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<p n="356"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1766.<lb></lb>
April</note>
Thursday <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55605_date77">10th. April 1766</rs>
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<p n="357"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n357-1">John Ventum</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo327">great<lb></lb>
Stanmore</rs>
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appointed<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ343">High Constable</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo328">Gore<lb></lb>
Hundred</rs>
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in the room<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n357-2">Danl. Weedon</rs>
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dd.}</note>
Upon reading the Petition of Daniel Closed on one of the High<lb></lb>
Constables within the Hundred of Gore settingforth that he hath<lb></lb>
served the Office of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ344">High Constable</rs>
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for upwards of One Year and<lb></lb>
has paid and discharged all County Rates to ye Treasurer and<lb></lb>
further setting forth that he is unable to attend in the said<lb></lb>
Office by reason of corparal Infirmities being very much afflicted<lb></lb>
with an Asthma & the Gout And therefore praying to be dischar-<lb></lb>
ged from the said Office And this Court being satisfied in the<lb></lb>
Premisses Doth Appoint John Ventum of the Village of great<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo329">Stanmore within the said Hundred</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ345">Bricklayer</rs>
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to be high Con<lb></lb>
stable within the said Hundred in the Stead & place of thesd.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n357-3">Daniel Weedon</rs>
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And doth Order that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n357-4">John Ventum</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on Notice hereof do forthwith attend one of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ346">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for this County residing in or near thesd.<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo330">Hundred and</rs>
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take his Oath for the due execution of his said<lb></lb>
Office And that when & after the said John Ventum shall<lb></lb>
have taken his said Oath the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n357-6">Daniel Weedon</rs>
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is<lb></lb>
to stand absolutely discharged from the said Office.</p>
<p n="358">Same day</p>
<p n="359"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">The Expence of making<lb></lb>
Vagrant Passes not to be<lb></lb>
pd. for out of County<lb></lb>
stock and Treasr. to lay<lb></lb>
Orders for rewards before<lb></lb>
the Court wherein 'tis not<lb></lb>
expenss'd the party was<lb></lb>
adjudged a Vagabond}</note>
Pursuant to the Order made at the last General Session, for this<lb></lb>
County, Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n359-1">James Jefferson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ347">Deputy Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for the City<lb></lb>
and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo331">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in this County layd before His Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ348">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for this County here Assembled an Abstract<lb></lb>
by him taken of the Duplicates of Vagrant Passes and Examinations<lb></lb>
Transmitted to the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the<lb></lb>
said City and Liberty in Consequence of the business mentioned<lb></lb>
in the Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n359-2">Thomas Drake</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n359-3">John Jackson</rs>
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amounting to<lb></lb>
274 in number. And this Court after further debate of the<lb></lb>
matter Doth Dismiss so much of the said Petition as relates to charging<lb></lb>
the said County with the Expence of making Vagrant Passes and this<lb></lb>
Court doth further Order that the Treasurer of the said County for the<lb></lb>
time being Do lay before the Sessions from time to time all Orders<lb></lb>
for the apprehending of Rogues and Vagabonds which shall from<lb></lb>
hence forward be brought for Payment not expressing<del>that</del>
that the<lb></lb>
Person therein named hath been Adjudged a Rogue and Vagabond.</p>
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