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<p n="1104">"and is likewise one great cause of the frequency of Street<lb></lb>
"robberys and other felonys, and that it did not appeare<lb></lb>
"to the Committee that the Laws now in being are<lb></lb>
effectual or Sufficient to prevent or remedy Such<lb></lb>
mischeif,</p>
<p n="1105"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">4</note>
The Committee likewise as well from the notoriety of the<lb></lb>
fact as from their observations upon the returns before<lb></lb>
menconed came to the following Resolucon (vizt.)<lb></lb>
"That It appeared to the Committee that the extravagant<lb></lb>
"Multitude of Geneva Shops within the Bills of Mortality &<lb></lb>
"parts adjacent is one great cause of the increase of Street<lb></lb>
"Robbers and other Felons,</p>
<p n="1106">And the Committee upon observeing in Some of the Said<lb></lb>
Returns the State of the Nightly Watch kept in the Severall<lb></lb>
Divisions particularly in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1106">parish of St. Andrew</rs>
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Holborn<lb></lb>
as it Stands now divided from the new <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1107">parish of St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1108">the Martyr</rs>
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and the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1109">Saffron hill</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1110">Hatton Garden</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and Ely Rents (which therefore may Serve to Shew how<lb></lb>
it is maintained in other parts) Saw therein with the<lb></lb>
utmost concern one great rise of the present complaints,<lb></lb>
and the Committee prayed leave for a Specimen to<lb></lb>
lay before us a Short State of the matter in the said parish<lb></lb>
as it was reported by the Justices acting therein to Stand<lb></lb>
on the 30th. of October last</p>
<p n="1107">The watch there is (vizt.)</p>
<p n="1108">For the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1111">parish of St. Andrew</rs>
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HolborneBut 17:<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1556">Watchmen</rs>
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of which two are Beadles<lb></lb>
and 2 more always attend the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1557">Constable</rs>
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at the Watch house, These<lb></lb>
have but £9. P Ann each and come<lb></lb>
but at 11 and go off at 5 in the morning</p>
<p n="1109">And the Committee could not but agree with the Justices of<lb></lb>
that Division in their opinion formed upon inspecting<lb></lb>
the respective books of colleccons for the payment of the</p>
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