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<p n="445">Passage to and from their Shops, and also by forestalling and<lb></lb>
buying and Selling Goods at their Doors of divers Sorts,<lb></lb>
and Some Persons buy and Sell from one another Several<lb></lb>
times a day to the great Damage of the Inhabitants as other<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n445-1">his Majesty</rs>
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's Subjects who pay great Taxes both to the Crown<lb></lb>
and the Parish, And that the before mentioned riotous<lb></lb>
Persons are grown to that heighth of Insolence that they<lb></lb>
abuse and insult not only the Inhabitants & <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ520">Shopkeepers</rs>
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but many other honest People who come to the Said Lane<lb></lb>
to lay out their Money with the fair Tradesman, And<lb></lb>
that in Order to hinder and deterr the Said riotous Persons<lb></lb>
to pursue their unlawfull Meetings and Assemblies in<lb></lb>
the Said Lane many of the Said Inhabitants and<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ521">Shopkeepers</rs>
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attended the Grand Jury at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo786">Westminster</rs>
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Hall last Term, and preferred Bills of Indictment,<lb></lb>
and the Same found against near Sixty of the Said riotous<lb></lb>
Persons for the Said unlawfull Assemblies, And that<lb></lb>
Several of the Said Persons Indicted have Since entred<lb></lb>
appearances in the Crown Office for their appearing the first<lb></lb>
Day of Easter Term 1745, and a great many other Persons<lb></lb>
whose Names cannot be discovered, make Meetings and collect Money<lb></lb>
to aid and assist the Said Persons Indicted, and threaten<lb></lb>
violence to those opposing them, And the Said Grand Jury<lb></lb>
did by their Said Remomstrance Set forth that the Lord<lb></lb>
May or of London and Court of Aldermen appoint Several<lb></lb>
Super numerary Constables yearly, and Sworn them<lb></lb>
accordingly with full power to Seize all Persons So<lb></lb>
offending within the Liberty of the City in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo787">Rosemary Lane</rs>
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and they are committed to Goal as Vagrants, And that if<lb></lb>
Such power was given by the Court of Sessions of the Peace<lb></lb>
for the County of Middx to the Peace Officers would effectually<lb></lb>
Suppress the Said tumultuous Assemblies and abate the</p>
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