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Liber H. S.
No. 1
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Bush, a languishing Prisoner in Talbot County Goal; Edward
Dossey, a languishing Prisoner in Dorchester County Goal; Joseph
Thompson and Abraham Dean, languishing Prisoners in Somerset
County Goal; Patrick Carroll, Adam Gough, and Elizabeth Grant,
languishing Prisoners in Baltimore County Goal; Thomas Somes,
John Maccauly, Richard Walmsley, John Glover, Richard Clark,
James Tapper, and Thomas Collins, languishing Prisoners in Anne-
Arundel County Goal; Philip Lynham, Robert Mark, Thomas Cat-
terall, John Bell, Jacob Myres, John Berisford, and Thomas Thomp-
son, languishing Prisoners in Frederick County Goal; George Clarke
and John Brown, languishing Prisoners in Prince-George's County
Goal; and Thomas Wyley, a languishing Prisoner in Calvert County
Goal; by their humble Petitions to this Present General Assembly
have set forth, That they have continued Prisoners for Debt, in the
Custody of the Sheriffs of the several Counties aforesaid, viz.
Constantine Bull, John Hayes, William Grace, and Anne Garrish,
in the Custody of the Sheriff of Caecil County; John Hunt, John
Green, John Nimmo, and John Temple Parsons, in the Custody of
the Sheriff of Kent County; William Maynard, William Greenwood,
Peter Johnson, Goven Dunbar, Charles Mac Carthy, and Lewis
De ford, in the Custody of the Sheriff of Queen-Anne' s County;
John Bush, in the Custody of the Sheriff of Talbot County; Edward
Dossey, in the Custody of the Sheriff of Dorchester County; Joseph
Thompson and Abraham Dean, in the Custody of the Sheriff of
Somerset County; Patrick Carroll, Adam Gough, and Elizabeth
Grant, in the Custody of the Sheriff of Baltimore County; Thomas
Somes, John Maccauly, Richard Walmsley, John Glover, Richard
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Clark, James Tapper, and Thomas Collins; in the Custody of the
Sheriff of Anne-Arundel County-; Philip Lynham, Robert Mark,
Thomas Catterall, John Bell, Jacob Myres, John Berisford, and
Thomas Thompson, in the Custody of the Sheriff of Frederick
County; George Clarke and John Brown, in the Custody of the
Sheriff of Prince-George's County; and Thomas Wyley, in the
Custody of the Sheriff of Calvert County; for a considerable Time
past, and still continue in the like deplorable Circumstances, not being
able to redeem their Bodies with all their Estate or Interest they have
in the World, which they would readily surrender up and part with
to their several and respective Creditors, if they would accept of the
same, and grant the said Petitioners their Liberty; which seems so
unlikely for them to obtain, that (unless relieved by a particular
Act, to be passed in their Favour, which, by their said Petitions
they have humbly prayed, they must inevitably continue Prisoners for
Life: And for that the Truth of the said Petitioners Allegations is
made appear to this General Assembly, and that the said Petitioners
are fit Objects of Charity, and that their lying in Goal can be no
Benefit to their Creditors: It is humbly prayed that the said Peti-
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