of him the said Ralph Hodgson< no role > This name instance is in set 3684. , as also the many factious & infla-
matory advertisements and paragraphs, which were inserted in the
public news papers, about the time of the commencement of the

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said disputes, intimating that the said Ralph Hodgson had taken
the poor injured coalheavers under his protection, and was deter-
mined to procure redress of their wrongs, and to defend them
against their oppressors, did in the apprehension of us his
Majesty's said Justices afford a ground of Suspicion that the said
Ralph Hodgson was an Abettor & encourager of the said rioters
or at least that he connived at the outrages & disorders by th [..]

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from time to time comitted; but that these our suspicions [..]
now subsided, and are resolved into Conviction, by proof [..]
to us upon Oath of the following facts vizt.

That on the 17th Day of March last, being the anniver [..]
St. Patrick the tutelar Saint of Ireland , A mob of coalheaver [..]

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and others to the amount of 400 persons & upwards, each of them with a gr [..]
herb in his hat called a Shamrogge, a badge of distinction con [..]
ly worn on that day by Irishmen, assembled together, and parad [..]
thro' the high Streets & public highways of Shadwell , Ratcliff ,
and the parish of Stepney in the county aforesaid, with drums beating
and colours flying.

That the said Ralph Hodgson esquire , tho' not an irishman, [..]

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a native of england, an utter barrister of grays-inn , and one of his
majesty's justices of the peace for the county of middlesex did in his
own proper person, with one of the said Shamrogges in his hat march [..]