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