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of the Citty of London & to the Judges and
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the Fifth day of December One thousand seven hundred and Foure
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The Presentmt. of the Grand Jury for the Citty of London
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Whereas the Bench of Justice of the Peace for the Citty and Liberty of Westmr. did the last Sessions upon the Complaint of the
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grand Jury for the said Citty and Liberty represent to this Honoble. bench how ineffectuall the severall Laws now in force against
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Felons that comitt Burglary house breaking or Robbery in shopp Wardhoused Coach houses or Stables or that Steal Horsed
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had proved for want of due Execucon And that for the reasons following:
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1st
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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
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meanes many of them had been burnt Five or Six times over.
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2dly
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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
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to produce ye Record of their former Conviccon, an inconvencency ariseing from which, was, that they were frequently admitted to be
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Wittnessed for the most notorious Criminall.
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That this sort of Criminally for ye most part being Women when convicted they pleaded their Bellies and Planted
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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
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being called downe to their former Judgment.
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4thy
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For that Convicts Ordered for Transportacon being often allowd Six Months for that purpose, did usually give
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some ordinary Security for it, and then go at large comitting the like Crimes and after gett themselves into a generall
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Pardon.
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And recomended the same to this Honoble, Bench as Greivansed to be redrest and provided against, as should be
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thought most proper and expedient.
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Now wee the Grand Jury for the Citty of London upon the like Complaint Exhibitted to us by many Eininent Trades
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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
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inconvenienty recomended to the Bench the last Sessions that two of the most notorious Shoppliffs that were Convicted the
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last Session have been taken Since in ye very act of Shopplifting in the late Dwelling House of
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Thomas Abney
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& thos. they
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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
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in that Case wch. requires that such Convicts should wch. the usuall markes that other Offenders were burnt in the Hand be burnt
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in the most disables part of the Left Cheek neare the Nose was amongst other things very forcebly comanded from the Bench
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by the Right Honoble. the Lord Chiefe Justice Holt that the proper Officers see Justice done accordingly.
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And we farther Present to this Honble, Court that after Shopp lifters and House breakers are Comitted to Newgate
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they are frequently Bayled out by Persons whose places of abode are unknowne or are in sufficient to answer the penalty of
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their Recognizances by which meanes the Publick Justice of the Kingdom is defeated the prosecutor and indeed all Trad
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in generall injured and Criminalls are countenanced in their Wicked Course of life.
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