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May it please your Worships
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I most humbly crave Leave to
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your Worships that I have been unfortunately conf
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Debt in
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almost five years, and have
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my self to the late Act of Parliament made for
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of Insolvents, & am intituled to a regular Discharge
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morrow, having then been 33: Days in the Gazette and the
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Days Notice given to my Creditors, therefore I most humbly
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Worships will be pleased to order the Keeper of this Great
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bring me before your Worships, and returnd the Warrant granted
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me; under the hand & Seal of
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Jno Troughton
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Esqr
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: one of his
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Majts:
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Justices of the Peace
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for the County of
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Middlesex
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, bearing
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date the
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Eighth day of June last
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that I may be discharged from my
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long & tedious Confinement, or otherways disposed of as your
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Worships in your great Wisdom shall think most meet
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I am with great deference.
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Your Worships most Distress'd
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but Truly Obedient humble
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Willm: Saunders
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July the 7th 1725
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P:S. I hope your Worships
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my telling you that I shall in
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perish unless speedily relived
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