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<p n="2455"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo2024">Middlesex</rs>
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At the General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holds<lb></lb>
in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo2025">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at the Session<lb></lb>
House for the said County (by adjournment) or<lb></lb>
Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55607_date60">Sixteenth day of January</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Twenty third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc.</p>
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ape of 31 prisoners<lb></lb>
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The Order of the Day being called for and Read Vizt. To<lb></lb>
enquire into the circumstances of the late Escape of 31 Prisoners out of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo2026">House of Correction</rs>
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<p n="2457">The following Petition was presented and read Vizt.</p>
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tion of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n2458-1">James Crozier</rs>
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rnor of the House of<lb></lb>
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echon at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo2028">Clerkenwell</rs>
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ying to resign his<lb></lb>
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To His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ1009">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo2029">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Quarter Session holden in January 1783<lb></lb>
Assembled.</p>
<p n="2459">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n2459-1">James Crozier</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ1010">Governour</rs>
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<p n="2460">Sheweth</p>
<p n="2461">That in the Month of July 1781 Year Petitioner was<lb></lb>
through your Worships favour appointed <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ1011">Governour</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo2032">House of Correction</rs>
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, soon after which time Your Petitioner was afflicted with a very<lb></lb>
violent nervous disorder which frequently rendered him incapable of<lb></lb>
attending to the Duties of the Office</p>
<p n="2462">On this Account Your Petitioner was obliged to repave a<lb></lb>
great deal of confidence in his Servants and to rely often upon their integrity<lb></lb>
and care alone. In a situation like his any dependance upon another must<lb></lb>
be attended wish resque and danger; the truth of which he has unfortunate<lb></lb>
and fatally experienced fatal and unfortunate as the experience hath</p>
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