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<p n="839">P adjorn Sabh decimequarto die Octobris 1721.</p>
<p n="840"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for prventing<lb></lb>
& removeing publique<lb></lb>
Nusances & annoyances<lb></lb>
Etc</note>
This Court takeing into consideration the great Increase and<lb></lb>
Progress of the Plague abroad And that all proper precautions <lb></lb>
ought to be used at this time to preserve usfrom<lb></lb>
Infection Is of Opinion that in Order thereunto the Laws<lb></lb>
for preventing and removing all Publique Nusances and<lb></lb>
Annoyances within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in this<lb></lb>
County be put in Execution, and that such methods be taken<lb></lb>
for that purpose as herein after are specifyed (Vizt.)</p>
<p n="841">This Court being sensible that the suffering loose, idle <lb></lb>
common Beggars especially such as have sore Leggs or are <lb></lb>
otherwise Distempered to begg in the Streets and publique<lb></lb>
Passages may conduce to the Spreading any Infection<lb></lb>
among as Is of opinion And doth according Order that it be <lb></lb>
And It is hereby recomended and referred unto his Majtys.<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ644">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for this County at their Petty sessions<lb></lb>
or Meetings in their severall Divisions within the said <lb></lb>
Weekly Bills of Mortality to give Orders to the Constable's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ645">Headboroughs</rs>
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and Bedells of the severall Parishes Hamblets <lb></lb>
Libertys and Places in such respective Divisions to apprehend <lb></lb>
all such Vagrants and Sturdy Beggars and to carry them<lb></lb>
before the Justices so assembled to be dealt with according to <lb></lb>
the directions in the Statute made in the Twelfth Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of the late Queen Ann for Passing and punishing of <lb></lb>
Vagrants and Sturdy Beggars By which Act there is a <lb></lb>
Reward given of two shillings to every Inhabitant or other<lb></lb>
Person for every common Rogue Beggar or Vagabond which he<lb></lb>
or they shall apprehend and carry before any Justice of the <lb></lb>
Peace to be paid imediately by the Constable of the place<lb></lb>
and also a Penalty of twenty shillings on Constables for <lb></lb>
every default or neglect in apprehending or punishing such<lb></lb>
Rogues or Vagabonds which said Statute this Court is of <lb></lb>
Opinion ought to be Strictly and imediately put in Execution<lb></lb>
and the said Penalties Leavyer on all Constables in whose<lb></lb>
Districts such Comon Rogues or Beggars shall pass unapprehended</p>
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