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To the Worshipful his Majestys
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner was on or about the
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Twenty seventh day of June last Convicted in the Penalty
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of Five pounds by
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for the said County upon an Information
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James Bradley Pegler
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in the said County on the seventeenth day of June
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in the Year of our Lord 1797 take and receive of and from
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one
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a child Petticoat and Bed Gown and did then and
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Great Britain she the said Mary Elizabeth Clarke
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age of Twelve Years Contrary to the Statute Etc
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That your Petitioner conceives himself agrieved
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly
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prays your worships will be pleased to
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permit him to enter his said appeal
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so that the same may be heard at
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this present General Quarter Session
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of the Peace and that your worships
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hearing and determining the same
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And your Petitioner shall Etc.
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