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<p n="149"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London to Witt</note>
The Jurors<del>of</del>
for our Lord the King upon their Oath present that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15050_n149-1">Anthony Hodgson</rs>
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late of London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15050_occ31">Cheesemonger</rs>
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on the Twenty Eighth Day of Decr. in the 12th: Year of the reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord George the 2d: of Great Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the<lb></lb>
Faith & at divers other times between the sd. Twenty Eighth day of Det. in the 12th. Year<lb></lb>
aforesd: & the day of the taking of this Inquisition at London aforesd: in the parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15050_geo55">St. Buttolph Bishopsgate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15050_geo56">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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Unlawfully & unjustly had &<lb></lb>
kept One false Leaden Weight pretended to be a two pound weight wanting three<lb></lb>
quarters of an ounce of its just & due weight according to the Standard of the Kings.<lb></lb>
Escheqr. One other false Leaden Weight pretended to be apound weight wanting half<lb></lb>
an ounce of its last & due Weight according to the Standard of the Kings Exchequer<lb></lb>
And one other false Leaden weight pretended to be a pound weight wanting<del>hat</del>
<obscured></obscured>
quarter of An Ounce of its<lb></lb>
just and due weight according to the Standard of the Kings Exchequer.</p>
<p n="150">And the sd. Anthony Hodgson on the Sd: twenty Eighth day of Decr.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in the<lb></lb>
12th: year aforesd. & at the sd. other times between the sd. Twenty Eighth day of<lb></lb>
Decr. last past & the day of the taking of this Inquisition at London aforesd<lb></lb>
in the Parish & Ward aforesd. by the sd. Several false leaden Weights before<lb></lb>
mentioned deceiptfully & unlawfully sold & Caused to be sold divers quantities<lb></lb>
of& goods & Merchandizes to divers persons to the<lb></lb>
sd: Jurors as yet Unknown To the sd: Anthony Hodgson at the respective times when<lb></lb>
held had & next the sd: respective false weights abovementioned & sold by the same<lb></lb>
inform aforesd. Well knowing the same Weights to be false as aforesd. to the great<lb></lb>
deceipt & Damage of the sd. Persons to the Evil Example of all others in the like Case<lb></lb>
offending and agt. the Peace of our Lord the King his Crown & Dignity And also</p>
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