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<p n="465"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">To Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n465-1">George Booth</rs>
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<p n="466">The Humble petition of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n466-1">Charles Ostoby</rs>
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A Sipner<lb></lb>
In. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo171">New Prison</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo172">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<p n="467"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your petitioner was tried at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo173">Hicks Hall</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n467-1">John Morgan</rs>
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<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
in for Sessions on Suspicion of having committed a Capt, and for the same<lb></lb>
received Sentence, of one year imprisonment, one publickly whipped and ones<lb></lb>
stand in the pillory which has thrown Your petitioner into the greatest in<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
mine, as he enjoys but a very indifferent state of health, with that is very being think at<lb></lb>
time Soligen him to keep to his had for as Week together your petitioner as apprehentice<lb></lb>
his indagoing his Sentence of Standing in the pillary will prove total to him, at he is<lb></lb>
of a<obscured></obscured>
weeks and sickly constitution, and in his Nine and forty Years of Age, also<lb></lb>
was kept in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo174">Workhouse</rs>
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for this six Years last past being not able to work for <lb></lb>
his bread, an account of his Lame ness and Sickness.</p>
<p n="468">Your petitioner had many respectable witnessess that appeared in is behalf<lb></lb>
to Certify that Your petitioner also shore a good Character and his names<lb></lb>
in<obscured></obscured>
tion before this informants affair happend.</p>
<p n="469">Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays that you will be pleased to<lb></lb>
take your petitions hard case into consideration and with your great Humanity<lb></lb>
intenced in his behalf with <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n469-1">John Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ92">Esqr</rs>
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. so far as to get that punishment<lb></lb>
of standing in the field before given him, on his ill state of health.</p>
<p n="470">And Your petitioner as in duty<lb></lb>
bound will for ever pray</p>
<p n="471"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n471-1">Charles Oxtoby</rs>
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</p>
<p n="472"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo175">New prison</rs>
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June 27th.. 1781}</p>
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