offence and is now in<lb></lb>
the Custody of the Keeper of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50415_geo105">new Prison</rs>
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which<lb></lb>
Sentence she Confesses to be moste Just That your<lb></lb>
Petr: has five small Children to provide for which by her<lb></lb>
own Industry She has keept from the parish Several<lb></lb>
Years and has no other way of getting her lively<lb></lb>
hood but by <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50415_occ55">Serveing Newspapers</rs>
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<p n="97">That if your petr undergoes the Sd Sentence it will<lb></lb>
intirely Ruin your pettn and her Said Chilldren that<lb></lb>
Humbly begs that your Worships will be pleas'd to<lb></lb>
take her Case into Consideratoin and Mitigate the Sd.<lb></lb>
Sentence as to Your worships Shall Sammet</p>
<p n="98">And Your Pettr Shall Ever pray<lb></lb>
M:M</p>
<p n="99">We whose Names are Subscribed So humbley Certify<lb></lb>
to your worships tha the Petr is averey honest Industri<lb></lb>
ous woman who we have known some years and<lb></lb>
that She has five Small Chilldren which main<lb></lb>
taines by her one Labour and Indutry</p>
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