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P adjorn. Jovis Underimo die Octobrs. 1716
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Order agt. psons who
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committ. Nusances, & agt.
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petty Constables who
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pmitt. psons to Sing
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Seditions Songs & Vagrts.
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to begg in the streets, & agt.
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loose Boys Prtending to
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them shoes, & for high
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Constables to prsent the
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defaults of their petty
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Constables & Headboroughs
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Jon. Milner
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Hen: Fetherston
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Ja: Misson
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Jos. Offley
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D'Oyly Michell
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This Court being informed by severall Inhitants of this County,
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That notwithstanding the severall complaints by them made to his
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now Maties Justices of the peace for the sd County against such
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persons as daily Committ. great nusances in the publick Streets
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within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in this County by opening
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their Collar doors, and bringing their Shop boards into the footway
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and by driveing Wheelbarrows, and by placeing of Stalls, Chairs, Stand
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Wheelbarrows, basketts of fruit and other Goods in the publick Streets
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Lanes and Passages, and of other such like offences, and against
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such Inhabitants of this County, Who suffer the pavements before
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their doors to be in
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decay for want of repair, and alsoe
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agt. the petty Constables and Headboroughs of this County Who
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permitt and suffer severall cole and disorderly persons to assemble
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in the publick Streets, Lanes and Passages and to sing & disperse
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seditions Songs Ballads & pamphletts reflecting on his Matie &
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his Government, and Alsoe permitt severall Inhabitants within
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this County to keep Gameing Houses and disorderly Victualling
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Houses and to entertain Severall lewd & disorderly
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Victualling
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Houses
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persons at unseasonable Hours, and alsoe permitt severall
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Persons blind Lame or pretending soe to be and others with
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distorted Limbs or pretending to some bodily infirmity to blow
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themselves to beg in the Streets Highways or passages to the great annoyance
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and danger of his Maties Subjects passing along the Streets and Highways
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upon their lawfull occacons, and in Condempt of severall acts of
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Parliament in such cases made and of the penalties therein contained
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and of severall Orders made at the Generall and Quarter Sessions of the
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peace held for this County
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presenting to the this Court
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For that the sd.
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Constables and Headboroughs have been renass in their duty in
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observance of the sd. Orders, and not carrying the Offenders before one
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or more of his Maties Justices of the peace for this County to be
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punished according to their Demerritts; And upon reading of a
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presentment made unto this Court by the Grand Jury for this County
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respresenting to this Court That of late there have been, and still
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daily are divers loose idle and disorderly Boys who wander about
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in Severall Streets and passages within the weekly Bills of
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Mortality in this County under pretence of cleaning Shoes, and
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with the money they get Hereby frequently Game using at their
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Games most bitter Oaths and execrations and that they humbly
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conceived them
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to be Vagrants, and for the most part Theives
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or their Spies and thereby very dangerous and prejudiciall to his
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Maties Subjects, and a nusance lately to increase, of not timely
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prevented, and that they hoped this Court would make an Order
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