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1759.
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By Adjournment on Thursday the
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12th. day of July
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Order referring a certain pamphlet
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to the Conson of a Committee appointed,
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and that the Qualifications of the
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Justices be laid before such Comee
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and that a circular Letter be sent
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to them all a Week before the
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meeting of such Committee
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The Report of the Committee who met the fourth of June last on the
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Affairs of this County was read and approved of and the Clerk of the Peace
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being called on to know whether Mr Palmer has left with him the pamphlet
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mentioned in the said Report and which the Committee requested Mr.
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Palmer to leave with him acquainted the Court no such pamphlet had
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been delivered to him Mr Harvey then acquainting the Court he had
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procured one of the said Pamphlets the same as was ordered to be read
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and the Court came to the following Resolution That the Pamphlet
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be referred to the Consideration of the Committee appointed to meet the
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fourth day of september next and that they inquire into the facts
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therein States and charged and Report their Opinion as to such
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Facts and as to the said Pamphlet the next county Day, And it is
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further Ordered that the Qualifications of the Gentlemen in the
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Commission of the Peace of this County be laid before the Committee
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at their meeting and that a Circular Letter be wrote to the Gentlemen
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in the Commission at least a week before the Day of Meeting and it be
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incerted to be on very special Affairs and wherein the Honour of the
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Commission and the General Good of this County are concerned.
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By Adjournment on Thursday the 12th. of July
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clerkenwell
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Bridewell
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to
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see if prisoners discharged
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It is Ordered that a Committee of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace of this
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County be appointed to meet on Tuesday next after every Session by
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of the Clock in the forenoon at
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and from thence to go to new
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Prison and the
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to see that the Prisoners
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be discharged pursuant to their Orders on the Gaol Delivery Day of the
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Session.
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By Adjournment on Thursday the 12th. of July.
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Jonathan
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of the
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Hundred of Edmonton
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Edward Bird
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and since by
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reason of failure in his Circumstances in rendred incapable of Executing
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the said office This Court doth thereupon appoint
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Jonathan Brown
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