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hath
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for several days past advertised that there are two
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Green Bulls to be baited near the pound in the said Street (meaning
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that they are to be baited in the yard adjoining to the house of the
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said Nichols) And the said Nichols gives out that after the said
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Bulls have been baited they are to be tilled and the Flesh of them
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given to the poor of the said parish, and that the admittance money
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is to be laid out in Bread to be given with the Meat, And moreover
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that the said Bulls are the Gift of some Gentleman in the parish
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But that the Petitioners are well assured that they are only artfull
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Insinnatious of the said Nichols, and that the said Bulls are to be
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baited for the whole and sole Benefit of the Said Nichols And
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being done under a pretence of Charity, which he imagines
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prevents the Nusance
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for an
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being taken Notice of But Whatsoever
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his pretence may be the Petitioners complain that this Bull
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baiting occasions the Assembling of a great Number of Loose and
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disorderly Persons to meet together, who are not only a Nusance
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and Annoyance to the Neighbours but when the Sport is over
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(as they call it) these idle and rascally Fellows go about the Town
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in Gangs, and commit all Manner of disorderly Riots to the great
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Damage and Disturbance of many of his Majestys Liege Subjects
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And the Petitioners humbly prayed that this Court will take the
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Premisses into Consideration, and give such Orders thereupon as
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Shall effectually prevent the Nusance complained of under which
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Petition it is mentioned That the Petitioners durst not set their Names
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to their Petition, because should the said Nichols and his Bull baiters
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have
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be any wife informed of the persons who made this Complaint
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they would go indanger of Looseing their Lives by these desperate
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This Court upon Consideration of the Premisses is of Opinion
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that the Riotous Assemblies of Loose idle and disorderly Persons
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occasioned by the Bullbaiting so advertised is a great grievance and
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dangerous to his Majestys Liege Subjects and may occasion great
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Mischiefs to be done to the publick And doth therefore for the preventing
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such Mischiefs for the Future Order that it be and it is hereby recomended
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and referred unto his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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for the said
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County of Middx residing or acting
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in or near
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Finsbury Division
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in the said
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County (within which Division the aforesaid Yard of the said Nichols doth lye)
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