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September 1768

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the head of the said mob so assembled and did by shouts, acclamation
and other gestures, inconsistent with the duty & character of a Majistrate

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testify his approbation of, and give countenance to their tumul-
tuous proceedings; and more particularly, that the said Ralph
Hodgson, during the said procession, marched at the head of the said
mob so collected as aforesaid, with a stick or cane in his hand,
and at the end of every four or five hundred Yards made a half, and
waived or brandished the said stick or cane over his head several

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times, which signal was from time to time duly answered by the Shouts
and huzras of the mob so assembled, and who followed at his heels
in manner aforesaid.

That the riotous and tumultuous procession aforesaid lasted
for several hours; and that after the same was over, the said Ralph
Hodgson
< no role > This name instance is in set 3684. went to a public house at stepney called spring-gardens ,
together with divers persons who had walk'd with him in the said

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procession, and Spent the remainder of the day and supped with them there

That the several facts above stated, with many others that be
speak a general in attention in the said Ralph Hodgson, to the preser-
vation of the public peace, and a shameless prostitution of the office
and character of a majistrate, were represented to us in our
general Session of the peace assembled, on the nineteenth day of May

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last, in and by a Petition of a great number of the Inhabitants of
Shadwell and the parts adjacent men of property and respectable
characters praying redress of which petition the said Ralph
Hodgson received due notice together, with a copy thereof and
end an invitation to attend us the said Justices on thursday the seventh




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