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<p n="448">In Consequence of this Remedy Trade must Increase with<lb></lb>
the Labours of the poor; our Soldiery will Still be Renowned for their<lb></lb>
Strength and Reall Courage; Servants will be more Obedient, honest,<lb></lb>
and Faithfull, and all Sorts of persons in low Life will become<lb></lb>
more strong & Robust, better Inclind to Industry and Labour, and<lb></lb>
be less Induced to Rob & Commit Murders, and Outrages, now<lb></lb>
too Common even in the publick Streets: In fine our<lb></lb>
Morals will be better Secured, and, we may, with great Reason<lb></lb>
hope once more to see, Religion Sobriety & Industry flourish<lb></lb>
among us.</p>
<p n="449">Your Committee having thus laid before you the<lb></lb>
Numbers of the Houses and places wherein Geneva and<lb></lb>
other Strong Waters are Sold as, also Some of the many Mischie-<lb></lb>
-vous Effects deriv'd from thence, and Some of the Happy<lb></lb>
Consequences most likely to attend the remedying the<lb></lb>
Mischiefs Complain'd of, Submit to the Consideration and<lb></lb>
Judgment of the Sessions, How farr it is in their power, and<lb></lb>
by what Means to Suppress this great & dangerous Evill; Or<lb></lb>
whether any or what Application to our Superiors may<lb></lb>
be proper, in Order to a more Effectuall Remedy.</p>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n450-2">John Milner</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n450-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n450-3">Nicholas Jeffreys</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n450-4">Jacob Harvey</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n450-5">John Mercer</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n450-5" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n450-5" type="surname" value="Mercer"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n450-5" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n450-6">William Booth</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n450-6" type="given" value="William"></interp>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n450-6" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n450-7">Anthony Chamberlain</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n450-7" type="given" value="Anthony"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n450-7" type="surname" value="Chamberlain"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n450-7" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n450-8">Merry Teshmaker</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n450-8" type="given" value="Merry"></interp>
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<p n="451"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
petition<lb></lb>
of the Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace of Middx<lb></lb>
to the Honble House<lb></lb>
of Cornons agt<lb></lb>
Geneva Shops}</note>
To the Honble. the Commons of Great Britain in<lb></lb>
Parliament Assembled</p>
<p n="452">The Humble Petition of his Majesties Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo434">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their genll Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions Assembled</p>
<p n="453">Humbly Sheweth</p>
<p n="454">That the drinking of Geneva & other<lb></lb>
Distill'd<del>Liquors</del>
Spirituous Liquors has for some years last<lb></lb>
past greatly encreased, Especially among the people of<lb></lb>
Inferior Rank.</p>
<p n="455">That the Constant & Excessive use thereof<lb></lb>
as now practiced, hath already destroyed thousands of his<lb></lb>
Majesties Subjects, and renders great Numbers of others<lb></lb>
unfitt for usefull Labour & Service, debauching at the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
same time their Moralls & driving their into all Manner<lb></lb>
of Vice & Wickedness.</p>
<p n="456">That</p>
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