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<p n="539"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1768.<lb></lb>
September.</note>
Hodgson received due Notice together with a Copy thereof and <lb></lb>
an invitation to attend us the said Justices on Thursday the 7th.<lb></lb>
Day of July last in order to his Exculpation.</p>
<p n="540">That he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n540-1">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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attended accrodingly<lb></lb>
assisted by Council to manage his defence, and divers Witnesses, <lb></lb>
namely <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n540-2">George Caffarey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n540-3">Burford Camper</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n540-4">Thomas Wright</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n540-5">John Dawson</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n540-6">Robert Anderson</rs>
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, were then and there<lb></lb>
Examined on Oath, in the presence and hearing of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n540-7">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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and his Council, who cross Examined them,<lb></lb>
and made objections from time to time, as they saw occasion,<lb></lb>
but produced no Witnesses on the part of him the said Ralph<lb></lb>
Hodgson save and except an affidavit of his own making<lb></lb>
which he declined reading.</p>
<p n="541">That according to the best of our Judgments the Evidence in<lb></lb>
support of the Petition sofar as it related to the several Facts above<lb></lb>
stated was full clear and decisive, and therefore We cannot but think<lb></lb>
and look upon the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n541-1">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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as accessary to the outrages<lb></lb>
and disorders aforesaid to the great disturbance of the public Peace<lb></lb>
and Terror of his Majestys subjects; and do therefore apprehend<lb></lb>
him most unworthy and unfit to exercise or hold the Office or<lb></lb>
authority of a Magistrate for this County.</p>
<p n="542">In Consequence of which opinion and determination<lb></lb>
from motives of Justice to the public; and influenced<lb></lb>
by that reverence for the Government and Laws of<lb></lb>
this Country, which We ourselves entertain, and it<lb></lb>
has been and is our constant endeavour to excite<lb></lb>
in others, We hold it to be our indispensible Duty to<lb></lb>
join in an application for the superseding or<lb></lb>
otherwise removing the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n542-1">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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from<lb></lb>
the Office and authority of a Justice of the Peace for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo473">County of Middlesex</rs>
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; and do accordingly in the<lb></lb>
method of address prescribed to us, by the ancient<lb></lb>
and accustomed usage in matters of this nature<lb></lb>
make this our representation and remonstrance:<lb></lb>
submitting the Consideration thereof to your<lb></lb>
Lordship's Wisdom and Judgment</p>
<p n="543">Signed by Order of the Court<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n543-1">James Waller</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Cl. of the Peace</p>
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