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WHEREAS the Sheriff of the
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hath produced and shewn to us, two of his Majesty's Justices of he Peace for the
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said County, and residing within the said Hundred of Ossulston in the said County, a certain Writ of Execution issuing out of the
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, at the Suit of
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David Wilmot
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, Esquire, tested the Fourth Day of July last; whereby the said Sheriff is com-
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manded, that of the Goods and Chattels of the Men inhabiting in the Hundred of Ossulston, in his the said Sheriff's County, he cause to be
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made One Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty-five Pounds Seventeen Shillings, which to
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David Wilmot
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, Esquire, in the Court of Common
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, were lately adjudged for the Damages sustained by the said David, by Reason of the unlawful, riotous,
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and tumultuous Assembling of divers Persons, to the Number of Twelve and more, at the Parish of
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, in his the said
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Sheriff's County, and in the said Hundred of Ossulston, and there unlawfully and with Force demolishing and pulling down wholly a Dwelling-
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House of the said David, situate and being in the said Parish of
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, aforesaid, in his the said Sheriff's County, and in
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the said Hundred of Ossulston; and by Reason of the unlawful, riotous, and tumultuous Assembling of divers other Persons, to the Number of
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, aforesaid, in his the said Sheriff's County, and in the said Hundred of Ossulston,
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and there unlawfully and with Force demolishing and pulling down Part of another Dwelling-House of the said David, situate and being in
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the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, aforesaid, in his the said Sheriff's County, within the said Hundred of Ossulston; and by Reason of the
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unlawful, riotous, and tumultuous Assembling of divers other Persons, to the Number of Twelve and more, at the Parish of
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, in his the said Sheriff's County, in the said Hundred of Ossulston, and there unlawfully and with Force demolishing and pulling
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down wholly another Dwelling-House of the said David, situate and being in the Parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal-Green, aforesaid, in his
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the said Sheriff's County, and in the said Hundred of Ossulston; and by Reason of the unlawful, riotous, and tumultuous Assembling of divers
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other Persons, to the Number of Twelve and more, at the said Parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal-Green, in his the said Sheriff's County, and
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in the said Hundred of Ossulston, and there unlawfully and with Force demolishing and pulling down Part of another Dwelling-House of the said
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David, situate and
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in the Parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal-Green, aforesaid, in his the said Sheriff's County, and in the said Hundred of
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Ossulston; and by Reason of unlawful, riotous, and tumultuous Assembling of divers other Persons, to the Number of Twelve and more, at
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the said Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, in his the said Sheriff's County, and in the said Hundred of Ossulston, and there unlawfully and with
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Force demolishing and pulling down Part of another Dwelling-House of the said David, situate and being in the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch,
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aforesaid, in his the said Sheriff's County, within the said Hundred of Ossulston, together with divers Goods and Chattels of the said David
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there being in his said last mentioned Dwelling-House, and wherewith the same was furnished; and by Reason of the unlawful, riotous, and
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tumdltuous Assembling of divers other Persons, to the Number to Twelve and more, at the Parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal-Green, aforesaid,
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in his the said Sheriff's County, and in the said Hundred of Ossulston, and there unlawfully and with Force demolishing and pulling down
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Part of another Dwelling-House of the said David, situate and being in the Parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal-Green, aforesaid, in his the said
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Sheriff's County, and within the said Hundred of Ossulston, together with divers Goods and Chattels of the said David there being in his said
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last mentioned Dwelling-House, and wherewith the same was furnished, whereof
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, Esquire, and
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, Esquire, two of the
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Inhabitants of the Hundred of Ossulston aforesaid, in his the said Sheriff's County, were convicted. AND WHEREAS due Proof, upon Oath,
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hath been made to us, that the Costs and Charges which the said
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have been put to in defending the said Suit,
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as Inhabitants of the said Hundred, amount to Thirty-five Pounds Six Shillings and Six-pence, and the same have been taxed by the proper
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Officers of the said Court at the said Sum of Thirty-five Pounds Six Shillings and Six-pence. AND WHEREAS we have, pursuant to the
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Statutes in that Case made and provided, assessed and taxed rateably and proportionably all and every the Towns, Parishes, Villages, and Hamlets
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in the said Hundred and Liberties thereof, to and towards as equal Contribution for the Relief of the said
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the said Execution and for Payment thereof, and also for Payment of the Costs of the said
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as aforesaid, and have
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assessed and taxed the said Parish ofat the Sum of
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THESE are therefore to require and command you the said Constable forthwith to levy
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and collect, within your said Parish, the Sum ofand rateably
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and proportionably to tax and assess, according to their Abilities, every Inhabitant and Dweller within the said Parish for and towards the Pay-
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ment thereof. AND we do herby require and co
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nd you, within ten Days after such Collection, to pay and deliver unto the Sheriff of
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the said County the said Sum ofto be you to be levied and
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collected for paying and satisfying the Execution and Costs aforesaid. GIVEN under of Hands and Seals this
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Day ofin the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty
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