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<p n="480"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1768<lb></lb>
January.</note>
Referred to his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ470">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County acting in the said Hundred to Examine the matter of<lb></lb>
the said Petition at their special Sessions and if they should<lb></lb>
be of opinion that the said Mr. Clarke was a sufficient and<lb></lb>
fit Person to Execute the said office then to administer to him<lb></lb>
the Oath for the due Execution thereof and the said Mr.<lb></lb>
Clarke was by the said Order required to conform himself<lb></lb>
and it was by the said Order of Reference recommended<lb></lb>
to the said Justices in case they should be of opinion that<lb></lb>
the said Mr. Clarke was not a fit Person to Execute the<lb></lb>
said office to nominate and return to this Session some<lb></lb>
other person or persons duly qualified to Execute the said<lb></lb>
office to the intent that an appointment might be made of<lb></lb>
an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ471">High Constable</rs>
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there in stead of the said Mr. Clarke<lb></lb>
who was thereupon to stand discharged from the said Office<lb></lb>
Now upon reading the Report of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n480-2">Cadwallader Coker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n480-3">Israel Jalabert</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ472">Esquires</rs>
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two of his Majesty's Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace for the said County acting in their said Hundred<lb></lb>
in their special Sessions held the 14th. day of December last<lb></lb>
setting forth that they having that Day Examined into<lb></lb>
the Merits of the abovenamed Petition of the said James<lb></lb>
Clarke touching his inability of properly serving the said<lb></lb>
office of High Constable did adjudge him incapable of<lb></lb>
serving the said Office and did Name and return John<lb></lb>
Walls <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ473">Gentleman</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo426">Ponders end</rs>
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within the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo427">Enfield</rs>
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aforesaid as a proper Person to serve the same This<lb></lb>
Court being satisfied in the Premisses doth appoint the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n480-5">John Wells</rs>
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to be one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ474">High Constables</rs>
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of the said Hundred<lb></lb>
in the stead and place of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n480-6">James Clarke</rs>
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(who is to<lb></lb>
stand discharged according to the said Order) and doth<lb></lb>
order that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n480-7">John Wells</rs>
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do on Notice here of forthwith<lb></lb>
attend this court to take upon him the said office and to take his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ475">Corporal</rs>
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Oath for the due Execution thereof and in Case the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n480-8">John Wells</rs>
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shall not have notice hereof during this Session<lb></lb>
That then he attend one of his Majesty's Justices residing in or<lb></lb>
near the said hundred and to take his said Oath without further<lb></lb>
delay as he will answer for his neglect there in.</p>
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