Passage to and from their Shops, and also by forestalling and
buying and Selling Goods at their Doors of divers Sorts,
and Some Persons buy and Sell from one another Several
times a day to the great Damage of the Inhabitants as other
his Majesty< no role > 's Subjects who pay great Taxes both to the Crown
and the Parish, And that the before mentioned riotous
Persons are grown to that heighth of Insolence that they
abuse and insult not only the Inhabitants & Shopkeepers
but many other honest People who come to the Said Lane
to lay out their Money with the fair Tradesman, And
that in Order to hinder and deterr the Said riotous Persons
to pursue their unlawfull Meetings and Assemblies in
the Said Lane many of the Said Inhabitants and
Shopkeepers attended the Grand Jury at Westminster
Hall last Term, and preferred Bills of Indictment,
and the Same found against near Sixty of the Said riotous
Persons for the Said unlawfull Assemblies, And that
Several of the Said Persons Indicted have Since entred
appearances in the Crown Office for their appearing the first
Day of Easter Term 1745, and a great many other Persons
whose Names cannot be discovered, make Meetings and collect Money
to aid and assist the Said Persons Indicted, and threaten
violence to those opposing them, And the Said Grand Jury
did by their Said Remomstrance Set forth that the Lord
May or of London and Court of Aldermen appoint Several
Super numerary Constables yearly, and Sworn them
accordingly with full power to Seize all Persons So
offending within the Liberty of the City in Rosemary Lane
and they are committed to Goal as Vagrants, And that if
Such power was given by the Court of Sessions of the Peace
for the County of Middx to the Peace Officers would effectually
Suppress the Said tumultuous Assemblies and abate the