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