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