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the peace for this county, manifestly (as they conceived)
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calculated and lending To obstruct the due performance
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of the service as aforesaid enjoined by
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, both
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in the particular instance to be menconed as also in
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others from the Evil Example there by set, They have
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Judged themselves indispensably obliged by their
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Duty to the King and their fellow subjects to lay this
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case particularly and by itself before the court for
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their consideration, and to the End that a proper
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The Committee proceed to asquaint the court That on
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saturday the 15th day of November last Information
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and complaint upon Oath was made to the Comittee
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by Mr.
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James Sharpless
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Division Mr.
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John Wilson
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and Mr.
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Robert Nannya
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peace officer that a warrant of search having been
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issued by several of his Majestys
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Justices by the peace
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acting in the Division aforesaid the same was Executed
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by the said Mr. Sharpless on the 21st. of October last,
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and a house thereby searched which stood then
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Indicted for a Disorderly house, and Two women of
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ill fame and Character were taken at the said house
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thereupon where one Mr. Robert Jennison being
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present opposed there being taken away by the said
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and bid him take the said women at
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his peril, But the said High constable having carried
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the said 2 women to the watch house the said Robert
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Jennison came thither and there publicly said that
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if he had Thought the Hugh Constable would have
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brought the said women away he would have run
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him thro' the Body or to that effect of which behaviour
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of the said
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Robert Jennison
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Complaint being made
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the next day by the said
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to the
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Justices of that Division, a warrant was issued under
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the Hands and Seales of
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John Milner
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John Ellis
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and
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John Mercer
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Esqr dated the 22d of October 1728
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(which Warrant is here unto annexed) marked (1) for
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the apprehending of the said Robert Jennison als
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Dennison to answer to all such matters and things
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