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<p n="394">To the Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n394-1">Thos: Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50510_occ84">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50510_occ85">Chairman</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
others his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50510_occ86">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo203">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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, now in their General Session of the Peace at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo204">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50510_geo205">St. John Street</rs>
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in the Said County Assembled</p>
<p n="395">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n395-1">James<lb></lb>
Bray</rs>
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brook.</p>
<p n="396"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner was at the Last Quarter Session of the<lb></lb>
Peace for this County convicted of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50510_occ87">Keeping a Disorderly House</rs>
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, and the<lb></lb>
Court was pleased to Fine him, and also Sentence him to Imprisonment</p>
<p n="397">That your Petr. never intended to have given the Court the<lb></lb>
unnecessary Trouble he did, had it not been for his Attorney, who advised on<lb></lb>
Your Petr. to delay his Trial four Session to Session.</p>
<p n="398">That by Means thereof and by the many expensive Applications<lb></lb>
to the Court, and by your Petitr. being unhappily engaged in several<lb></lb>
long and Expensive Law Suits, he is become greatly reduced in his<lb></lb>
Circumstances.</p>
<p n="399">That your Petr. is by his said Sentence punished with<lb></lb>
a perpetrial Imprisonment by reason of his inability to pay the<lb></lb>
said Fine of Fifty Pounds, and consequently most and his Days in<lb></lb>
a Prison.</p>
<p n="400">That you Petr. is truly Sensible and under the greatest<lb></lb>
Contrition for his past Offences, and humbly hopes his further Behaviour<lb></lb>
will conceive your Worships thereof</p>
<p n="401">Your Petr. therefore with all Respect and<lb></lb>
Subscribed most humbly prays that your Worships<lb></lb>
will be pleased to take his Case into Consideration<lb></lb>
and as Mercy is the greatest Charactistied of<lb></lb>
Justices, that your Worship's would be pleased to<lb></lb>
Mitigate his Fine and Sentence in Such Manner<lb></lb>
as to your Worship shall Seem meet, And your<lb></lb>
Petr by his further Conduct, will Shew how much<lb></lb>
he deserves your Worships Lenity.</p>
<p n="402">And your Petr as in Duty bound will<lb></lb>
ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="403"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50510_n403-1">Jas. Braybrooke</rs>
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