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<p n="451">To the Worshipfull his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ117">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo302">Middx</rs>
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in their General Quarter Session of the peace<lb></lb>
Assembled</p>
<p n="452">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n452-1">Mary</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ118">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n452-2">William<lb></lb>
Pentloe</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ119">Keeper</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo303">New prison</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo304">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<p n="453"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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<p n="454">That your petitioner was lawfully married to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n454-1">Willm. Pentloe</rs>
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in the month<lb></lb>
of February in the year 1752 accoding to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo305">England</rs>
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by one Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n454-2">William Wyatt</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ120">Minister</rs>
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in the Liberties of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo306">the fleet</rs>
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:</p>
<p n="455">That your petitioner Continued to live with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n455-1">William Pentloe</rs>
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as his Wife<lb></lb>
very unhappily till within about 12 Months since the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n455-2">William Pentloe</rs>
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heard<lb></lb>
your petitioner Out of Doors pennyless and Soon after came to an Agreement to<lb></lb>
allow your petitioner Six Shillings Pweek to Subsist upon & he Continued such<lb></lb>
Weekly payments till about Easter last when he absolutely refused to pay or allow<lb></lb>
your petitioner any more Money</p>
<p n="456">That your petitioner being Destitute and friendless and unable to provide for<lb></lb>
herself owing to a most Inhuman piece of Cruelty done to her by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n456-1">William Pentloe</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in breaking her Right Arm Short in Two with an Iron Poker Your petitioner<lb></lb>
applied to the said Pentloe for her said weekly allowance in stead of which without<lb></lb>
any other provocation whatsoever the said Pentloe threatned your petitioner to<lb></lb>
murder her or Cause her to be hanged or Transported</p>
<p n="457">That your petitioner was soon after taken up by Vertue a Warrant from<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n457-1">John Fielding</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50482_occ121">Esqr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo307">parish of St. James</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo308">Clerkenwell</rs>
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by the Name of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo309">Graves ats<lb></lb>
Deering</rs>
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for a Supposed Offence done by her as Charged in the Warrant of Committment<lb></lb>
hereunto annexed and was Instantly hurried before the said Mr Fielding who Sent her to<lb></lb>
the Gate house prison where She remained from the 30th day of April last past to the<lb></lb>
second day of July following when a Discharge was Sent by the said Magistrate at<lb></lb>
the Instance of her husband as a means to prevent your petitioner from laying her<lb></lb>
Complaint before the Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace for the City and liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo310">Westminster</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="458">That your petr. was well known to Mr Fielding to be the Wife of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50482_n458-1">William<lb></lb>
Pentloe</rs>
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and that if any Offence was Committed by her in Breach of the peace (which the<lb></lb>
solemnly denys) that the same was done in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo311">County of Middlesex</rs>
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& not in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50482_geo312">City and<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="459">That your Petitioner is now so reduced that She must Inevitably Perish<lb></lb>
without the Interposition of your Worships</p>
<p n="460">Your</p>
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