"and is likewise one great cause of the frequency of Street
"robberys and other felonys, and that it did not appeare
"to the Committee that the Laws now in being are
effectual or Sufficient to prevent or remedy Such
mischeif,

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The Committee likewise as well from the notoriety of the
fact as from their observations upon the returns before
menconed came to the following Resolucon (vizt.)
"That It appeared to the Committee that the extravagant
"Multitude of Geneva Shops within the Bills of Mortality &
"parts adjacent is one great cause of the increase of Street
"Robbers and other Felons,

And the Committee upon observeing in Some of the Said
Returns the State of the Nightly Watch kept in the Severall
Divisions particularly in the parish of St. Andrew Holborn
as it Stands now divided from the new parish of St. George
the Martyr and the Liberty of Saffron hill Hatton Garden
and Ely Rents (which therefore may Serve to Shew how
it is maintained in other parts) Saw therein with the
utmost concern one great rise of the present complaints,
and the Committee prayed leave for a Specimen to
lay before us a Short State of the matter in the said parish
as it was reported by the Justices acting therein to Stand
on the 30th. of October last

The watch there is (vizt.)

For the parish of St. Andrew HolborneBut 17:
Watchmen of which two are Beadles
and 2 more always attend the
Constable at the Watch house, These
have but £9. P Ann each and come
but at 11 and go off at 5 in the morning

And the Committee could not but agree with the Justices of
that Division in their opinion formed upon inspecting
the respective books of colleccons for the payment of the