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The London Gazette.
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Publishes by Authority.
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From Saturday
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Tuesday March 10, 1723
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AT the Court at St. James's, the
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9th Day of
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PRESENT,
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The King's most Excellent Majesty in His Privy
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Council.
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WHEREAS by an Act made in the
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last Session of Parliament, Entituled, An
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Act for the more effectual punishing wicked and
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will disposed
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and doing Injuries and Violencies to the Persons
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and Properties of His Majesty's Subjects, and for
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the more speedy bringing
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is to Justice:
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it is (among other Things) Enacted, That if any
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Person or Persons, from and after the 1st Day of
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June, in the Year of our Lord 1723, being armed
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with Swords, Fire Arms or other offensive Weapons,
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and having his or their Faces blacked, or being
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otherwise disguised, should appear in any Forrest,
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any Wall, Pale, or other Fences, wherein any
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been or should be usually kept, or in any High
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unlawfully and willfully hunt, would, kill, de-
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stroy, or Steal any Red or Fallow Deer. or unlaw-
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fully rob any Warren or Place where Conies or
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steal or take away any Fish out of any River or
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Pond; or if any Person or Persons from and after
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the said 1st Day of June, should unlawfully and
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wound any Cattle, or cut down or otherwise
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destroy any Trees planted in any Avenue, or
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growing in any Garden, Orchard, or Plantation
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shoo
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to Joyn him or them in any such unlawful
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lawfully convicted, should be adjudged Guilty
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of Felony, and should suffer Death as in
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Cases or Felony, without Benefit of Clergy.
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Enacted. That for the more easy and speedy
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bringing the Offenders against the said Act to
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Justice, if any Person or Persons should be char-
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by Information of one or more Credible Person
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forthwith certify under their Hands and Seals,
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and return such Information to one of the princi-
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[Price Three Half Pence.]
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pal Secretaries of State of His Majesty, His Heirs
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or Successors, who is by the said Act required to
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lay the same as soon as conveniently might be be-
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this Day lay before His Majesty in His Privy-
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, certified and by them re-
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turned to the
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Right Honourable
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Robert Walpole
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,
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Esq;
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being at the Time of making such Certifi-
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cate and Return one of
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His Majesty's Principal
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Secretaries of State
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, and is in the Words and Fi-
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gures following.
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Middx.
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