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<p n="468">To the Right Honble. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50379_n468-1">Willm. Benn</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50379_occ135">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50379_occ136">Lord<lb></lb>
Mayor</rs>
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and the Rest of the Worshipfull the Bench<lb></lb>
of Justices now Sitting at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50379_geo336">Old Bailey</rs>
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<p n="469">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50379_n469-1">John Cooke</rs>
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now a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50379_occ137">Prisoner</rs>
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in his Majestys Goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50379_geo337">Newgate</rs>
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<p n="470"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner was Yesterday Indicted Arraigned<lb></lb>
and Tryed at the Sessions House in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50379_geo338">Old Bailey</rs>
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upon a Charge laid<lb></lb>
agt. him for Carrying Fire Arms Etc. Upon the Statute agt. Smugling<lb></lb>
And your Petitioners Councell Attorney and Witnesses not being<lb></lb>
present at his Tryall as they Promised and ought to have been<lb></lb>
your Petitioner was found Guilty without any Defence being made<lb></lb>
for him</p>
<p n="471">That your Petitioner was so farr from ever Abusing<lb></lb>
the Officers of the Revenue or Opposing them in their Duty that he<lb></lb>
always Endeavoured to Prevent their being Abused And was the only<lb></lb>
Person that was Instrumentall in Saving the Life of the <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50379_n471-1">Thos<lb></lb>
Mortimer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50379_n471-2">Thos. Hurst</rs>
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two officers of the Customs at last Bourn<lb></lb>
in Sussex and Five Dragoons And also the Life of one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50379_n471-3">John Bolton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
another <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50379_geo339">Custom house</rs>
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officer when taken by the Smuglers as may<lb></lb>
Appear by the Certificate hereunder written for which reasons</p>
<p n="472">I do Certifye that the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50379_occ138">Prisoner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50379_n472-1">John Cooke</rs>
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once Saved my Life<lb></lb>
when I was taken and Abused<lb></lb>
by the Smuglers in the Year 1744</p>
<p n="473"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50379_n473-1">Jno Bolton</rs>
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</p>
<p n="474">Your Petitioner most humbly Prays you<lb></lb>
will be Pleased to Consider his present<lb></lb>
Miserable State and Condition and<lb></lb>
Recomend him to his Majesty as an<lb></lb>
Object of Mercy and Compassion</p>
<p n="475">And Your Petitioner as in duty bound<lb></lb>
will for ever Pray Etc.</p>
<p n="476">The mark<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50379_n476-1">John Cooke</rs>
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