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To the Right Honorable
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William Beckford
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Lord Mayor of the
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City of London
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The humble Petition of the Comon Council
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and Inquest men of the Precinct of the
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without in the said
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City & other Inhabitants of the same
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whose names are hereto sub-
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scribed,
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Sheweth
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That a comon Alehouse, Known by the
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sign of the One
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Tun, at the end of
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Field-Lane
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near Holborn bridge
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, in the said Precinct, has
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for a long time past, given great offence, and
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uneasiness to many of your Petitioners, and
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other reputable and substantial Inhabitants
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of
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, & the Neighborhood
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the said Alehouse being frequented, chiefly, &
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for the most part, by very disorderly and bad
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people, who dwell in, has cut, to iter about, and
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resort to
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& other such like places thereabout.
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That the Comon-Council-men & Constables,
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have several times, within the last year or two,
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been at great trouble & some of pence in apprehending
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Street walkers, & other suspected persons, resorting
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to the said House & Neighborhood, & caused them
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to be taken before the Magistrates of the said City,
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to be dealt with, according to Law, in order and
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with design, if possible, by that means, to have
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the so great cause of offence discontinued, but
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have not been able so to do, by reason most of the
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persons so apprehended, have, by the lenity of the
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Magistrates, been dismissed unpunished.
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