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<p n="223">To the Right Honoble. Thomas Lord Parker<lb></lb>
Baron of Macclesfield Lord High<lb></lb>
Chancellor of Great Britain</p>
<p n="224"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">August. of Ld. Mayst. &<lb></lb>
Cot. of Aldmen of <lb></lb>
London to the<lb></lb>
Representacon of <lb></lb>
Justices of peace of <lb></lb>
Middx</note>
The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of <lb></lb>
London having by your Lordships Order received Informacon<lb></lb>
That your Lordship has been applyed to from several Justices of <lb></lb>
the peace of the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo160">Middx</rs>
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in Quarter Sessions assembled<lb></lb>
Complaining that some applicacon had been made to the late <lb></lb>
Lord Chancellor whereby the inserting some of their Names<lb></lb>
in the Comission of Goal Delivery of Newgate had been prevented<lb></lb>
And the they have offered several Matters to your Lordships<lb></lb>
consideration to Induce your Lordship to think it reasonable<lb></lb>
that their Expectacons may be answered in this particulars<lb></lb>
for the time to come</p>
<p n="225">The Lord Mayor and the said Court doe humbly<lb></lb>
presume it was at their Instance That the late Lord Chancellor<lb></lb>
was pleased to pass the present comission without inserting<lb></lb>
any other persons Names than those therein contained And<lb></lb>
as the Comission so passed is not only according to the <lb></lb>
antient but modern precidents (Except a very few Instances <lb></lb>
the precidents of which times are not for very just reasons to be <lb></lb>
such regarded) And as the Ends of the Comission have<lb></lb>
always been hitherto Sufficiently answered They humbly<lb></lb>
leg leave to lay before your Lordship their observacons on <lb></lb>
those reasons which they understand are offered to prevail with<lb></lb>
your Lordship to make the alteracons desired in the sd. Comission <lb></lb>
And they are willing to pay all due Regard to the Worthy<lb></lb>
Gentlemen in the Comission of the peace for the County of <lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo161">Middlsex</rs>
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and therefore are inclined to take notice of their<lb></lb>
Consideracons in the Order as they have placed them.</p>
<p n="226"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">par 1</note>
That the Comission of Goal Delivery of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo162">Newgate</rs>
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is holden<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo163">Old Baily</rs>
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as well for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo164">Middx</rs>
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as for the <lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo165">City of London</rs>
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And that since the late great increase of <lb></lb>
Inhabitants & Buildings in the Suburbs there have been a <lb></lb>
greater Number of Malefactors tryed for Offences comitted<lb></lb>
in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo166">Middx</rs>
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than in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo167">City of London</rs>
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.</p>
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