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<p n="164">The King<lb></lb>
a<lb></lb>
Vickery}<lb></lb>
For refusing to serve the Office of<lb></lb>
Constable in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo173">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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<p n="165">Brief for the Prosecution</p>
<p n="166"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London Indictmt. States,</note>
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That the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo174">City of London</rs>
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is an ancient City and that according to the<lb></lb>
Custom of the said City from time memorial used and approved of in<lb></lb>
in the same the Deft late of London Broker on the 21st. day of December in<lb></lb>
the 25th. Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the 3d. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo175">King of Great</rs>
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Britain Etc. and long before being an Inhabitant and Resiant within the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo176">Parish of St. Martin</rs>
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Outwick in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo177">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid and a fit & proper person to execute the office of Constable within the<lb></lb>
said Ward He the said Deft at a <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo178">Court of Wardmote</rs>
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holden for the said Ward<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo179">Bishopsgate</rs>
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at Leathersellers hall situate in the said Parish of Saint Helen<lb></lb>
in the Ward aforesaid according to the Custom of the said City and Court afsd.<lb></lb>
on the said 21st. Day of December in the Year aforesaid before <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n166-1">Richd. Clark</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ83">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ84">Mayor</rs>
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of the said City in the absence of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n166-2">James Townsend</rs>
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then & now one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ86">Aldermen</rs>
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of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo180">City of London</rs>
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and then &<lb></lb>
yet Alderman of the said Ward was lawfully and in due Manner accordg.<lb></lb>
to the Custom of the said City and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo181">Court of Wardmote</rs>
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aforesaid then & there<lb></lb>
elected & chosen to be one of the Constables in & for the same Ward<lb></lb>
for one whole Year then next ensuing by the Men inhabiting & resiant<lb></lb>
paying Scott & bearing Lott within the said Ward whereof the said Deft<lb></lb>
afterwards to wit on the same 21st. Day of December in the said Year and on<lb></lb>
divers other Days and Times after at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo182">London</rs>
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aforesaid that is to say at<lb></lb>
the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo183">Saint<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Martin Outwick</rs>
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in the Ward aforesaid<lb></lb>
had Notice Nevertheless the said Deft not regarding his Duly in this<lb></lb>
Behalf but endeavouring & intending as much as in him lay totally to hinder<lb></lb>
and retard the due Execution of Justice on the said 21st. day of December in<lb></lb>
the Year last aforesaid and continually from thence unto the Day of the taking of<lb></lb>
this Inquisition at the Parish and in the Ward last aforesaid voluntarily<lb></lb>
obstinately & contemptuously wholly refused denied and neglected and yet doth<lb></lb>
refuse and neglect to take upon him and to execute the said office of Constable<lb></lb>
contrary to his Duty In manifest contempt and Delay of Justice To the Evil<lb></lb>
Example of all other in the like Case offending and against the Peace Etc.</p>
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