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To the Right Honoble. Thomas Lord Parker
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Baron of Maclesfield Lord High Chancellor
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of Great Britain
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Reply of Justices of peace
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of Middx to the Answer
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of Ld. Mayst & Cotl of
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Aldmen of London
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The Reply of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the
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County of Middlesex to the Answer of the Lord
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Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London
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to a Representation of the said Justices relating
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to the incerting some of their names into the
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Comission of Goal Delivery of Newgate.
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The Justices of the peace of the County of Middlesex having
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read a Copy of a paper purporting an Answer of the Lord Mayor
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and Court of Aldermen of the City of London to a Representacon
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of the said Justices at a General Quarter Sessions holden in
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the Month of October last (being fifty and upwards)
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relating to the Incerting into the Comission of Goal Delivery
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of Newgate the names of Some of the Justices of the peace
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of the said County Do humbly Crave leave to Reply to
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the said Answer in the method therein taken
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Which admits that the Comission of Goal Delivery is held aswell
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for the County as the City and that generally the Humber of
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Malefactors are more in the County than in London But says
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that the Court is obliged to Discharge the Goal and have
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thereby the more trouble and the City the more expence
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The Justices cannot apprehend any argument from thence against
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their desire, for that if some of them be added it will partly
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lessen the trouble of Discharging the Goal, and not increase
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the expence which is partly born by the Sheriffs of
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who have certain Fines of Malefactors there, besides the
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profits of the Sheriff of the County, and the City hath had many
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priviledges and Imunities Granted by the Crown which is presumed
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may be in Recompence for the Charges of the said Goal Court
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and expences and the City have all the profits thereof & offices
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thereto belonging and the said Court is apprehended to be the
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