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<p n="631">P adjorn Martis <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO40001_date67">15th. die Octobris 1723</rs>
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<p n="632"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order desireing<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40001_n632-1">Whitlock Bulstrode</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40001_occ568">Esqr</rs>
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to attend the<lb></lb>
Rt. H: ye. Lord high<lb></lb>
Chancellor of<lb></lb>
Great Britain.</note>
His Majesties Justices of the peace Assembled at this<lb></lb>
present Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for<lb></lb>
this County upon consideration had of the Act of Parliamt.<lb></lb>
made in the Ninth Year of his now Majestys Reigne<lb></lb>
Intituled an Act to Oblige all Persons being Papists<lb></lb>
in that part of Great Britain called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40001_geo606">Scotland</rs>
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and all<lb></lb>
Persons in great Britain refusing or neglecting to take<lb></lb>
the Oathes appointed for the Security of his Majestyes<lb></lb>
Person and Government by Severall Acts therein<lb></lb>
mentioned to Register their Names and Reall Estates<lb></lb>
Whereby It is Enacted that all and every Person and <lb></lb>
Persons whatsoever who shall be of the Age of<lb></lb>
Eighteen Years or upwards not having already taken<lb></lb>
the Oathes appointed to be taken in and by an At<lb></lb>
made in the first Year of his Majestyes Reigne therein<lb></lb>
particularly mentioned who shall neglect or refuse to<lb></lb>
take the said Oathes on or before the Twenty fifth day<lb></lb>
of December one thousand Seven hundred and twenty three<lb></lb>
in any of his Majesties Court of Record at Westmr. or at<lb></lb>
the Generall or Quarter Sessions for the County where<lb></lb>
such Person or Persons shall live or Inhabit<lb></lb>
shall incurr the Penaltyes therein mentioned being<lb></lb>
Some of them of Opinion that they are empowered by the<lb></lb>
said Act to Administer the said Oathes at a Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions onely and not at a Generall Sessions of the<lb></lb>
Peace And that the Words at a Generall or <lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions are Synominous termes And being<lb></lb>
desireous to be directed in the Matter by the Right<lb></lb>
Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40001_geo607">Great Britain</rs>
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have desired <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40001_n632-3">Whitlock Bulstrode</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40001_occ569">Esquire</rs>
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their<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40001_occ570">Chairman</rs>
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humbly to apply to his Lordshipp for<lb></lb>
his Direction touching their Proceeding upon<lb></lb>
the said<obscured></obscured>
and whether they may not Administer <lb></lb>
the said <obscured></obscured>
thes at a Generall Sessions of the<lb></lb>
Peace as well as at a Quarter Sessions</p>
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