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To all Church-Wardens, Overseers of the Poor,
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WE whose Names and Seals are hereunto set, Three of the
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Commissioners appointed to put in execution an Act of Par-
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liament of the Eighteenth Year of His Present Majesty's
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Reign, entitled, An Act for the more easy and better Recruiting of His
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Majesty's Land Forces and Marines, Do, by Virtue, and in Pursuance of
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the said Act, hereby strictly enjoin and require You, and each and every
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of You, upon receipt hereof, diligently to make, or cause to be made,
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a general Search within and throughout your respective Wards and
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Parishes, for all such Able Bodied, Idle and Disorderly Men, as do not
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exercise, and industriously follow some lawful Trade or Employment, or have
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some Substance sufficient for their Support: and Maintenance, and to bring
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before Us, or such other Commissioners for putting the said Act in Ex-
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ecution, as shall meet for that Purpose at the
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Guildhall
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of the said City,
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on Thursday the 16th Day of July Instant, at Ten of the Clock in the
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Forenoon; and so from Time to Time upon Monday and Thursday in
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every subsequent Week during the Continuance of the said Act, every
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such Person as You shall find, and who is or shall appear to You to be
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within the above Description, and of the Age of Seventeen Years or upwards,
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not exceeding Forty-five Years, and of the Size of Five Feet Four Inches, or
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upwards, without Shoes, and free from Ruptures and every other Distemper,
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or Bodily Weakness or Infirmity which may render him unfit to perform the
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Duty of a Soldier, to be then and there examined and disposed of accord-
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ing to the said Act of Parliament: and all Inhabitants of your respective
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Wards or Parishes were any Persons described as aforesaid do abide,
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or are to be found, are by the said Act strictly enjoined at the instance
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of You, or any of You (not having a lawful or reasonable Excuse to the
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contrary) to be aiding and assisting in the furtherance of such His Ma-
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jesty's Service. And the respective Officers who shall receive such new
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raised Men, are by the said Act directed to pay to the Clerk appointed
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by the said Commissioners for the Use of the Officers so employed in raising
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such Men, for their Pains and Services therein, Twenty Shillings for every
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Man so raised; and also for every such new raised Man who shall have
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a Wife or Family, such Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings, nor less
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than Ten Shillings, as shall be settled by the said Commissioners, for the
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Benefit of the Parish in which such new raised Man shall have gained
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a Settlement, and whose Wife or Family may become chargeable
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thereto; and also the Sum of Sixpence per Diem for keeping every such
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new raised Man who shall be delivered as aforesaid, according to the
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Number of Days he shall have been kept in Custody pursuant to the
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said Act. And every Person who shall discover and give Information
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of any able bodied Man sit to serve His Majesty within the above De-
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scription, so that he shall be apprehended and inlisted before Us or the
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said other Commissioners, is by the said Act entitled for every Man so
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discovered and inlisted to receive from the Officer to whom he shall be
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delivered the Sum of Ten Shillings, out of the said Twenty Shillings so
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directed to be paid to the Parish Officers. And the said Act directs
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that no Bailiff's Follower or Assistant, or Person employed by such as have
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the Power of executing any Warrant or Process, shall be deemed thereby
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to follow or exercise any Calling or Employment, or to have a sufficient
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Support or Maintenance within the Intent and Meaning thereof. But
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every Person under the Description of the said Act, although appre-
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hended, may (if he pleases) enlist as a Volunteer, and thereby entitle
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himself to a Bounty of Three Pounds, and a Discharge at the End of Three
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Years, if the Nation shall then be at Peace. We do therefore hereby
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strictly enjoin and require you, to Use your utmost Care and Diligence
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that His Majesty's Service in making such Levies as aforesaid may not
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be disappointed or neglected, as you will answer the contrary at your
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Peril. Given under our Hands and Seals at
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, London, the
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Second Day of July
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, in the Eighteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign.
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and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and
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Seventy eight.
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