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To The Honorble Sir
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John Gonson
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Chairman
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, & the rest
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of the honorble. bench of Justices of his Majesties Peace Etca.
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Edward Gregory
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aged 83 Years, prisoner
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for Debt in the
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Most humbly Sheweth
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That your honor's Petitr. has been herein confinement Since 17
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August last past in which Space of time all my friends have left me
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I am now in the most deplorable condition imaginable for since 25 May
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Fr: Geary
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Keeper
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has turned me on
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the Common
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Side, a place worse than
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the Spanish inquisition it wanting Several material repairs Such as
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the plaistering over head to be help'd Scarsely one can go in to it without pounds
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weights falling on their heads, a Continual dust falling down when any
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one passes over head, one of the windows sd. Fr. Geary has lissened by a half
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alltho, hill barefaced by endeavours affirm that he has made a new window in it
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whereas Sd. window was made when the Goal was built, as may be easily
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seen when compared with the windows adjacent thereto, at sd. window
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there's a Chimney of a Shade all most in a levell wt. Sd. window, which fills
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sd. Common Side with a continued Smoak very insufferable that colipses
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that very little light that's therein. Sd. Shade is a meer imposition & in
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fringement on the privileges of the Jail as well as on
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passage
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Likewise Sd. Fr. Geary, openly & avowedly, keeps me from the privilege
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of the begging box; which in all Goals is allowed to the Debtors of ye Comon
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side, and he allows people to be partakers of sd box, who by all appearance
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have no need of it & who by on the masters side Etca this he persists in
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alltho' I have demanded my dues Several times of Sd. Geary, or his deputy
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Wherefore your honor's petitr. most humbly implore's your
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honor's protection in this imposition, that You would be pleased to take
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into consideration this my wretched state, & as far as is consistant with
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Justice & Equity you would order & command sd. Geary to give me my
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just dues which he has to long kept from me. That sd common Side may
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be repaired, that I or any who come those may n't be indangerously
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being Knocked in the head, or Smoothered in the ruins of a wold
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plaistering Etca. And that the Clause of an act of Parliament Car:
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may be put up in a publick place in the Jail, which sd. Honble.
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Court ordered Sd. Geary to put up sometime ago. & which he promised
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to do, in his petition of 22d. June last (2d. day of Qr. Sesso.) which is
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contempt of Sd. Honble. Court he has left undone, not has he acted
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according to any promise he made in Sd petition. Etca. That felono
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may n't be allowed to come near, nor drink, & nor riot before my door
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place in all ages, that has belonged to Sd. Drs. Common Side, till forcbd,
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has made new Customs, which before a Lord Chief Justice he
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