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<p n="1">To the Worshipfull his Majesties Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65396_geo1">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in their General Quarter Sessions Assembled</p>
<p n="2">The Humble Petition of the Prisoners for<lb></lb>
Debt Confin'd in his Majties. Prison of the<lb></lb>
Gate house <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65396_geo2">Westminster</rs>
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<p n="3"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65396_n3-1">Francis Geary</rs>
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the Keeper of the<lb></lb>
Prison and his Agents have been guilty of the severall Extor<lb></lb>
tions and Abuses following, that is to say They have taken<lb></lb>
two pence in the Shilling out of the Sacrament Money, and<lb></lb>
proportionably out of all other Exlesiastical Charities for<lb></lb>
writing down the Names of the persons Intituled there to and<lb></lb>
carrying the said Names to <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65396_geo3">the Abbey</rs>
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. That they have inserted<lb></lb>
the Turnkey and his Wife and severall others no ways Intituled<lb></lb>
to the said Charities in such Lists.</p>
<p n="4">2d. That the said Geary & his Agents on or about July<lb></lb>
last secreted a Gift of the Lady Robinson's of ten Shillings &<lb></lb>
applied it to their own use And also that they Extorted Six<lb></lb>
pence a man out of a late gift of 12 Stone of Beef and<lb></lb>
Sixty leaves of Bread, or else they wou'd have deprived<lb></lb>
those who had refused to pay the same of their Shared of such<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65396_geo4">Charity And</rs>
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did actually take one Stone of Beef and five<lb></lb>
Leaves of Bread from one Prisoner, which was given by<lb></lb>
another, and which Bread and Beef they Eat in their own<lb></lb>
Family.</p>
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