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<p n="412">"our Heirs & Successors or any six or more of them (whereof the Lord High Admiral of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo605">England</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
"the time being to be always one) by any Warrant or Warrants signed with the Hands of them or any<lb></lb>
"six or more of them (where of the Lord High Admiral of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo606">England</rs>
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for the time being to be one) shall<lb></lb>
"at any time or times Will & Command the said Master Wardens & Assistants to person execute or<lb></lb>
"do any Land Service or to be contributary to the Charge of any Armour Munition or any other Thing<lb></lb>
"appertaining to such Land Service that then & so often the sd. Master Wardens & Assistants & their<lb></lb>
"Successors shall upon & after the Receipt of any such Warrant perform & execute all & every such thing<lb></lb>
"as shall be commanded & adjoyned unto them or any of them in & by the same any thing before in<lb></lb>
"these Presents to the contrary thereof notwithstanding."</p>
<p n="413"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Afft. of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n413-1">David Court</rs>
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the Corporatns. 2d. Clk<lb></lb>
Sworn in Court<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15095_date98">22 Oct 1784</rs>
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}</note>
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Saith that said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n413-3">Wm. Davis</rs>
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was on or about 11th. May 1781 duly elected & chosen an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ400">Elder<lb></lb>
Brother</rs>
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of sd. Corporation & that he hath ever since been & now is such <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ401">Elder Brother</rs>
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And saith he<lb></lb>
hath been informed & beds. that by virtue of a Clause or Clauses in a certain Charter of Confirmation<lb></lb>
granted to sd. Corporation & by virtue of such choice as afsd. said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n413-2">Wm. Davis</rs>
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is exempted from serving<lb></lb>
of Juries Inquests & Inquisitions otherwise then at Session of Admirally.</p>
<p n="414">It is not in the Knowledge of the Members or Clerks of the Corporation that any Five was<lb></lb>
ever levied or even, untill this instance, set on any Elder Brother of the Corporation</p>
<p n="415">In the Summer Assizes 1771 at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo607">Bristol</rs>
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two Younger Brethren of the Corporation Vizt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n415-1">Thos. Jones</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n415-2">Wm. Lewis</rs>
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both of that City not then using the Sea were Fined 40s. each for<lb></lb>
refusing to be Sworn as Jurymen on the Nise Prices Side And these Fines being estreated into<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo608">the Court of Exchequer</rs>
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the Parties applied to that Court to have said Fines discharged wch.<lb></lb>
that Court ordered accordingly.</p>
<p n="416">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n416-1">David Court</rs>
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who was then second <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ402">Clerk</rs>
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to the Corporation then a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ403">House<lb></lb>
keeper</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo609">St. Paul Covent Garden</rs>
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was in Decr. Session 1775 all the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo610">Old Bailey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Fined for not appearing to serve as a Juryman & upon application to the Court at the Session<lb></lb>
on 16th Octr. 1776 the Court discharged the Fine.</p>
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