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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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To the Worshipful Justices at Hicks
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Hall Assembled
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The Humble Petition of
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William Gardner
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner most Humbly Acknowledge
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the Instness of his Sentence and hopes through Compossion
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for his Distressed Wife who has been ill Eight Weeks with an
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Inward Complaint Attended with a Fever and is not yet
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Perfectly Referred and whose Support Intirely defend on
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your Petitioner
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That your Petitioner has been Married Sixteen Years the
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29th. of this Month had fourteen Children and was never in
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any trouble before having by his Industry Paid every one their
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own and kept himself Intirely free from any Prosecution till
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this Unfortunate Affair happend
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That your Petitioners has drew for Mr. Trentcack at the
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Queens Head in Gray's Inn Lane Years and is now in
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her Service and if Confined according to his Centring will
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Prove the ruin of Sum and his Distress Wife.
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Your Petitioners therefore most humbly
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Implores your Worships will he pleased
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to take his unhappy Situation in your
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Consideration and Afford him such relief
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as in your Great Wisdom shall seem meet
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And your Petitioner with his Distressed Wife
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as in Duty bound will ever Pray
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