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