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<p n="172">To the Worshipful Chairman & Bench of Justices<lb></lb>
Assembled in Sessions at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50467_geo117">Hicks's</rs>
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for the County of Middx</p>
<p n="173">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50467_n173-1">Francis Wigley</rs>
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<p n="174"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That Your Petitioner is at present Confined in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50467_geo118">new Prison</rs>
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, by<lb></lb>
Virtue of Mr. Justice Welch Comitments on Complaint of One Mr. Singfield, for<lb></lb>
receiving the Sum of Forty Shillings for Nightwork done by the Wido. Wise to whom<lb></lb>
your Petr. was a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50467_occ59">Servant</rs>
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& had the soll management of Her Affairs, & so continued<lb></lb>
some times after Her becoming Delirious, until such time the said Singfield starts up<lb></lb>
pretending he was a Relation & that he would Transact business without consulting<lb></lb>
whether Your Petr. would be Subservant to him, being the only person the Customize<lb></lb>
would pay</p>
<p n="175">Therefore Your Petr. most humbly Implores the Worship at<lb></lb>
Bench would please to take his Case into most Serious consideration, as it can be<lb></lb>
made Appear the Money's received were rightly applied, as to the Forty Shillings, after<lb></lb>
the Effects were disposed of, could not tell to whom, nor where to pay the same, having<lb></lb>
then Wages depending or Who had any Authority to Adjust matters, which am<obscured></obscured>
as<lb></lb>
have before Offered to pay the Money as Two Shillings For Wick on my own Note,<lb></lb>
hopeing as Sessions ends may Obtain my Liberty, which granted shall ever be<lb></lb>
gratefully acknowledged by Your Petr.</p>
<p n="176"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50467_n176-1">Francis Wigley</rs>
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