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Petitions for assistance from Benjamin Workman, 1810 - 1818

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/12: 485-494
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Some were written while Workman was imprisoned in the debtor's prison at Newgate. The petitions include a poster giving details of his services as a tutor in navigation, mathematics, nautical astronomy, etc. [RGO 14/12: 494].

Dates: 1810 - 1818
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