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April
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Upon reading the Petition of Daniel Closed on one of the High
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Constables within the Hundred of Gore settingforth that he hath
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served the Office of
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for upwards of One Year and
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has paid and discharged all County Rates to ye Treasurer and
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further setting forth that he is unable to attend in the said
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Office by reason of corparal Infirmities being very much afflicted
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with an Asthma & the Gout And therefore praying to be dischar-
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ged from the said Office And this Court being satisfied in the
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Premisses Doth Appoint John Ventum of the Village of great
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And doth Order that the said
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on Notice hereof do forthwith attend one of his Majesty's
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take his Oath for the due execution of his said
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Office And that when & after the said John Ventum shall
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have taken his said Oath the said
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Same day
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The Expence of making
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Vagrant Passes not to be
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pd. for out of County
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stock and Treasr. to lay
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expenss'd the party was
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adjudged a Vagabond}
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in this County layd before His Majestys
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for this County here Assembled an Abstract
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Transmitted to the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the
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said City and Liberty in Consequence of the business mentioned
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in the Petition of
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Thomas Drake
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amounting to
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274 in number. And this Court after further debate of the
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matter Doth Dismiss so much of the said Petition as relates to charging
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the said County with the Expence of making Vagrant Passes and this
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Court doth further Order that the Treasurer of the said County for the
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time being Do lay before the Sessions from time to time all Orders
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for the apprehending of Rogues and Vagabonds which shall from
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hence forward be brought for Payment not expressing
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that the
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Person therein named hath been Adjudged a Rogue and Vagabond.
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