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<p n="188">To the Honable the<del> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50064_geo43">House of Commons</rs>
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in parliament assembled<lb></lb>
of ye Justices of the peace alld</p>
<p n="189">The humble Petition of the Grand Jury<lb></lb>
<del> <obscured></obscured>
and<obscured></obscured>
to servant a Session of</del>
also lgeble osworn at ye Goldae Sessions of ye peace<lb></lb>
<del>the Peace, and Open and Terminer hald</del>
held the seaven<lb></lb>
and twentieth Day of Febr 1698 for the County of<lb></lb>
Middx</p>
<p n="190"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most Humbly Sheweth</note>
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<p n="191">That Whereas wee are Informed That for many<lb></lb>
yeares last past for the subtile practices of some persons confederateing to gather to<lb></lb>
Ingross and Forest all the Markett of Fish greate quantities of Fish<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
have been distroyed to<lb></lb>
advance and keep up the remaining part at great prizes, which hath been prajudicial<lb></lb>
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, and adjacent Counties, and greatly<lb></lb>
misehevous to the poore And observing by the Vote of this Honable House that a<lb></lb>
Bill is brought in for makeing Billins gate a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50064_occ40">Free Markett</rs>
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whcih wee<lb></lb>
aprehend will be a meanes if passed into an Act to prevent for the Future the<lb></lb>
aforesaid Inconveniences, and make Fish much more plentifull and cheaper<lb></lb>
then formerly</p>
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<p n="193">Wee Therefore most humbly pray. This Honable<lb></lb>
House that the said bill may pass to Effect<lb></lb>
the<del>great</del>
assureing ourselves to finde geral advantages,<del>which wee are Seasible<lb></lb>
will be the consequences there of:</del>
thereby</p>
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