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<p n="574">To the Right Honble. the Knights Citizens & Burgesses in Parliamt. Assembled .</p>
<p n="575">The humble Petition and Representation of his Majestyes<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo384">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their<lb></lb>
Generall Quarter Sessions assembled at Hicks hall this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSMGO40000_date66">13th. of January 1719</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="576"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
</p>
<p n="577"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Reprsentacon of<lb></lb>
Justices of peace to<lb></lb>
the honble. House of<lb></lb>
Comons concerning<lb></lb>
a Nightly watch</note>
That severall Persons of Quality and others have been lately<lb></lb>
& in an unusual manner a attackt in their Coaches and Chairs &<lb></lb>
some of them Robbed in the High Streets within the Weekly Bills of<lb></lb>
Mortality, and yet none of the Persons concerned in these Robberys<lb></lb>
have been apprehended or taken, which We humbly conceive is<lb></lb>
to be imputed to the Want of a proper and regular Watch for<lb></lb>
guarding of the said Streets and persueing apprehending of them</p>
<p n="578">That there is no Law now in force for any Watch except the<lb></lb>
Statute of Winchester which has no provision between Michaelmas<lb></lb>
and Lady day when there is most occasion, and the method<lb></lb>
now used is for the Constables to appoint what Persons<lb></lb>
and what Number of Watchmen they think fit, and to raise<lb></lb>
and levy great Sums on the Inhabitants under pretence of <lb></lb>
paying them without rendring any Account, there being<lb></lb>
no Law in force to compell Constables there Unto, and Yet<lb></lb>
the Watch so Kept is found by experience not to be<lb></lb>
Sufficient for the Security of the Inhabitants altho' the same<lb></lb>
is a great oppression and charge to them, All which we<lb></lb>
humbly represent and Submitt to this Honoble. House, & pray<lb></lb>
that such remedy may be applyed as in your great wisdom<lb></lb>
Shall be thought most fit and convenient,</p>
<p n="579">And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.</p>
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J Saunders<lb></lb>
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R. Thornhill<lb></lb>
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J. Hayne<lb></lb>
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L. Saint Lo<lb></lb>
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