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To the Worshipful the Chairman, and the rest
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The Humble Petition of
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William Squire
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner is of the Age of
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Sixty two Years
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of Age
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and is now
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retired thro' Infirmity and age
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That your Petitioner was on the 6th,
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day of June last chozen by the Court Leet
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held at
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as a
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for the
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said Parish
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That your Petitioner being of such
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Age of Sixty two Years and being rather
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infirm and having now a Substitute
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ready
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Your Petitioner Humbly Prays
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that he may be allowed to
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find such Substitute, and that there
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his Age and Infirmity's he may
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Head bore or Constable,
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And Yr. Petr, as in duty
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bound will ever Pray Etc
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