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<p n="671">To the Right Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50828_n671-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50828_occ123">Esqr</rs>
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and his Brethren the rest of the Magistrates met in<lb></lb>
their Sessions held at the New Sessions house on<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50828_geo206">Clerkenwell green</rs>
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in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50828_geo207">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="672"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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The humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50828_n672-1">Elizabeth Harvey</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50828_n672-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
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Your Worships Petitioner on the Malicious representation<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50828_n672-2">Jane Harrison</rs>
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was Indicted on her prosecution for an assault<lb></lb>
in September Sessions last of which having got Certificate<lb></lb>
she afterwards Bailed the Indictment and in due Course of<lb></lb>
time previous to the last October Sessions gave the Prosecutrix<lb></lb>
Notice that she Intended to Surrender and take her tryal<lb></lb>
and Entered her Venire for that purpose and did attend the<lb></lb>
whole of the said Sessions but the prosecutrix did not Attend<lb></lb>
alledging on the last day of the said Sessions (being casually<lb></lb>
met with by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50828_n672-3">Christopher Nowlan</rs>
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one of Your Petitioners Bail)<lb></lb>
that she the said prosecutrix would not attend as she had done<lb></lb>
all she Intended against your petitioner and since then the<lb></lb>
Prosecutrix hath removed from the place she then lodged at<lb></lb>
to some other where your petitioner cannot find out</p>
<p n="673">Your Worship's Petitioner is a married Woman<lb></lb>
having her husband Living and one Child are Exceeding<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and distressed and her Bail are in very low Circumstances<lb></lb>
so that she nor they are<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Capable of Employing any<lb></lb>
Person in the Law to instruct them by means where of<lb></lb>
relying on the humanity of your Worships Your Petitioner<lb></lb>
humbly Supplicates your Worships Would be Pleased<lb></lb>
to Inform her what is necessary for her in this Case<lb></lb>
to do and that on Account of her and her Bails</p>
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