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<p n="140">To the worshipful <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50739_n140-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50739_n140-1" type="surname" value="Mainwaring"></interp>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50739_occ45">Esqr</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50739_occ45" type="occupation" value="Esqr"></interp>
.<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50739_occ46">Chairman of the Session of the Peace</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50739_geo31">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and the rest of His<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50739_occ47">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County in their General Quarter Session of the<lb></lb>
Peace held for the said County in the Month<lb></lb>
of April 1781 Assembled.</p>
<p n="141">The Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50739_n141-1">Edward Hall</rs>
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</p>
<p n="142"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That in January Session 1769.<lb></lb>
Your worships Petitioner was appointed to the<lb></lb>
office of Governor or <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50739_occ48">Keeper of the House of<lb></lb>
Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50739_geo32">Clerkenwell</rs>
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, in which Sittuation<lb></lb>
he has now been upwards of Twelve years, It<lb></lb>
is not for your Petitioner to say what his<lb></lb>
Conduct hath been, but con assure your<lb></lb>
worships, that he hath always exerted his<lb></lb>
abilities to the interest of the County.</p>
<p n="143">That bring passed the Meridion of life<lb></lb>
and the Oldest Officer that attends the<lb></lb>
Court, your petitioner hopes he shall<lb></lb>
stand excused for now praying to be<lb></lb>
removed into another Situation.</p>
<p n="144">That much to be lamented<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50739_occ49"> Death</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of that good and excellent Officer Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50739_n144-1">John White</rs>
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has occasioned a vacancy</p>
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