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That your petitioner hath been known to
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for Forty Years and
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upwards who has kindly Taken the part of Your petitioner in
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this Business well knowing that Your petitioner hath been
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much Oppressed by the said
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Richard Cook
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who is a
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That in Consideration of your petitioners having been
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so many Years in the Service of the late Lord Ligonier And
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of his late and present Majesty as aforesaid And in
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Regard That your petitioner was greatly provoked by the
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said
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at the time of Your petitioners offending
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against the Laws of his County and in Consideration of
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your petitioners such Wife and Family And your petitioner
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Hereby faithfully promising to be particularly careful of
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his Conduct in future
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays
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That your Worships Will be pleased to take
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the promises into your Worships consideration
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And that your Worships Will be pleased
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to Order your petitioner to be Liberated from
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his present Confinement Or that your Worships
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Will be pleased to Grant to Your petitioner such
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other Relief in the premises as to your Worships
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shall seem meet
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And Your petitioner shall ever pray Etc
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Recommended to the favour
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of the Worshipful Bench by}
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