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<p n="535"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1768<lb></lb>
September.</note>
and paraded throt. the high Streets and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ526">public Highways</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo467">Shadwell</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo468">Ratcliffe</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55605_geo468" type="placeName" value="Ratcliffe"></interp>
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and the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo469">Parish of Stepney</rs>
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, in the<lb></lb>
County aforesaid, with Drums beating and Colours flying.</p>
<p n="536">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n536-1">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55605_n536-1" type="surname" value="Hodgson"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55605_n536-1" type="gender" value="unknown"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ527">Esquire</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55605_occ527" type="occupation" value="Esquire"></interp>
, the' not an<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ528">Fishman</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55605_occ528" type="occupation" value="Fishman"></interp>
, but a Native of England, an utter Barrister of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo470">Grays Inn</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55605_geo470" type="placeName" value="Grays Inn"></interp>
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, and one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ529">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo471">County of Middlesex</rs>
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did in his own proper Person with<lb></lb>
one of the said Shamrogges in his Hat, March at the Head<lb></lb>
of the said mob so assembled and did by Shouts acclamations<lb></lb>
and other Gestures, in consistent with the Duty and character<lb></lb>
of a Magistrate testify his approbation of, and give<lb></lb>
Countenance to then tumultuous proceedings; and more<lb></lb>
particularly, that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n536-3">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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, during the<lb></lb>
said procession, marched at the head of the said Mob so<lb></lb>
collected as aforesaid, with a Stick or Cane in his hand<lb></lb>
and at the end of every four or five hundred Yards made<lb></lb>
a halt, and waived or Brandished the said Stick or cane<lb></lb>
over his head several Times, which Signal was from time<lb></lb>
to time duly answered by the Shouts and huzzas of the<lb></lb>
Mob so assembled, and who followed at his Heels in<lb></lb>
manner aforesaid.</p>
<p n="537">That the Riotous and tumultuous Procession afsd<lb></lb>
lasted for several hours; and that after the same was over<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n537-1">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55605_n537-1" type="surname" value="Hodgson"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55605_n537-1" type="gender" value="unknown"></interp>
went to a public House at Stepney<lb></lb>
called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo472">Spring Gardens</rs>
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, together with divers Persons who<lb></lb>
had Walked with him in the said Procession, and spent the<lb></lb>
remainder of the Day and supped with them there.</p>
<p n="538">That the several facts above stated, with many others<lb></lb>
that bespeak a general in attention in the said Ralph<lb></lb>
Hodgson to the preservation of the public Peace, and a<lb></lb>
shameless prostitution of the Office and Character of a<lb></lb>
Magistrate, were represented to us in our general Session of<lb></lb>
the Peace assembled, on the 19th. day of May last, in and by<lb></lb>
a Petition of a great number of the Inhabitants of Shadwell<lb></lb>
and the parts adjacent Men of property and respectable<lb></lb>
Characters praying Redness of which petition the said Ralph</p>
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