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    QUARTER-SESSION PETITIONS

    Dec 14, 2021 3 minutes

    There is a decent chance that your 17th- and 18th-century forebears will have submitted a petition to the local magistrates if they were prisoners, paupers, publicans or parish officers. These humble requests or complaints, which might come from a single individual or a large group of neighbours, were an extremely common way for ordinary people to ask the authorities for assistance. Fortunately, many thousands of these documents have survived in local archives, and transcriptions of a substantial selection

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