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<p n="503"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1768<lb></lb>
May</note>
By adjournment Thursday <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55605_date98">19th. May 1768</rs>
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<p n="504"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order upon the Petn.<lb></lb>
of Inhabitants of<lb></lb>
Shad well.</note>
A Petition of several Persons whose Names are thereunto<lb></lb>
subscribed Inhabitants of the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell<lb></lb>
and other places adjacent in this County being presented to this<lb></lb>
Court Setting forth that on Saturday the 20th., and Wednesday<lb></lb>
the 24th. days of February last great numbers of Coal heavers<lb></lb>
and other persons assembled in a riotous and tumultuous<lb></lb>
manner in the said Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell and beat<lb></lb>
maimed, and wounded several Persons who were following<lb></lb>
their lawful Occupations, and broke the Windows Frames<lb></lb>
and Shutters of many of the Inhabitants, and afterwards<lb></lb>
boarded several Ships in the River, and wounded and cruelly<lb></lb>
treated the Masters, Mates and Seamen on board, on Monday<lb></lb>
the 6th. of March following they went to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo450">Salutation Tavern</rs>
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at Wapping Wall occupied by the Petitioner <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n504-1">Thomas Metcalf</rs>
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and about 7 o'clock in the Evening entred the House pulled<lb></lb>
down the Chimney piece, broke the Windows, china Bowls,<lb></lb>
Decanters and almost every thing else in the Bar the said<lb></lb>
petitioner having feed from his House, for fear of being<lb></lb>
Murthered, they then with Oaths and imprecations demanded<lb></lb>
of the Petitioners Wife the Body of the Petitioner, whose life<lb></lb>
they swore they were determined to have, That the said Petr.<lb></lb>
had a Wife and six Children who depended entirely on the<lb></lb>
said petitioner for their support and maintenance which they<lb></lb>
were deprived of by the petitioners being obliged to absent himself</p>
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