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parishes and pleaces and Examinations of the said
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that such Collections are not Competent to answer the
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Charge of setting a more Sufficient and, able watch than is
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at present, Thereby (in some measure) to prevent the
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frequent Robberies Etc that are Committed, And the
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rather because it appears that great deficiencys usually
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attend such Collections which must be chiefly attributed
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to the want of a Legal Authority whereby to compell the
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Inhabitants to pay the same, there being in that
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Division one half at least who peremptorily refuse
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paying towards the watch.
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And your Committee find by another Report from the
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Justices acting in the large
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parish of St. Giles's
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in the
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, that with respect to the Greatness thereof the
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watch is very defective and insufficient in number
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and (what is yet more inconvenient) very backward
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and unwilling to comply with the directions of the
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Justices of the peace
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as to the Hours of watching,
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complaining of the small pay they receive from the
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Constables as no ways equal to their pains and labour
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Especially now they are obliged to watch two hours
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longer than usual without any increase in their pay
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not with standing the Great sums of mony Annually
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Collected by the Constables under pretence of providing
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a sufficient watch, which there is reason to believe
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amounts to near and third more than they pay to them
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but as the Constables Constantly refuse to give any
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account thereof and there not appearing any Law to
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oblige them thereunto no certain or particular Account
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can be had what the sinplus sunk by the Constables
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amounts to,
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And the Justices of that Division further observe that,
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from the Constables placing Displacing and paying
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their Readles and watchmen and often choosing
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Victualters and other improper persons for those
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Employments. There has arisen upon many private
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searches lately made Just cause to suspect that some
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of their Readles and watchmen do conceal and protect
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several night houses and other disorderly houses for
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their own private lune, mony of them having been
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found very backward and unwilling to give Evidence
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against them the upon their Oaths and strongly press of
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