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<p n="435"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo155">New Prison</rs>
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16. July 1781.</p>
<p n="436">May it please your Worship</p>
<p n="437">Trusting in the Known goodness of your<lb></lb>
Worships Heart who is ever open to the prayers of the Watched<lb></lb>
and afflited enboldens me to trouble your Worship with my<lb></lb>
sad Case I was fined Six Months Imprisonment and to pay a<lb></lb>
fine of Five Pounds the time of my Imprisonment expires<lb></lb>
Tomorrow but an so unhappy as not to have An my power<lb></lb>
to raise the Money to pay the Fine this the Expence I have been<lb></lb>
A in Maintaining me or my Confinement my Poor Wife having<lb></lb>
been Obliged to part with every thing in the World to maintain me<lb></lb>
at the sametime to find support for Three helpless children<lb></lb>
which renders any sad Situation truly Distusing I therefore<lb></lb>
most humbly pray that your Worship will be pleased to take<lb></lb>
my unhappy Case into Consideration and take of the fine of<lb></lb>
Five Pounds & Court Fees which otherwise must be paid before I can have<lb></lb>
my Liberty and which is Impossible that I can raise by any<lb></lb>
means Trusting therefore in your Clemency that you will<lb></lb>
grant my humbly Prayer I big leave to Subscribe myself</p>
<p n="438">May it please your Worship</p>
<p n="439">Your Worships most Obedient<lb></lb>
Humble Servant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n439-1">Jno Williams</rs>
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<p n="440">To the Worshipful <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n440-1">John Manwaring</rs>
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