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<p n="488">To the Worshipful Justices at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50742_geo184">Hicks's<lb></lb>
Hall</rs>
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Assembled</p>
<p n="489">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n489-1">William Kerley</rs>
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<p n="490"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner most humbly Acknowledges the<lb></lb>
Instness of his Sentence but having been Afflicted with<lb></lb>
the Rumatizm and been in the Hospital nineteen Weeks<lb></lb>
and came out of the Hospital only a Week before this<lb></lb>
Unfortunate Accident happend.</p>
<p n="491">That your Petitioner is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50742_occ100">Gentlemans Servant</rs>
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but<lb></lb>
by means of his illness has made away with what trifle<lb></lb>
of Money he saved when in Place and if Confined according<lb></lb>
to his Sentence it will Prove his utter recive as he must<lb></lb>
part with his Cloaths for a Support having no friend<lb></lb>
in London to Assist him</p>
<p n="492">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly<lb></lb>
Implores your Worships will be pleased<lb></lb>
to take his Deplorable Situation into<lb></lb>
Consideration and Afford him such<lb></lb>
Relief as in your Great Wisdom shall<lb></lb>
seem meet.</p>
<p n="493">And your Petitioner as in Duty<lb></lb>
bound will ever pray.</p>
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