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By adjournment on Thursday the
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Twenty sixth day of April 1759
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Order for Mr.
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John Higgs
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Treasurer
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to Mr.
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John White
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It is Ordered by this Court that Mr.
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John Higgs
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Treasurer
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of this County
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John White
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the Sum of One pound and six pence for
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paper Ink and other Matters found and provided and Money paid by
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him at the Meetings of his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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for this County
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at Hicks Hall in
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St. John Street
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in the said County And that the Receipt
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of the said Mr. White together with this Order shall be a sufficient
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Discharge to the said
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Treasurer
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for such payment.
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By adjournment on Thursday the twenty sixth day of April 1759
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Order for Mr.
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John Higgs
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Treasurer
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to pay 9s to
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Mr.
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Richard Wilson
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It is Ordered by this Court that Mr.
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John Higgs
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Treasurer
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of this
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County do pay unto
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Richard Wilson
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the Sum of nine shillings for
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money by him paid for writing nine Copys of a Letter from the Lords
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of his Majestys most honourable privy Council concerning the
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impressing Stragling Seamen and Seafaring Men And that the
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Receipt of the said
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Richard Wilson
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together with this Order
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shall be a sufficient Discharge to the said
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Treasurer
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for such payment.
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By adjournment on Thursday the twenty sixth day of April 1759.
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Order made concerning
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the Report agl.
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Joseph
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St. Lawrence
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Esquire
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A Report being made unto this Court by
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George Greene
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Thomas
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Nicoll
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Charles Palmer
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Esqrs
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. being a Committee of his Majesty's
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of the Peace of this County appointed to inquire into the Truth of a Complaint
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made to this Court concerning Persons apprehended for Offences arising
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in the County at large and their being committed to the Prisions of the
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It appeareth to this Court by the said Report
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That the said Committee had inquired into the said Complaint and
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found the same to be true upon the Examination upon Oath of the
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Peace Officers of the Parishes
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of St. Giles in the Fields
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and
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St. George
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in the said County of Middx and by a Number of
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Warrants produced by the said Officers under the Hand and Seat of
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Joseph St. Lawrence
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Esqr
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. which Warrants were indorsed on the Back
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Committed to the Gatehouse and others committed to
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Bridewell
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, which
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Bridewell
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the said Officers declared to be
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Tothill Fields
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Bridewell
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Westminster
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notwithstanding the Offences charged in such Warrants
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were committed in the Parishes of
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St. Giles and St. George Bloomsbury
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and the Partys apprehended there and that this Practice had been
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carried on for a considerable length of time And that by the Statute
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