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Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc. Before
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County aforesaid; and also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misdemeanours
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committed in the same County. That Session of the Peace in adjourned, by the aforesaid Justices of
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our said Lord the King abovenamed and others their Fellow aforesaid, here until Tuesday
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the Second day of the same Month of April at the hour of Ten in the Forenoon
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of the same Day, to be holden at the Session House upon
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aforesaid, in and for the said County, on the said Tuesday the Second Day of
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April in the Year aforesaid, before the said Justices of our said Lord the King
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abovenamed, and others their Fellows aforesaid. That Session of the Peace is adjourned by the afore
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their Fellows aforesaid here until Thursday the Fourth Day of the same Month
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of April at the Hour and Place last abovesaid. And that at the same Session of the Peace
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the said Justices of our said Lord the King abovenamed, and others their Fellows aforesaid.
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Chimney Sweeper Hath at this present
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certain Conviction in Writing under the Hand and Seal of
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bearing date the Eighteenth day of
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February in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and ninety nine Convicted
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by the said
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being a person
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exercising the business of a Chimney Sweeper did in the Morning of the Sixteenth
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day of February unlawfully cause Thomas Brofey his Apprentice Boy to call the
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did
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adjudge the Petition and Appeallant to have forfeited a Sum not exceeding Two
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Pounds nor less than Five Pounds to wit the Sum of Five Pounds to be
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