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<p n="2829"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2729">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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<p n="2830">Be it Remembered on the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date476">6th. day of Decemr. in the year of our Lord on Thousand seven<lb></lb>
hundred and eighty seven</rs>
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in the Twenty eighth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Third that<lb></lb>
Now is at t<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2730">he Violation Office</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2731">Litchfield Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2732">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-2">Bartholomew Silkes</rs>
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in his proper Person as well for his said Majesty as for himself exhibite<obscured></obscured>
to us <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ982">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-3">Robert Taylor</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ983">Knight</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-4">John Barnfather</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ984">Esquire</rs>
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twoof his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ985">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2733">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Residing near to the Place where the For feiture and Seizure herein after mentioned were made a long Stains and Information<lb></lb>
and hereby informeth us, that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-47">Ellis Anwyle</rs>
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one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ986">Officers of Excise</rs>
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within three Months last past<lb></lb>
that is to say on the Fifth day of October last past at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2734">Westend</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2735">Hampstead</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2736">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, did<lb></lb>
Seize as for feited Two Pounds and a quarter of Green Tea for that on the said fifth day of October one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-5">John Wicks</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2737">West<lb></lb>
End</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2738">Hampstead</rs>
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in the said County was and still is <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ987">a Seller of Tea</rs>
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and so being such Sellar of Tea as aforesaid<lb></lb>
he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-6">John Wicks</rs>
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had made a true and Particular entry in Writing of the several Rooms, Shops and other<lb></lb>
Places by him used, situate at West end aforesaid, And he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-7">John Wicks</rs>
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so being such Siller of Tea and having<lb></lb>
made much entry as aforesaid did on the said fifthday of October bring into such Rooms Shops and other Place of<lb></lb>
which such entry had been made as aforesaid Two pounds and a Quarter of Green Tea, without first having given<lb></lb>
Notice thereof to the Proper Officer under whose Survey, the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-8">John Wicks</rs>
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then was; and without producing to<lb></lb>
such Officer, and leaving with him as Authentic Permit or Certificate; pursuant to the Statute in that Case<lb></lb>
Made and provided and did there with Increase the Stock of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-9">John Wicks</rs>
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then and there in the Custody of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-10">John Wicks</rs>
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so being such Dealer as aforesaid Two Pounds and a Quantity Green Tea over and above the<lb></lb>
Quantity which the Officer of Excise found in his Custody as the Time of such Officers last Pruceding survey upon the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-11">John Wicks</rs>
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as being such Dealer as aforesaid, And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-64">Ellis Anwyb</rs>
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being such <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ988">Officer</rs>
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on the said fifth<lb></lb>
day of October, aforesaid did discover and find the said Increases so made as aforesaid, over and above the Quantity<lb></lb>
of Green sea which was found in the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-12">John Wicks</rs>
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Custody at the Time, of the last preceding survey upon<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-13">John Wicks</rs>
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, as being such Dealer, wherely, and by force of the Statute in such Case made and provided<lb></lb>
so much of the said Stock as was found so Increased became forfieted; where upon by Virtue of the said Statute<lb></lb>
the said Ellis Anwyb so being such Officers as aforesaid did then and there seize as forfeited the said first mentioned<lb></lb>
Two Pounds and a Quanter of Green Tea from and out of the Stock then and there in the Possession of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-14">John Wicks</rs>
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being a Quantity equal to the Quantity so Increased as aforesaid, And also the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-15">John Wicks</rs>
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<lb></lb>
being the person in whose Rock such Increase was discovered and forced as aforesaid, hath by force of the said<lb></lb>
Statute for field the sum of Twenty Pounds of lawful<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Money of Great Britain And there upon the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-41">Bartholomew<lb></lb>
Sikes</rs>
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who is as well for his said Majesty as for himself humbly prays the Judgment of us the said<lb></lb>
Justice in the Permises and that he may have one Moiely of the said Frofecture and Seizure and<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2830-16">John Wicks</rs>
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may be Summoned to Answer this Complaint and to make Defence<lb></lb>
there to before us the said Justices</p>
<p n="2831">Exhibited and Taken<lb></lb>
the Day and Year first<lb></lb>
above written before us}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2831-1">Bartholomew Sikes</rs>
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</p>
<p n="2832"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2832-47">Rt. Taylor</rs>
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J Barnfather</p>
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