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<p n="85">The Presentment of the Grand Jury for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15017_geo88">City of London</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15017_date18">5th. of May 1706</rs>
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at Justis Hall in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15017_geo89">Old Bailey</rs>
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in the fifth Year<lb></lb>
of our Soveraign Lady Anne Queen of England, Scotland<lb></lb>
France and Ireland.</p>
<p n="86">Wee the Grand Jury for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15017_geo90">City of London</rs>
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take leave to Represent to this Honble. Court. that in attend-<lb></lb>
ding the Busyness of this Sessions, Wee do find to our Great Satisfaction, none of those Young<lb></lb>
Criminals which were formerly used to be brought before Us. and that our Attendance here hath been<lb></lb>
so very Short.</p>
<p n="87">Wee are very Sensible, that this is in a great Measure, if not intirely Owing to the Workhouse<lb></lb>
Erected in this City. which hath received therein, All those poor, and Vagrant Children, which lay up<lb></lb>
and down is the Streets of this City (Commonly called by the Name of the Black Guard) and<lb></lb>
there hath Educated Imployed, and fitted<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
for Trades and other Imployment, As Then being<lb></lb>
formerly traind up to Wickedness and Vice, and after haveing been frequently before this Court, and often<lb></lb>
pardoned upon Account of their Tender Years, have at Last (takeing no Warning) made their Exit<lb></lb>
at the Gallows</p>
<p n="88">Wee do therefore return Our Hearty Thanks to this Honble. Court, and the Rest of ye Governours of<lb></lb>
that House, for their Great Pains herein, and also for their Indeavours to clear the Streets of Beggars<lb></lb>
and other Idle and Disorderly persons, and for as much as Wee are very Sensible that this Matter<lb></lb>
cannot be thoroughly Effected, within the Libertys of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15017_geo91">City of London</rs>
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, without the Joint Concurrence of the<lb></lb>
Several Parishes within the Weekly Bills of Mortality adjoyning thereto:</p>
<p n="89">Wee desire this Honble. Court that They would please earnestly to Recommend and to Engage the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15017_occ35">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15017_geo92">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Joyn with the Governours for the poor of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15017_geo93">London</rs>
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in this Honble. Undertakeing. They the said Justices haveing all the Same powers and Authority unto them<lb></lb>
Granted, as the Present Corporation for the Poor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15017_geo94">City of London</rs>
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now have, in and by One Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament made Annis 13.et 14. Carole<obscured></obscured>
2di. Regis Intituled an Act for the better Releif of the<lb></lb>
Poor of this Kingdom.</p>
<p n="90">Thus Beggary and vice will decay, and Industry and Virtue Florish, That Great Scandal and<lb></lb>
Dishonour to this City and Nation will be removed, And All the useless and Idle hands being wholy Imployed,<lb></lb>
Honest Man may sit down Safe and Contented with the Happy Injoyment of what They possess without<lb></lb>
any fear of Rapin, and Theft, or other Molestation. And this Good Work being once happyly<lb></lb>
begun and finished in this City, Wee Cannot doubt, but the Whole Nation will Soon follow<lb></lb>
Your Glorious Example.</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15017_n91-2">Antho: Kingsley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15017_n92-2">Cuthbert Bland</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15017_n92-84">Martin Baynes</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15017_n92-5">John Stone</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15017_n93-2">Samuel Hiller</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15017_n93-4">Matthew Woodward</rs>
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