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