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<p n="6">To the Worshipful the Chairman and the Rest<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65471_n6-1">his Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65471_occ4">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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now in<lb></lb>
their Quarter Sessions assembled</p>
<p n="7">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65471_n7-1">Mary Brown</rs>
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<p n="8"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Poor Petitioner hath a Poor Blind<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65471_occ5">Husband</rs>
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to Maintain by her Industry<lb></lb>
that She hath no means of obtaining an<lb></lb>
Honest Livelyhood for herself and her said<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65471_occ6">Husband</rs>
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but by dealing in Old Cloaths, that your<lb></lb>
Petitioner hath already suffered Imprison-<lb></lb>
ment in the Gatehouse on account of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65471_occ7">Assault</rs>
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of which She is Convicted which had<lb></lb>
like to have Cost her, her Life, being imprisoned<lb></lb>
at the time She was Ill of a violent Fever<lb></lb>
that Yr. Petitr. has Witnesses to Prove that<lb></lb>
She was Cruelly Beat and bruised by the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65471_occ8">Prosecutrix</rs>
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Mrs. Lock at the time She is<lb></lb>
charged with having assaulted the said Mrs.<lb></lb>
Lock, but being utterly unable to Fee<lb></lb>
any Councell Etcto defend he Prosecution<lb></lb>
was advised by her Friends to Plead Guilty<lb></lb>
to the Indictments</p>
<p n="9">Therefore Your Petitr. hopes that your Worships<lb></lb>
will take her distressed Situation as well as her Poor<lb></lb>
Blind Husbands into your Kind Consideration and<lb></lb>
shew her all the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65471_geo4">Lenity</rs>
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in your Powers</p>
<p n="10">Mary<lb></lb>
Brown</p>
<p n="11">And yr. Poor Petitr. as in Duty Bound will<lb></lb>
ever</p>
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