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<p n="256">By adjournment on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55604_date40">Twenty sixth day of April 1759</rs>
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</p>
<p n="257"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n257-1">John Higgs</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ314">Treasurer</rs>
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to pay £1.0s.6d<lb></lb>
to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n257-2">John White</rs>
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</note>
It is Ordered by this Court that Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n257-3">John Higgs</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ315">Treasurer</rs>
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of this County<lb></lb>
do pay unto Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n257-4">John White</rs>
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the Sum of One pound and six pence for<lb></lb>
paper Ink and other Matters found and provided and Money paid by<lb></lb>
him at the Meetings of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ316">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for this County<lb></lb>
at Hicks Hall in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo398">St. John Street</rs>
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in the said County And that the Receipt<lb></lb>
of the said Mr. White together with this Order shall be a sufficient<lb></lb>
Discharge to the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ317">Treasurer</rs>
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for such payment.</p>
<p n="258">By adjournment on Thursday the twenty sixth day of April 1759</p>
<p n="259"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n259-1">John Higgs</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n259-1" type="surname" value="Higgs"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n259-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ318">Treasurer</rs>
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to pay 9s to<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n259-2">Richard Wilson</rs>
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</note>
It is Ordered by this Court that Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n259-3">John Higgs</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ319">Treasurer</rs>
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of this<lb></lb>
County do pay unto <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n259-4">Richard Wilson</rs>
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the Sum of nine shillings for<lb></lb>
money by him paid for writing nine Copys of a Letter from the Lords<lb></lb>
of his Majestys most honourable privy Council concerning the<lb></lb>
impressing Stragling Seamen and Seafaring Men And that the<lb></lb>
Receipt of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n259-6">Richard Wilson</rs>
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together with this Order<lb></lb>
shall be a sufficient Discharge to the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ320">Treasurer</rs>
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for such payment.</p>
<p n="260">By adjournment on Thursday the twenty sixth day of April 1759.</p>
<p n="261"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order made concerning<lb></lb>
the Report agl. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n261-1">Joseph<lb></lb>
St. Lawrence</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ321">Esquire</rs>
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</note>
A Report being made unto this Court by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n261-3">George Greene</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n261-7">Thomas<lb></lb>
Nicoll</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n261-4">Charles Palmer</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ322">Esqrs</rs>
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. being a Committee of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
of the Peace of this County appointed to inquire into the Truth of a Complaint<lb></lb>
made to this Court concerning Persons apprehended for Offences arising<lb></lb>
in the County at large and their being committed to the Prisions of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo399">City of Westminster</rs>
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It appeareth to this Court by the said Report<lb></lb>
That the said Committee had inquired into the said Complaint and<lb></lb>
found the same to be true upon the Examination upon Oath of the<lb></lb>
Peace Officers of the Parishes <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo400">of St. Giles in the Fields</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo401">St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo402">Bloomsbury</rs>
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in the said County of Middx and by a Number of<lb></lb>
Warrants produced by the said Officers under the Hand and Seat of<lb></lb>
Joseph St. Lawrence <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ323">Esqr</rs>
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. which Warrants were indorsed on the Back<lb></lb>
Committed to the Gatehouse and others committed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo403">Bridewell</rs>
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, which<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo404">Bridewell</rs>
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the said Officers declared to be <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo405">Tothill Fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo406">Bridewell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo407">Westminster</rs>
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notwithstanding the Offences charged in such Warrants<lb></lb>
were committed in the Parishes of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo408">St. Giles and St. George Bloomsbury</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and the Partys apprehended there and that this Practice had been<lb></lb>
carried on for a considerable length of time And that by the Statute<lb></lb>
of H. 4. C. 10. It is ordained and established that none be imprisoned<lb></lb>
by any Justice of the Peace but only in the Common Goal, saving</p>
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