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