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<p n="1829">Quantitys of Powder was kept in the Ship Chandlers Houses<lb></lb>
or Store Houses And also that there was two Storehouses in a<lb></lb>
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near the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo2285">St. John Wapping</rs>
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in which was kept<lb></lb>
a great Quantity of Gun powderThis coming to the<lb></lb>
knowledge of the Officers of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo2286">the Tower</rs>
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they came to the Place<lb></lb>
& having viewed the Same Said it was their Opinion that if<lb></lb>
by any Accident the Quantitys of Powder commonly kept<lb></lb>
there Should take Fire it would blow up all the houses<lb></lb>
within a Considerable Distance of it destroy Some thousands<lb></lb>
of people & even do great damage to his Majestys Tower<lb></lb>
of London</p>
<p n="1830">In the 5th. of George the 1st. An Act was made that after the first<lb></lb>
of August 1719 no person Should keep in his Warehouse or<lb></lb>
any part of his house more than Six hundred pounds Weight<lb></lb>
of Powder</p>
<p n="1831">And in the 11th. of George the first Another Act was made<lb></lb>
whereby it was enacted that for the publick Safety no more<lb></lb>
than two hundred pounds of powder <del>be</del>
Should be kept in any<lb></lb>
one House above twenty four Hours or pain of forfitting all<lb></lb>
such powder above the Said Quantity of two hundred pounds<lb></lb>
and the Value thereof</p>
<p n="1832">But notwithstanding this last Act (a Fire happening in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo2287">parish of St. John Wapping</rs>
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on the 5th. day of February 1741) it was<lb></lb>
discovered that Several of the Dealers in Powder removed great<lb></lb>
Quantitys this caused a Search to be made by Some of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ2539">Gentleman</rs>
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of the publick Fire Officers who Seized & carried of a<lb></lb>
great many Barrells.</p>
<p n="1833">To prevent which practice & that great Numbers of his Majties:<lb></lb>
Subjects might be preferred from immediate Death that the<lb></lb>
Firemen of the Several Publick Offices (who are extremely<lb></lb>
Seviceable at all Fires) may not be deterred form doing their<lb></lb>
Duty That other Men who live near where a Fire Should<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo2288">happen</rs>
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may be encouraged to assist at the Same.</p>
<p n="1834">And also that in Order to prevent the Importation of Quantitys<lb></lb>
of Powder from foreign Parts contrary to Law which there<lb></lb>
is great Reason to beleive is much practiced and would be<lb></lb>
prevented if none was Suffered to be landed but from the<lb></lb>
Magazines Etc</p>
<p n="1835">It is humbly hoped an Act or Clause in Some Act <del>of</del>
may be<lb></lb>
passed that no person takeing from on Board any Ship or<lb></lb>
Vessell in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo2289">River of Thames</rs>
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or from any Powder House<lb></lb>
and Shall presume to land any part whatsoever But Send<lb></lb>
the Same to the Magazine That no <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ2540">Waterman</rs>
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or other</p>
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