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Grand Jury, who should by his Oath taken in open Court, or by
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any other proper Evidence, appear in the Judgment of the
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Court not worth the value of three hundred pounds, such
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person should be excused or rejected, and set aside from being
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a Grand Juryman of the said County: And whereas since the
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making of the said Order, divers persons have been return'd
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upon the pannel of the Grand Jury of this County, whom
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the Opinion of this Court ought not to have been return'd
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thereupon. Now to the Intent that the said rented Order
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may be observed, and also that persons who Keep comon
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Gaming Houses, or disorderly publick houses, may not be
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streened by any Grand Juryman, from any prosecution
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intended against them for the same; It is Orderly by this
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Court, that the said rented Order be from henceforth well
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and truly observed; and this Court doth further Order,
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That the Sheriff of the
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for the time
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being, do not hereafter return to the Court of any General
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Quarter General Sessions of the peace for the said County
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upon the pannel of the Grand Jury, any person keeping
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a Victualling house, Gaming house, or Cook's Shop, or
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selling distilled strong spirituous Liquors by Retail. And
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that if any such person shall hereafter be return'd upon the
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pannel of the Grand Jury, he shall be discharg'd from
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serving thereon, upon proof made in open Court, by his
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own Oath, or other proper Evidence, of his following such
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Trade or Employment, And it is further Ordered by this Court,
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that this Order be forthwith printed, and a competent
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Number of the printed Copies of the same transmitted to the
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several high Constables, to be publish'd by them in the most
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publick Manner
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: And that this Order be read every Sessions
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immediately before the Grand Jury be sworn.
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P Adjorn Mercury
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8 o. die Decembris 1725
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Order cencerning the
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paymt. of several Sumes
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of mony by Sr. Daniel
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Dolins Esqr. for repairing
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the house of Correccon at
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Clerkenwell
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Upon Report made unto this Court (Oretenns) by
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Robert
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Thornhill
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Esqr
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and others of a Committee of his Maties Justices
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of the peace of this County concerning the repairing of the
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house of Correction
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in this County that
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several repairs have been lately done thereunto for the
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better securing and strengthening of the same and that
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there are due to several Workmen hereinafter menconed
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