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<p n="103"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo105">London</rs>
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To all and every the Constables and other<lb></lb>
Officers of the Peace for the City of London and the<lb></lb>
Liberties thereof, whom these may concern, and to the<lb></lb>
Porter of Bridewell Hospital London.</p>
<p n="104">No 95<lb></lb>
These are in His Majesty's Name strictly to charge and<lb></lb>
command you and every of you the said Constables forthwith safely<lb></lb>
to convey and deliver into the Custody of the said Porter, the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n104-2">Evan Edwards</rs>
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, being charged before us two of His Majesty's Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace in and for the said City and Liberties, by the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n104-1">George<lb></lb>
Lawton</rs>
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, with being a Rogue and Vagabond, for having, after the Passing<lb></lb>
of a certain Act of Parliament, intitled "An Act to render more effectual<lb></lb>
"the Laws now in being for suppressing unlawful Lotteries, "to wit, on<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15100_date36">twenty first day of February in the Year of our Lord one Thousand<lb></lb>
seven Hundred and eighty eight</rs>
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at No 60 in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo106">Woodstreet</rs>
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in the said City<lb></lb>
taken and received of and from the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n104-5">George Lawton</rs>
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the Sum of<lb></lb>
eleven Peace of lawful Money of Great Britain and in Consideration<lb></lb>
thereof then and there promising and agreeing to repay the said George<lb></lb>
Lawton the Sum of one Guinea of like lawful Money if a certain Ticket<lb></lb>
Number ninety two, should be drawn fortunate or unfortunate on the<lb></lb>
eleventh day of drawing of the present English State Lottery, contrary to<lb></lb>
the Form of the Act of Parliament in such Case made and provided; and<lb></lb>
We do therefore adjudge the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n104-6">Evan Edwards</rs>
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to be a Rogue and Vagabond:<lb></lb>
Which said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n104-7">Evan Edwards</rs>
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, you the said Porter are hereby required to receive<lb></lb>
and him in your Custody safely to keep until the next General Session<lb></lb>
of the Peace to be holden at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo107">Guildhall</rs>
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, in and for the said City, to be<lb></lb>
further dealt with according to Law, And for your so doing this shall<lb></lb>
be to you and each of you a sufficient Warrant: Given under our<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15100_date37">twenty second Day of February, one Thousand<lb></lb>
seven Hundred and eighty eight</rs>
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<p n="105"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n105-1">Brass Crosby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n105-2">Samuel Swain</rs>
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