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<p n="818">To His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50744_occ193">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo868">Middx</rs>
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in their General Session of the Peace held for the said County in the<lb></lb>
month of September 1781 assembled</p>
<p n="819">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50744_n819-1">Samual Newport</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50744_occ194">Keeper</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo869">New Prison</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo870">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo871">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="820"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That at the General Session of the Peace held for this<lb></lb>
County in the month of December last your Petitioner presented as<lb></lb>
Petition selling forth various hardships loses and Expences which he<lb></lb>
then had suffered and incurred in consequence of the number of prisoner's<lb></lb>
in his Custody since the then late dreadful Riots that your Worships were<lb></lb>
then so indulgent as to grant your Petitioner Twenty Pounds and to<lb></lb>
intimate to your Petitioner that if he continued to labour under such<lb></lb>
circumstances for any longer time your Worships would be pleased to<lb></lb>
make him some further allowance That your Petitioner hath continued<lb></lb>
to labour under circumstances of the like kind from that time to the<lb></lb>
present is within the knowledge of many of Your Worships but should<lb></lb>
it be doubted your Petitioner is ready to inform your Worships of the<lb></lb>
particulars of his situation in respect to the extraordinary trouble anxoity<lb></lb>
and Expence he has suffered and even at present suffers in the management<lb></lb>
and Government of the very great number of annuity and desperate<lb></lb>
offenders which have been in the time last abovementioned and now<lb></lb>
are in his Custody</p>
<p n="821">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly and<lb></lb>
earnestly prays that your worships will be<lb></lb>
pleased to take his case into Consideration and<lb></lb>
grant to him such other recompense as to your<lb></lb>
Worships shall seem meet</p>
<p n="822">And Your Petitioner as in duty bound will<lb></lb>
ever pray Etc.</p>
<p n="823"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50744_n823-1">Samuel Newport</rs>
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