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<p n="520"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1768.<lb></lb>
September.</note>
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<p n="521">To the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of<lb></lb>
Great Britain.</p>
<p n="522">The Representation of his Majesty's Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo456">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General<lb></lb>
Session assembled at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo457">Hicks Hall</rs>
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on Thursday the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55605_date101">8th. of September 1768</rs>
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<p n="523">Sheweth</p>
<p n="524">That in or about the beginning of the Month of<lb></lb>
February last, certain disputes having arisen between the<lb></lb>
Coalheavers employed in the unloading of Coals in the River<lb></lb>
Thames and their Master, on account of Wages, the said<lb></lb>
Coalheavers, upon the refusal of the Masters, exorbitant and<lb></lb>
what the Trade would not bear, unanimously determined<lb></lb>
to desist from their Labour; whereby a total Stop was put<lb></lb>
to the Business of unloading Coals in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo458">Port of London</rs>
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<p n="525">That in order to compel the Masters of Ships and others<lb></lb>
their Employers to comply with their demands, the said Coal,<lb></lb>
-heavers to the number of 800 and upwards chiefly Irishmen,<lb></lb>
did on or about the 20th. day of the same February, assemble<lb></lb>
in a riotous and tumultuous maner at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo459">Wapping, Shadwell</rs>
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and other places in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo460">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and commit<lb></lb>
divers outrages on the Persons and dwellings of many of the<lb></lb>
Inhabitants then and there resident.</p>
<p n="526">That the said Rioters continued such their unlawful<lb></lb>
assemblies and outrages for several weeks, thereby spreading<lb></lb>
Terror and Consternation through the whole Eastern quarter<lb></lb>
of the said County, and on or about the 20th. day of April last,<lb></lb>
invested the House of one Green situate in or near Wapping,<lb></lb>
with intent as they the said Rioters declared, to murder him.</p>
<p n="527">That in order to accomplish such their unlawful and<lb></lb>
wicked intent the said Rioters fired into the said Green's House,<lb></lb>
and drove him to the unhappy necessity of defending himself Etc<lb></lb>
his House with fire Arms, in the use whereof many of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Subjects were Plain.</p>
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