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<p n="893"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">December 1777</note>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n893-1">Margaret Street</rs>
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Cavendish Square</p>
<p n="894">Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n894-1">Elizabeth Jones</rs>
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ats Mennell</p>
<p n="895"> <lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo859">Middlesex</rs>
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as<lb></lb>
well within Liberties<lb></lb>
as without} to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n895-1">John Gretton</rs>
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LS</note>
These are on his Majestys name to require you personally to be<lb></lb>
and appear before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n895-2">John Gretton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ373">Esq</rs>
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one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ374">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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for the said County Etc. at my house in Margaret Street afores<obscured></obscured>
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His day at Six O Clock in the afternoon then and there to shew C<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and Answer the Complaint of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n895-3">Ann Drury</rs>
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for <obscured></obscured>
refusing to<lb></lb>
her a Carractor Hereof fail not at Your peril Given <obscured></obscured>
my hands<lb></lb>
and Seal this first day of Decr. One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy<lb></lb>
Seven</p>
<p n="896">Whereupon It was Moved by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n896-1">John Spen</rs>
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<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ375">Colepeper</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ376">Esquire</rs>
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one other of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ377">Justices of the peace</rs>
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of or th<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
County That it having been represented to this Court that certain act<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Magistrates within this County have grossly misbehaved themselves in the<lb></lb>
Execution of their Office as Justices of the peace Resolved that if be rep<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
to a Committee to Examine and inquire into any undue and illegal<lb></lb>
practices of such Magistrates as well as of any other that may be C<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
before them and report their proceedings from time to time to the Court of<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the County day of each Session and the same being carried unan<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
in the Affirmative It is Ordered That</p>
<p n="897">The Revd. Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n897-1">George Booth</rs>
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Bart.<lb></lb>
Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n897-2">John Chetwode</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ378">Baronet</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n897-3">John Spencer</rs>
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Colepeper<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n897-4">John Brettell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n897-5">John Croft</rs>
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<lb></lb>
James Spagg<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n897-6">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n897-7">William Quarrill</rs>
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</p>
<p n="898"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n898-1">Thomas Parker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n898-2">William Manwaring</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n898-3">Richard Paul Jodrell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n898-4">John Barnfather</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n898-5">James Croft</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Thomas Tryon Cotton<lb></lb>
&<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n898-6">George Allcock</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ379">Esquire</rs>
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</p>
<p n="899"> <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ380">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo860">County of Middlesex</rs>
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or any three or more<lb></lb>
of them be the Committee for the purposes aforesaid That the said Commo<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
do meet at No. 25 <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo861">Castle Yard Holborn</rs>
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on Monday the 15th. day of<lb></lb>
December Instant at Eleven O Clock in the forenoon and that afternwa<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
they do meet and adjourn to such times and places as they shall think<lb></lb>
meet</p>
<p n="900">Moved That the thanks of this Court be given to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n900-1">John<lb></lb>
Spencer</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ381">Colepeper</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ382">Esquire</rs>
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for his attention and regard to the honour of the<lb></lb>
Gentlemen named in the Commission of the peace for this County in <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Motion this day made by him for an Enquiry into the Conduct <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Magistrates as have been Guilty of Undue and illegal practices in the<lb></lb>
Execution of their Office and the same being agreed to Unanimously <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Thanks of the Court were given to Mr. Colepeper accordingly</p>
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