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<p n="1741">Peace in the said Division did not deny the truth of the said Several<lb></lb>
Charges but declared he was very Sorry for what he had done and<lb></lb>
promised he would not be Guilty of Any the like Practices for the<lb></lb>
future or do Anything whereby any Scandall might be brought<lb></lb>
on the Commission whereupon the said Several Matters were<lb></lb>
referred to further Consideration.</p>
<p n="1742">That at the Sessions of the peace held in January last the said<lb></lb>
Complaints were renewed</p>
<p n="1743">That the said Justice Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1743-1">Samuel Gower</rs>
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Notwithstanding<lb></lb>
Such Promise as aforesaid did afterwards and doth still Continue<lb></lb>
to behave and Act as aforesaid And the said Justices Now Assembled<lb></lb>
in Sessions Vizt. On the said 28th. Day of February being the County<lb></lb>
Day humbly apprehending that the said Justice has abused the<lb></lb>
Authority reposed in him by Granting Warrants in Manner aforesaid<lb></lb>
by Licenceing the said Roberts and Hallam to sell Ale as aforesaid.<lb></lb>
by not Executing his Authority as to might and was desired so to<lb></lb>
do for putting a stop to the said Plays and Interludes and by upholding<lb></lb>
and Encourageing the same as farr as it Appears to be in his Power<lb></lb>
and by doing many other Irregular things under Colour of his Office<lb></lb>
of a Justice of the Peace greatly tending to the Debauching the Morals<lb></lb>
of the People and Encourageing Vice and all Violence and Disorder<lb></lb>
To the Reproach and Scandal of the Commission in which he is<lb></lb>
Named in so much as all the Other Justices of said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2611">Tower Division</rs>
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<lb></lb>
are made very uneasy in Acting as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2055">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1744">And Therefore the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2056">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of<lb></lb>
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in Session Assembled do unanimously Agree that this<lb></lb>
their representation should be made unto your Lordship they<lb></lb>
humbly submitting the Premisses to your Lordships Wisdom<lb></lb>
and Judgment.</p>
<p n="1745"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
At the General Session of the peace of our <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-1">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
King holden for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2613">Middx</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2614">Hickshall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2615">St. John</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2616">Street</rs>
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in the County aforesd. by Adjournment On Thursday the twenty<lb></lb>
eighth day of February in the Twenty fourth year of the reign of our<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-2">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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George the second King of Great Britain France and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2617">Ireland</rs>
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Defender of the Faith Etc Before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-3">Thomas Lane</rs>
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. the right<lb></lb>
Honble George Earl of Kinnoull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-4">Henry Fielding</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-5">John Milner</rs>
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, Vigerns<lb></lb>
Edwards, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-6">Henry Butler</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-9">George Garrett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-19">William Caslon</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-20">Lister Selman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-22">Thomas Quarrill</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1745-24">Joseph Goodman</rs>
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and Other<lb></lb>
their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned to keep the<lb></lb>
peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear & determine divers Felonys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ2060">trespasses</rs>
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& other Misdeeds committed in the same County.</p>
<p n="1746">By the Court</p>
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