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<p n="528"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1768 September.</note>
That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n528-1">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ521">Esqr</rs>
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. one of his Majesty's Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace for the said County, resides in the said Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo461">Shadwell</rs>
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and acts as such Justice in a certain Room or Hall<lb></lb>
there which he calls a Comittium, deriving great advantages<lb></lb>
and Emoluments to himself and his dependants from the<lb></lb>
Exercise of his Office of a Magistrate.</p>
<p n="529">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n529-1">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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with a view to his<lb></lb>
own private Gain and without any legal authority for so<lb></lb>
doing, had for some time before the commencement of the<lb></lb>
said Outrages and disorders erected an Office for a registry<lb></lb>
of Coalheavers, which he attended in Person, and from<lb></lb>
whence for a fee of one Shilling each he issued in the name<lb></lb>
of his Clerk certain printed Tickets certifying that the<lb></lb>
Purchasers therein named respectively had passed an<lb></lb>
Examination at his said Office and importing that in<lb></lb>
consequence thereof a liberty for such purchasers of Tickets<lb></lb>
respectively to use and follow the Business of Coalheaving.</p>
<p n="530">That the issuing of the Tickets aforesaid wrought<lb></lb>
such effects upon the minds of the Coalheavers in general<lb></lb>
that no Coalheaver tho' ever so peaceably disposed or willing<lb></lb>
to work, who had not such a Ticket for his protection, could<lb></lb>
without danger of hurt or violence, exercise his lawful<lb></lb>
calling, for that the Coalheavers, who were registered, and<lb></lb>
had procured such Tickets as aforesaid, had invented a <lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ522">punishment</rs>
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for those who had not, by tying a Rope about<lb></lb>
their Bodies, and plunging them in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo462">River Thames</rs>
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;<lb></lb>
which punishment they inflicted with aggravated<lb></lb>
circumstances of violence and wanton inhumanity on such<lb></lb>
of their unprotected Brethren as dared to work and as they<lb></lb>
could lay handson.</p>
<p n="531">That exclusive of the other mischiefs which followed<lb></lb>
the meeting of the said Office, the Scheme of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n531-1">Ralph<lb></lb>
Hodgson</rs>
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for such an institution, had in the first conception<lb></lb>
thereof, a tendency to defeat the purposes of an Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament made and passed in the 31st. Year of the Reign<lb></lb>
of his late Majesty King George the 2d. which established a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ523">Registry for Coalheavers</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo463">Shadwell</rs>
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aforesaid, and committed</p>
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