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Passage to and from their Shops, and also by forestalling and
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buying and Selling Goods at their Doors of divers Sorts,
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and Some Persons buy and Sell from one another Several
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times a day to the great Damage of the Inhabitants as other
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's Subjects who pay great Taxes both to the Crown
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and the Parish, And that the before mentioned riotous
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Persons are grown to that heighth of Insolence that they
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abuse and insult not only the Inhabitants &
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but many other honest People who come to the Said Lane
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to lay out their Money with the fair Tradesman, And
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that in Order to hinder and deterr the Said riotous Persons
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to pursue their unlawfull Meetings and Assemblies in
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the Said Lane many of the Said Inhabitants and
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attended the Grand Jury at
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Westminster
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Hall last Term, and preferred Bills of Indictment,
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and the Same found against near Sixty of the Said riotous
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Persons for the Said unlawfull Assemblies, And that
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Several of the Said Persons Indicted have Since entred
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appearances in the Crown Office for their appearing the first
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Day of Easter Term 1745, and a great many other Persons
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whose Names cannot be discovered, make Meetings and collect Money
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to aid and assist the Said Persons Indicted, and threaten
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violence to those opposing them, And the Said Grand Jury
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did by their Said Remomstrance Set forth that the Lord
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May or of London and Court of Aldermen appoint Several
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Super numerary Constables yearly, and Sworn them
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accordingly with full power to Seize all Persons So
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offending within the Liberty of the City in
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Rosemary Lane
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and they are committed to Goal as Vagrants, And that if
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Such power was given by the Court of Sessions of the Peace
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for the County of Middx to the Peace Officers would effectually
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Suppress the Said tumultuous Assemblies and abate the
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