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<p n="1010"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">February 1778</note>
the said Committee to be fully and clearly proved on Oath viz that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1010-1">John Gretton</rs>
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having issued his Warrant against one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1010-2">Patri<obscured></obscured>
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Knowland</rs>
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upon the complaint of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1010-3">John Ross</rs>
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for a Felony the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1010-4">Pab<obscured></obscured>
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Knowland</rs>
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was apprehended and committed by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1010-5">John Gretton</rs>
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a<obscured></obscured>
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that thereupon the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1010-6">John Gretton</rs>
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the Justice made out a Bill a<obscured></obscured>
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among other charges demanded of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1010-7">John Ross</rs>
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for informations<lb></lb>
ten Shillings and for recognizances thirteen Shillings which Demand<lb></lb>
the said Committee declared to be in their Judgment extorsive oppres<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and illegal</p>
<p n="1011">That it also appeared to the said Committee by the affidavit of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1011-1">Catherine Murphy</rs>
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a poor infirm Woman aged 69 that she the said<lb></lb>
Catherine had been forcibly taken and carried before the said John Gre<obscured></obscured>
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though without any Warrant or even Information That after being<lb></lb>
closely confined by order of the said Justice from two o'Clock in the after<obscured></obscured>
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'till ten o' Clock at night in his House during which time she was<lb></lb>
rumaged and pulled about by the said Justice was afterwards<lb></lb>
committed to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo941">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo942">Clerkenwell</rs>
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for unlawfully<lb></lb>
offering to Sale a quantity of Tea without License or Permit as<lb></lb>
appears by the Warrant of Commitment to her affidavit annexed w<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
she remained until the next day when she was discharged by the <obscured></obscured>
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Justice her Son having paid to the said Justice himself the Sum of m<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
pound eleven Shillings and six pence for such her discharge</p>
<p n="1012">That it also appeared to the said Committee upon the exam<obscured></obscured>
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on Oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1012-1">Thomas Terry</rs>
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a credible person that on the 15th day of O<obscured></obscured>
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last he was Summoned to appear the same day before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1012-2">John Gretton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ437">Esquire</rs>
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at his House in Margaret Street at seven o' Clock in <obscured></obscured>
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evening to answer the complaint of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1012-3">Robert Knighton</rs>
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(who it app<obscured></obscured>
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to your Committee Acts as Clerk to the said Justice) for contempt in not<lb></lb>
paying the fees of Office of eight Shillings according to a Process issue<obscured></obscured>
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out against him against the Statute That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1012-4">Thomas Terry</rs>
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eight o' Clock the same Evening was apprehended upon a Warrant<lb></lb>
granted by the said Justice for the said Offence and taken before him<lb></lb>
and that when before the said Justice instead of eight Shillings for<lb></lb>
which he had been so Summoned the said Justice demanded the<lb></lb>
Sum of fifteen Shillings and six pence which the said Thomas Te<obscured></obscured>
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was obliged to pay before he could be discharged</p>
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