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To Chairman and the rest of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50729_occ94">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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(at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50729_geo324">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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assembled for hearing and<lb></lb>
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Trespasses Assaults and other divers Offencers within<lb></lb>
committed) at the general Sessions for September 1780.</p>
<p n="235">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50729_n235-3">Carolina Mary Bannister</rs>
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your Petitioner<del>having indicted her Master and Mistrese John and</del>
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apprenticed from Lady Dacres School in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50729_geo325"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50729_geo326">Parish of St Margaret</rs>
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to John<lb></lb>
<del>her first christian name Carolina instead of Carolina Mary</del>
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other <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50729_geo328"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50729_geo329">St Mary lebone</rs>
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or to one of them<lb></lb>
<del>Clock belonging to the Magistrater Most humbly resece the<lb></lb>
wife to escase the Indictment to you Name of Carolina<lb></lb>
instead of Carolina Bannister</del>
her aforesaid Master and<lb></lb>
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did <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50729_n235-2">Ann Archer</rs>
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having put her to the drudgery Work of cleaning their<lb></lb>
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ning her in that Station whereby she is deprived of learning her<lb></lb>
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est Livelihood when she cames out in to the World</p>
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further craves leaves to rest on your Judgement for the cruel and<lb></lb>
that She met with from the aforesaid John and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50729_n236-1">Ann Archer</rs>
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during the<lb></lb>
which she has been with them by exercising a Mode of Practice<lb></lb>
about the Arms Sholuders Neck and Head breaking and shivering<lb></lb>
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ever her Body and likewise beating her with a Stiff Cane<lb></lb>
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ioner has been in imminent Danger of the Life</p>
<p n="237">You to take her Care immediately into your most serious Considerations<lb></lb>
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from her <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50729_occ96">Apprentiship</rs>
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and enusing the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50729_n237-1">John</rs>
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Said Sum of ten Pounds which they had with her towards getting her<lb></lb>
or Shistress in order to have a comfortable Trade when she comes to<lb></lb>
be to subsist on such other Relief as to you Worship shall seem Meet</p>
<p n="238">And Your Petitioner in Duty bound will ever Pray</p>
<p n="239"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50729_n239-1">Caroline Mary Bannister</rs>
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