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<p n="416">To the Worshipful <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n416-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ65">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ66">Chairman</rs>
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and the Rest of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ67">Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo145">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the peace at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo146">Hicks Hall</rs>
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assembled</p>
<p n="417">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n417-1">Fielding Empson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ68">prisoner</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo147">New Prison</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo148">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<p n="418"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That Your Petitioner was on Monday last<lb></lb>
Convicted before your Worships for making an Assault upon one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n418-1">Richard Cook</rs>
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and was for such Offence Sentenced to be imprisoned<lb></lb>
for the space of One Month in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo149">New Prison</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="419">That your petitioner was in March last Committed<lb></lb>
to the said prison upon an Indictment for Wilfully Shooting at<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n419-1">Richard Cook</rs>
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and was Confined therein for one Week<lb></lb>
And in April Session following your petitioner was Tried to<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo150">Old Bailey</rs>
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and honourably acquitted</p>
<p n="420">That your petitioner hath been greatly Harrassed and<lb></lb>
Perplexed by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n420-1">Richard Cook</rs>
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for sometime last past and<lb></lb>
Your petitioner hath been at upwards of Fifty pounds Expence in<lb></lb>
defending himself against the above prosecutions</p>
<p n="421">That your petitioner hath a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ69">Wife</rs>
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and Four Children<lb></lb>
Three of whom are now Ill with the Small pox and your petitioners<lb></lb>
Wife is in a very bad state of health and greatly Aggrieved by your<lb></lb>
petitioners being in Confinement</p>
<p n="422">That your petitioner hath been in the service of<lb></lb>
Government for Twenty five Years and upwards as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ70">Master Gunner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo151">the Tower</rs>
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and humbly hopes he has always Conducted himself<lb></lb>
with propriety And was before his Appointment and since<lb></lb>
Many Years <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ71">Groom of the Chamber</rs>
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and a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ72">Close Attendant</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
the person of the late <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ73">Lord Ligonier</rs>
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and was in Four<lb></lb>
Engagements with his Lordship And attended his Lordship<lb></lb>
to the time of his Death</p>
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