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That at the General Session of the Peace held for this
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Petition selling forth various hardships loses and Expences which he
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in his Custody since the then late dreadful Riots that your Worships were
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intimate to your Petitioner that if he continued to labour under such
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circumstances for any longer time your Worships would be pleased to
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make him some further allowance That your Petitioner hath continued
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present is within the knowledge of many of Your Worships but should
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