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To the Right Honoble: St. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15015_n59-1">Owen Buckingham</rs>
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of the Citty of London & to the Judges and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15015_occ36">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
Sessions of Oyer and Terminer held at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15015_geo69">Justice Hall</rs>
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the Fifth day of December One thousand seven hundred and Foure</p>
<p n="60">The Presentmt. of the Grand Jury for the Citty of London</p>
<p n="61">Whereas the Bench of Justice of the Peace for the Citty and Liberty of Westmr. did the last Sessions upon the Complaint of the<lb></lb>
grand Jury for the said Citty and Liberty represent to this Honoble. bench how ineffectuall the severall Laws now in force against<lb></lb>
Felons that comitt Burglary house breaking or Robbery in shopp Wardhoused Coach houses or Stables or that Steal Horsed<lb></lb>
had proved for want of due Execucon And that for the reasons following:</p>
<p n="62"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1st</note>
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For that the mark or burn in ye Cheek was to small and Executed so imperfectly as to be scarcely visible, and by that<lb></lb>
meanes many of them had been burnt Five or Six times over.</p>
<p n="63"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">2dly</note>
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That such Felons being never tryed a different time by the same name It made it a matter of great difficulty for a Prosecuted<lb></lb>
to produce ye Record of their former Conviccon, an inconvencency ariseing from which, was, that they were frequently admitted to be<lb></lb>
Wittnessed for the most notorious Criminall.</p>
<p n="64"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">3dly</note>
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That this sort of Criminally for ye most part being Women when convicted they pleaded their Bellies and Planted<lb></lb>
Women of their own Gang to be on their Jury, who finding them quick wth. Child they did by that means game time to escape weak<lb></lb>
being called downe to their former Judgment.</p>
<p n="65"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">4thy</note>
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For that Convicts Ordered for Transportacon being often allowd Six Months for that purpose, did usually give<lb></lb>
some ordinary Security for it, and then go at large comitting the like Crimes and after gett themselves into a generall<lb></lb>
Pardon.</p>
<p n="66">And recomended the same to this Honoble, Bench as Greivansed to be redrest and provided against, as should be<lb></lb>
thought most proper and expedient.</p>
<p n="67">Now wee the Grand Jury for the Citty of London upon the like Complaint Exhibitted to us by many Eininent Trades<lb></lb>
men wch. in the sd. Citty do take the like liberty to represent to this honoble. Court, that so little care has been taken to remedy the<lb></lb>
inconvenienty recomended to the Bench the last Sessions that two of the most notorious Shoppliffs that were Convicted the<lb></lb>
last Session have been taken Since in ye very act of Shopplifting in the late Dwelling House of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15015_occ37">Sr</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15015_n67-1">Thomas Abney</rs>
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& thos. they<lb></lb>
were upon their last Conviccon burnt in the Cheek the mark is not now to be discerned, and yet the due Execucon of the Law<lb></lb>
in that Case wch. requires that such Convicts should wch. the usuall markes that other Offenders were burnt in the Hand be burnt<lb></lb>
in the most disables part of the Left Cheek neare the Nose was amongst other things very forcebly comanded from the Bench<lb></lb>
by the Right Honoble. the Lord Chiefe Justice Holt that the proper Officers see Justice done accordingly.</p>
<p n="68">And we farther Present to this Honble, Court that after Shopp lifters and House breakers are Comitted to Newgate<lb></lb>
they are frequently Bayled out by Persons whose places of abode are unknowne or are in sufficient to answer the penalty of<lb></lb>
their Recognizances by which meanes the Publick Justice of the Kingdom is defeated the prosecutor and indeed all Trad<lb></lb>
in generall injured and Criminalls are countenanced in their Wicked Course of life.</p>
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<p n="70">James Rolleston<lb></lb>
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