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The humble Petition of
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John Eddy
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That Your Petitioner was tried on Tuesday last before your
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Worship on a Bill of Indictment preferred against him for an Assault
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by one
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- It is not your Petitioner's Design to even Attempts
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to Question the Judgment of Court or Jury in finding him Guilty but thinks
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his Case hard in being kept under Confinement after the Sum of Twenty
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five pounds has been preferred which is the Moiety of the Fine levied
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over since the Evening on which the Gentlemen of the Jury found him
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Guilty and that merely under the Colour of Exerting seven additional
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Pounds as further Expences. Your Petitioners therefore humbly begs your
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Worship will take his Case into Consideration and Order him to be released
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from his Confinement on Payment of the Sum of Twenty five Pounds
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And Your Petitioner as in Duty bound
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Shall ever Pray Etc
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NB. The Former Attorney for the Prosecution is now under Confinement and a second Attorney
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comes forward and Demands £12. Costs and threatens to bring an Action for More Extensive
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Costs alluding that the worthy Chairman as conceived at a fine which he calls a small one
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which the Defendant is very ill able to pay the Moiety or one half part of
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