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<p n="501">To the Worshipful Justices at Hicks<lb></lb>
Hall Assembled</p>
<p n="502">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50742_n502-1">William Gardner</rs>
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<p n="503"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That your Petitioner most Humbly Acknowledge<lb></lb>
the Instness of his Sentence and hopes through Compossion<lb></lb>
for his Distressed Wife who has been ill Eight Weeks with an<lb></lb>
Inward Complaint Attended with a Fever and is not yet<lb></lb>
Perfectly Referred and whose Support Intirely defend on<lb></lb>
your Petitioner</p>
<p n="504">That your Petitioner has been Married Sixteen Years the<lb></lb>
29th. of this Month had fourteen Children and was never in<lb></lb>
any trouble before having by his Industry Paid every one their<lb></lb>
own and kept himself Intirely free from any Prosecution till<lb></lb>
this Unfortunate Affair happend</p>
<p n="505">That your Petitioners has drew for Mr. Trentcack at the<lb></lb>
Queens Head in Gray's Inn Lane Years and is now in<lb></lb>
her Service and if Confined according to his Centring will<lb></lb>
Prove the ruin of Sum and his Distress Wife.</p>
<p n="506">Your Petitioners therefore most humbly<lb></lb>
Implores your Worships will he pleased<lb></lb>
to take his unhappy Situation in your<lb></lb>
Consideration and Afford him such relief<lb></lb>
as in your Great Wisdom shall seem meet</p>
<p n="507">And your Petitioner with his Distressed Wife<lb></lb>
as in Duty bound will ever Pray</p>
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