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<p n="945">to will and require you the Said Keeper to receive into your Custody the<lb></lb>
Body of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-1">George Cossans</rs>
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and him safely to Keep until he shall from<lb></lb>
thence be discharged by due Course of Law Given under my hand and<lb></lb>
Seal this Eighteenth day of March One thousand Seven hundred and eighty<lb></lb>
five <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-89">Sampn. Wright</rs>
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At which same Session of the Delivery of<lb></lb>
the Said Gaol of Newgate aforesaid holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo724">County of Middlesex</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
at Justice Hall aforesaid on the said Wednesday the Sixth day of the said<lb></lb>
Month of April before the Said Justices a four Said Lord the King and others<lb></lb>
their fellows aforesaid cometh <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-2">Richard Pepper Arden</rs>
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of our said present Sovereign Lord the King and in the Presence<lb></lb>
and hearing of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-3">George Cossans</rs>
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for our Said present Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King Saith that Since the twenty fourth day of July which was in the<lb></lb>
Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and forty six (to wit) upon the<lb></lb>
Eighteenth day of January in the twenty third Year of the Reign of our said<lb></lb>
present Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain<lb></lb>
France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo725">Parish<lb></lb>
of Ringwood</rs>
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in the Said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo726">County of Southampton</rs>
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it was in due manuel<lb></lb>
charged before <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-4">Henry Compton</rs>
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then one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ284">Justices</rs>
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of our<lb></lb>
Said Lord the King Assigned to keep the Peace of our Said Lord the King<lb></lb>
within the Said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo727">County of Southampton</rs>
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And also to hear and determine<lb></lb>
divers felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanors committed within the Same<lb></lb>
County by the Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-5">Ambrose Reddall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-6">John<lb></lb>
Smart</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-9">Robert Stephens</rs>
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six credible<lb></lb>
Persons upon Oath by them then and there duly taken before the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-10">Henry<lb></lb>
Compton</rs>
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which Information was then and there by the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-11">Ambrose Reddall</rs>
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John Critchell, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-12">John Smart</rs>
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and each of them subscribed That he the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-16">George Cossans</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Said Information called a person Known by the Name of George otherwise<lb></lb>
Teapot Labourer and several other Persons to the Number of three and more<lb></lb>
in the Same Information Particularly named being armed with offensive<lb></lb>
Weapons namely large Bludgeous and Clubs Since the said twenty fourth<lb></lb>
day of July which was in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred<lb></lb>
and forty six (to wit) on the Ninth day of January in the twenty third Year<lb></lb>
aforesaid were assembled together at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo728">Burley </rs>
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in the Said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo729">Parish of Ringwood</rs>
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in the Said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo730">County of Southampton</rs>
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in Order to rescue and be aiding and<lb></lb>
assisting in rescuing and taking away uncustomed Goods after Seizure<lb></lb>
thereof And the said Attorney General of our present Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King for our Said Present Sovereign Lord the King further Saith that the<lb></lb>
Said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-17">Henry Compton</rs>
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did forthwith (to wit) upon the said Eighteenth day of<lb></lb>
January in the twenty third Year aforesaid at the Said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo731">Parish of Ringwood</rs>
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in the Said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo732">County of Southampton</rs>
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certify under his Hand and Seal and return<lb></lb>
the Said Information so made and given before him as aforesaid To <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ285">the Right<lb></lb>
Honourable</rs>
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Thomas Lord Sydney Baron Sydney of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo733">Chiselhurst</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
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then one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State<lb></lb>
who did as Soon afterwards as conveinently might be (to wit) upon the<lb></lb>
fourteenth day of February in the twenty third Year aforesaid at the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo735">Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo736">County of Middlesex</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
lay the Same Information before his Majesty in his Privy Council And that<lb></lb>
his Majesty afterwards (to wit) on the Same Day and Year at the Parish last<lb></lb>
mentioned did thereupon make his Order in his Privy Council thereby<lb></lb>
requiring and commanding the <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n945-19">George Cossans</rs>
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therein called a Person<lb></lb>
Known by the Name of George otherwise Teapot Labourer amongst<lb></lb>
others in the Said Order particularly named to surrender himself within<lb></lb>
the Space of forty days after the first Publication of the said Order in the<lb></lb>
London Gazotte to the Lord Chief Justice on one others of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices of the Court of Kings Bench or to one of his Majestys Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace which Said Order the then Clerks of has Majesty's Privy</p>
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