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