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<p n="884"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">December 1777</note>
10th. day of November One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven<lb></lb>
NB if You do not attend this Summons the Magistrate will issue<lb></lb>
a Warrant for Contempt</p>
<p n="885"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n885-1">John Gretton</rs>
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<p n="886">and that Mr. Green not having obeyed the Summons he had been<lb></lb>
arrested by virtue of the following Warrant Vizt.</p>
<p n="887"> <lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo856">Middlesex</rs>
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City & Liberty<lb></lb>
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} to wit</note>
To all Constables and other his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ370">Officers of the peace</rs>
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for the said County City and<lb></lb>
Liberty whom these may Concern especially to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n887-1">John Matthews</rs>
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</p>
<p n="888"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n888-1">John Gretton</rs>
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LS</note>
These are in his Majestys name to Command You and every of You<lb></lb>
upon Sight hereof to take and bring before me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ371">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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for the said County City and Liberty the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n888-2">William Green</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and the Driver of his dray No.2258 of whom you shall have notice to<lb></lb>
answer to all such matters and things as on his Majestys behalf are on<lb></lb>
Oath objected against them by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n888-3">Thomas Richards</rs>
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for unlawfully riding on<lb></lb>
a Cart the property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n888-4">William Green</rs>
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on the first day of this<lb></lb>
Instant in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo858">parish of Stepney</rs>
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not having any person on foot or<lb></lb>
horseback or reins to guide the Horse and for contemptunously disobeying<lb></lb>
Majestracy in not attending a legal Summons served on them to answer<lb></lb>
the said Complaint agt the State Etc.-Hereof fail not at Your peril Given<lb></lb>
under my hand and Seal this 18th. day of November in the Year of our<lb></lb>
Lord 1777</p>
<p n="889">I Acknowledge this to be a true Copy of the Original Warrant<lb></lb>
As Witness my hand this 20th. day of November 1777</p>
<p n="890"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n890-1">John Mathews</rs>
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</p>
<p n="891">Discharged upon Bail<lb></lb>
20 Novr. 1777<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n891-1">Jno. Sherwood</rs>
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</p>
<p n="892"> <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ372">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n892-1">John Hawkin</rs>
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's the Chairman of the Session<lb></lb>
also laid before the Court the following Summons Vizt.</p>
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