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To the Worshipful
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The humble Petition of
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Elizabeth Browne
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner was in the fourteenth day
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of the instant July Unfortunately Convicted for
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Feloniously
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and Caring away a Bonet
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and other things which your petitioner is intirely in
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at off being
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Unlawfully Convicted by the Oath of a Wicked
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Person
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That your Petitioner is a person not
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gets her going by dealing in Old Cloaths
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That sometime agoe your Pet took a
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Bonett out of pawn which she bought of a
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person she put casually in the Street.
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That your Petitioner went after
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to
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the
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Stepney Green
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about some
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Business and being there a Woman who say he is
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the prison petitioner to be robbed charge your Petr.
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witts atending Bennett and seized the Bench she
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has had on a alledging the some tobe her property and
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took your Petr before a Justice and by false Evidence
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was Committed to prison
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That your Petr is by the Conviction orderd
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to be imprisoned for two Months That your Petr.
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is a
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and is Agt quiet destitute with Coursining
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Children and in great distress and having other
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support than by your Petitioner's acquirement
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