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Most Humble Sheweth
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unto your Worships that your Petitioner was Indicted
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in April Session for an Assault commited on
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in the said County And at this
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Present Session appeared and Traversed his Indictment and
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upon the Trial the Despicable Witnesses which appeared and
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Sworn against your Petitioner to prove the said Assaults are Persons
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of no Character Reputation or Credit whatsoever as It as been Asserted
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since your Petitioners Trial that they were Determined to swear
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Enough to find him Guilty of the supposed assault in Order to
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Charge your Petitioner with a Large Fine upon such Evidence
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your Petitioner was found Guilty by a Respectable Jury and the
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Court was Pleased to sentence your Petitioner six Weeks Imprisonment
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and now is under Confinement for the Same And your Petitioner
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further Humbly Summitteth to your Worships that your Petition
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is a Sober Young Man nor Never was Guilty of any Breach of
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the Peace whatsoever and always Bore the Best of Characters
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for Humanity and Beneviolence to all his friends Neighbours and
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Acquaintances as will appear By the Names of the under signed
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Gentlemen Freeholders of the
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Your Petitioner Therefore Humbly Prays
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it your Worships Can be permitted by Law to
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Mitigate your Petitioner Sentence to Seven Days
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as your Petitioner is fearful by being Six Weeks
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in Confinement will corrupt your Petitioners good
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Morals and understanding Being now in Confinement
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Petitioner and your Petitioner shall ever Pray
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We the Undersigned Freeholders of the
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do Assert that what the Petitioner has said in this Petition
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is True as Witness our Hands.
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