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<p n="20">To the Worshipful his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65468_occ16">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65468_geo37">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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Assembled at the Michaelmas<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City and Liberty aforesaid<lb></lb>
on Wednesday the 19th: day of October 1757</p>
<p n="21">The humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65468_n21-1">John Whitehead</rs>
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and Mary<lb></lb>
Spinnage</p>
<p n="22"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That at the General Quarter Session of the Peace<lb></lb>
holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65468_geo38">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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on Wednesday<lb></lb>
the 15:19th day of October 1756 your Worships were pleased to grant<lb></lb>
License to your Petitioner <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65468_n22-1">John Whitehead</rs>
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& one <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65468_n22-2">Mary Brayfield</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65468_occ17">single</rs>
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deced to keep a certain House called or<lb></lb>
known by the Name of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65468_geo39">New Theatre</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65468_geo40">Hay market</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65468_geo41">parish of St Martin in the fields</rs>
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in the Liberty aforesaid<lb></lb>
for publick Dancing Musick or other publick Entertainment<lb></lb>
of the like Kind Which License was to Continue in force until<lb></lb>
the present Michaelmas Quarter Session of the peace<lb></lb>
held for the Liberty aforesaid</p>
<p n="23">That your Petitioners <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65468_n23-1">John Whitehead</rs>
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& the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65468_n23-2">Mary Brayfield</rs>
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did in all things performed<lb></lb>
and fulfill the Condition of the said License</p>
<p n="24">Your Petitioners <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65468_n24-1">John Whitehead</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65468_n24-2">Mary Spinnage</rs>
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therefore humbly pray<lb></lb>
that your Worships would be pleased to<lb></lb>
grant a New License to your Petitioners<lb></lb>
for the said House for the Purposes<lb></lb>
aforesaid to continue in force untill the<lb></lb>
next Michaelmas Quarter Session of the<lb></lb>
peace to be holden for this Liberty</p>
<p n="25">And Your Petitioners shall ever pray<lb></lb>
Etc.</p>
<p n="26">J Whitehead<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65468_n26-2">Mary Spinnage</rs>
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