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<p n="2075">After Our very hearty Commendations to your Grace</p>
<p n="2076"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Copy of Letter from the<lb></lb>
Lords of the Kings privy<lb></lb>
Council directed to His<lb></lb>
Grace The Duke of<lb></lb>
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Rotnlornm of the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo2678">Middx</rs>
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& City & Libty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo2679">Westminster</rs>
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In His Grace's absence<lb></lb>
to the Justices of the<lb></lb>
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Whereas by an Act of parliament made in the Ninth Year of his<lb></lb>
Majestys Reign. Intituled An Act for laying a Duty upon the Retailers<lb></lb>
of Spirituous Liquors & for Licenceing the Retailers thereof All persons are<lb></lb>
prohibited to Sell any Spirituous Liquors or Strong Waters about the Streets<lb></lb>
Highways or the Fields in any Wheelbarrow or Baskett or on the Water or<lb></lb>
any Stall Bulk or Shed under the penalty of Ten pounds for each Offense<lb></lb>
And power is thereby given to one or more Justices of the peace to Convict such<lb></lb>
Offender in the manner therein menconed and on Neglect to pay it to Commit<lb></lb>
him or her to the House of Correction for two Months. And whereas by<lb></lb>
another Act made in the present Session of parliament, Intituled An<lb></lb>
Act for repealing certain Dutys on Spirituous Liquors and on Licences<lb></lb>
for Retailing the same And for laying other Dutys on Spirituous Liquors<lb></lb>
And on Licences to Retail the said Liquors, All persons are prohibited to<lb></lb>
Sell by retail Spirituous Liquors and strong Waters unless they shall<lb></lb>
be Licensed thereto in the manner therein directed under the penalty of<lb></lb>
Ten pounds for every offence to be paid on Conviction before one or more<lb></lb>
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, and on honpayment of being Committed to the<lb></lb>
House of Correction for two Months And Whereas it is thereby provided<lb></lb>
and enacted that no Licence shall be Granted to any but to such persons<lb></lb>
as beep Taverns, Victualling houses, Inns, Coffee houses, or Ale Houses<lb></lb>
nor shall any such be enabled to Sell by Retail, Spirituous Liquors<lb></lb>
or Strong Waters unless they shall first have a Licence also to Sell<lb></lb>
Ale or Spirituous Liquors from two or more Justices. And whereas by<lb></lb>
one Act of parliament made in the Fourth year of the Reign of King<lb></lb>
James the First. Intituled An Act for repressing the Odious and<lb></lb>
Loathsom Sin of Drunkenness And by one other Act in the Twenty<lb></lb>
First Year of his Reign Intituled An Act for the better repressing<lb></lb>
of Drunkenness and restraining the inordinate haunting of Inns,<lb></lb>
Ale Houses and other Victualling Houses, And by other Acts<lb></lb>
Divers penaltys are Inflicted on persons Guilty of the Crime of Drunkenness<lb></lb>
or who Sit Tippling in Ale Houses contrary to Law And power is<lb></lb>
thereby given to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ2833">Justices of the peace</rs>
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to Carry the said Laws into<lb></lb>
Execution And whereas it has been represented to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n2076-1">his Majesty</rs>
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that<lb></lb>
Notwithstanding the said Act of the Ninth of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n2076-2">his Majesty</rs>
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, And the<lb></lb>
said Acts made against Drunkenness and Tippling, the practice of<lb></lb>
Excessive drinking Spirituous Liquors has not been prevented, and<lb></lb>
divers disorderly and Irregular persons have taken upon themselves<lb></lb>
to sell the same by Retail contrary to the said Act of the Ninth of his<lb></lb>
Majesty and do still continue the same <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n2076-3">His Majesty</rs>
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taking the<lb></lb>
same into</p>
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