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The Presentment of the Grand Jury for the
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at Justis Hall in the
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in the fifth Year
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of our Soveraign Lady Anne Queen of England, Scotland
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France and Ireland.
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Wee the Grand Jury for the
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take leave to Represent to this Honble. Court. that in attend-
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ding the Busyness of this Sessions, Wee do find to our Great Satisfaction, none of those Young
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Criminals which were formerly used to be brought before Us. and that our Attendance here hath been
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so very Short.
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Wee are very Sensible, that this is in a great Measure, if not intirely Owing to the Workhouse
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Erected in this City. which hath received therein, All those poor, and Vagrant Children, which lay up
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and down is the Streets of this City (Commonly called by the Name of the Black Guard) and
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there hath Educated Imployed, and fitted
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for Trades and other Imployment, As Then being
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formerly traind up to Wickedness and Vice, and after haveing been frequently before this Court, and often
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pardoned upon Account of their Tender Years, have at Last (takeing no Warning) made their Exit
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at the Gallows
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Wee do therefore return Our Hearty Thanks to this Honble. Court, and the Rest of ye Governours of
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that House, for their Great Pains herein, and also for their Indeavours to clear the Streets of Beggars
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and other Idle and Disorderly persons, and for as much as Wee are very Sensible that this Matter
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cannot be thoroughly Effected, within the Libertys of the
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, without the Joint Concurrence of the
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Several Parishes within the Weekly Bills of Mortality adjoyning thereto:
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Wee desire this Honble. Court that They would please earnestly to Recommend and to Engage the
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for the
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to Joyn with the Governours for the poor of
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in this Honble. Undertakeing. They the said Justices haveing all the Same powers and Authority unto them
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Granted, as the Present Corporation for the Poor of the
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now have, in and by One Act of
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Parliament made Annis 13.et 14. Carole
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2di. Regis Intituled an Act for the better Releif of the
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Poor of this Kingdom.
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Thus Beggary and vice will decay, and Industry and Virtue Florish, That Great Scandal and
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Dishonour to this City and Nation will be removed, And All the useless and Idle hands being wholy Imployed,
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Honest Man may sit down Safe and Contented with the Happy Injoyment of what They possess without
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any fear of Rapin, and Theft, or other Molestation. And this Good Work being once happyly
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begun and finished in this City, Wee Cannot doubt, but the Whole Nation will Soon follow
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Your Glorious Example.
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