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thence be discharged by due Course of Law Given under my hand and
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Seal this Eighteenth day of March One thousand Seven hundred and eighty
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the King Saith that Since the twenty fourth day of July which was in the
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Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and forty six (to wit) upon the
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the Said Information called a person Known by the Name of George otherwise
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day of July which was in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
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and forty six (to wit) on the Ninth day of January in the twenty third Year
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aforesaid were assembled together at
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in Order to rescue and be aiding and
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assisting in rescuing and taking away uncustomed Goods after Seizure
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thereof And the said Attorney General of our present Sovereign Lord the
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King for our Said Present Sovereign Lord the King further Saith that the
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did forthwith (to wit) upon the said Eighteenth day of
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January in the twenty third Year aforesaid at the Said
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in the Said
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certify under his Hand and Seal and return
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the Said Information so made and given before him as aforesaid To
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Thomas Lord Sydney Baron Sydney of
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Chiselhurst
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then one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
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who did as Soon afterwards as conveinently might be (to wit) upon the
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fourteenth day of February in the twenty third Year aforesaid at the
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in the
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aforesaid
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lay the Same Information before his Majesty in his Privy Council And that
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his Majesty afterwards (to wit) on the Same Day and Year at the Parish last
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mentioned did thereupon make his Order in his Privy Council thereby
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requiring and commanding the
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George Cossans
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therein called a Person
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Known by the Name of George otherwise Teapot Labourer amongst
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others in the Said Order particularly named to surrender himself within
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the Space of forty days after the first Publication of the said Order in the
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London Gazotte to the Lord Chief Justice on one others of his Majesty's
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of the Peace which Said Order the then Clerks of has Majesty's Privy
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