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<p n="169">Contempt of our said Lord the King and his Laws To the great Hindrance<lb></lb>
of Justice To the bad Example of all other Persons in the like case offending<lb></lb>
and against the Peace Etc.</p>
<p n="170">That the P. Deft on the sd. 21st. Day of December in the 25th. year<lb></lb>
aforesaid and Long before and always after until the Day of the taking of<lb></lb>
this Inquisition was and hath been inhabitant and resiant paying Scott<lb></lb>
and bearing Lott within the said Parish of Saint Martin Outwich<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo192">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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in London aforesaid and that within the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo193">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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in London aforesaid and that within the said<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo194">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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their is and from the Time whereof the<lb></lb>
Memory of Man is not to the Contrary there hath been a certain Court<lb></lb>
of our said present sovereign Lord the King and his Predecessors called the<lb></lb>
Wardmote held and to be held in every Year upon the Feast of Saint Thomas<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo195">the Appostle</rs>
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(unless the said Feast happened to be or fell on a Sunday<lb></lb>
and in that Case upon the Day then next following the said Feast)<lb></lb>
before the alderman of the said Ward for the Time being or in his absence before<lb></lb>
the Mayor of the said City for the Time being in which said Court<lb></lb>
according to the said Custom of the said ward for all the said Time<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
last aforesaid used and approved to wit in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo196">St. Helen</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Ward aforesaid all the Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott &<lb></lb>
bearing Lott within the said Ward for the Time being have been used and<lb></lb>
accustomed and ought and were bound by Reason of their Residence to<lb></lb>
appear and do their Suit there in the same Court and in the said Court<lb></lb>
according to the Custom of the said Ward the said Men inhabitting and<lb></lb>
resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott with in the same ward for the Time<lb></lb>
being were yearly during the whole Time last aforesaid used and accustomed<lb></lb>
and ought to appoint and chuse divers persons then inhabiting and<lb></lb>
resiant paying Scott and bearing lott within the Ward aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ90">Constables</rs>
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within and for the several Precincts of the said Ward for preserving the Peace of<lb></lb>
the Lord the King and for the apprehending of Rogues Vagabonds & other suspicious</p>
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