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Honourable Bench there for the City and Liberty of Westmr.
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The Humble Petition of
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Thomas Steel
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That your Petitioner Sometime since
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One
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(who was a Lodger to your Petitioner)
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for an Assault upon her in her Own House Vizt. in Beating and
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Dragging her by the Hair of her Head and after Using her in a
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Barbarone manner turned her Husband out of Doors without
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manner of Provocation Given by your Petitioner who was then and us
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now Bigg with Child and the said Charles Gallagher is now
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Indebted to your Petitioners Husband in upwards of Fifty
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Shillings for Lodging to which Prosecution the said Charles
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Gallagher has Given in Bail and Served your Petitioner wth.
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the Notice Annexed
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Your Petitioner therefore
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humbly Beggs that your Worships
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will take this Case in your
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Considerations and in Regard
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of the Hardship of her Case will
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be Pleased to Deal with the abovesaid
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Charles Gallagher as in your
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Lordships Judgmt. Shall seem
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meet.
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And your Petitioner (as in Duty bound
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Shall ever Pray Etc.
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