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<p n="1"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50643_geo1">Newgate</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50643_geo2">Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="2"> the <obscured></obscured>
Day of August 177 4</p>
<p n="3"> To <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50643_n3-1">John Shewood</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50643_occ1">Esqr</rs>
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<p n="4"> One of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50643_occ2">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <lb></lb>
said County</p>
<p n="5"> The Humble PETITION of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50643_n5-1">John Sheppard</rs>
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a Prisoner<lb></lb>
in the said Prison</p>
<p n="6"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> SHEWETH, </note>
<lb></lb>
THAT your Petitioner, on the Twenty-eighth Day of<lb></lb>
April, in the Year of Our Lord 1774, was actually a<lb></lb>
Prisoner for Debt, confined in the said Prison, and hath<lb></lb>
continued so ever since, and is willing in all Things to<lb></lb>
conform himself to the Directions of an Act of Parliament<lb></lb>
made in the Fourteenth Year of th Reign of his present<lb></lb>
Majesty King GEORGE III. intituled, An Act for the Relief<lb></lb>
of Insolvent Debtors, and for the Relief of Bankrupts in certain<lb></lb>
Cases, to the Benefit of which your Petitioner conceives to<lb></lb>
is entitled.</p>
<p n="7"> That the annexed Schedule (to be sworn unto by me, at<lb></lb>
the next General or Quarter Session, or any Adjournment<lb></lb>
thereof) contains a full and true Account of all your Peti-<lb></lb>
tioner's Real and Personal Estate s of every Kind and Nature<lb></lb>
whatsoever, in Possession, Reversion, Remainder or Expec-<lb></lb>
tancy, excepting Wearing Apparel, Bedding for himself and<lb></lb>
Family, Working Tools, and necessary Implements for h is<lb></lb>
Occupation and Calling, a Sum of Money not exceeding Forty<lb></lb>
Shillings, and those in the Whole, not exceeding the Value<lb></lb>
of Twenty Pounds.</p>
<p n="8">Your Petitioner, therefore, humbly prays your wor-<lb></lb>
ship to grant your Warrant directed to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50643_occ3">Keeper<lb></lb>
of the said Prison</rs>
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to bring your Peti-<lb></lb>
tioner, and the Warrant or Warrants of Detainer,<lb></lb>
together with the Copy or Copies of the Cause<lb></lb>
o<obscured></obscured>
Causes, with which your Petitioner is charged<lb></lb>
in his said Custody before his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50643_occ4">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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at the General or Quarter Session<lb></lb>
of the Peace to be holden in and for the said <lb></lb>
County or any Adjournment<lb></lb>
thereof, which shall be held next after the Ex-<lb></lb>
piration of Ten Days from the Date hereof, pur-<lb></lb>
suant to the Tenor and Direction of the said Act of<lb></lb>
Parliment.</p>
<p n="9">And your Petitioner, as in Duty bound, shall ever Pray, Etc.</p>
<p n="10"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50643_n10-1">John Sheppard</rs>
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