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To the Worshipfull
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in the Said County Assembled
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The humble Petition of
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James
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Bray
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brook.
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner was at the Last Quarter Session of the
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Peace for this County convicted of
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Keeping a Disorderly House
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, and the
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Court was pleased to Fine him, and also Sentence him to Imprisonment
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That your Petr. never intended to have given the Court the
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unnecessary Trouble he did, had it not been for his Attorney, who advised on
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Your Petr. to delay his Trial four Session to Session.
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That by Means thereof and by the many expensive Applications
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to the Court, and by your Petitr. being unhappily engaged in several
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long and Expensive Law Suits, he is become greatly reduced in his
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Circumstances.
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That your Petr. is by his said Sentence punished with
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a perpetrial Imprisonment by reason of his inability to pay the
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said Fine of Fifty Pounds, and consequently most and his Days in
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a Prison.
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That you Petr. is truly Sensible and under the greatest
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Contrition for his past Offences, and humbly hopes his further Behaviour
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will conceive your Worships thereof
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Your Petr. therefore with all Respect and
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Subscribed most humbly prays that your Worships
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will be pleased to take his Case into Consideration
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and as Mercy is the greatest Charactistied of
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Justices, that your Worship's would be pleased to
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Mitigate his Fine and Sentence in Such Manner
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as to your Worship shall Seem meet, And your
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Petr by his further Conduct, will Shew how much
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he deserves your Worships Lenity.
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And your Petr as in Duty bound will
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ever pray Etc
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