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Day of August 177 4
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THAT your Petitioner, on the Twenty-eighth Day of
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April, in the Year of Our Lord 1774, was actually a
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Prisoner for Debt, confined in the said Prison, and hath
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continued so ever since, and is willing in all Things to
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conform himself to the Directions of an Act of Parliament
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made in the Fourteenth Year of th Reign of his present
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Majesty King GEORGE III. intituled, An Act for the Relief
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That the annexed Schedule (to be sworn unto by me, at
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the next General or Quarter Session, or any Adjournment
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Your Petitioner, therefore, humbly prays your wor-
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together with the Copy or Copies of the Cause
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