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<p n="1023"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">February 1778</note>
of his which have been proved before them on Oath which Summons as<lb></lb>
It is grounded on a Complaint for unlawfully refusing to give the complained<lb></lb>
a Character and the said Refusal is therein said to be against the Statute<lb></lb>
Etc the said Justices cannot but look upon as a daring abuse of that<lb></lb>
kind of process and an evidence of gross and Scandalous ignorance in the<lb></lb>
Magistrate who Issued it</p>
<p n="1024"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo952">Middlesex</rs>
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as Well within Liberties as without to wit Mrs <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1024-1">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Jones</rs>
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ats Mennell These are in his Majesty's Name to require you<lb></lb>
personally to be and appear before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1024-2">John Gretton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ447">Esquire</rs>
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one of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ448">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County Etc at my House in<lb></lb>
Margaret Street aforesaid this day at six o' Clock in the afternoon then<lb></lb>
and there to shew cause and answer the complaint of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1024-3">Ann Drury</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
unlawfully refusing to give her a Caracter against the Statute Etc Hereof<lb></lb>
fail not at your Peril Given under my Hand and Seal this first day of<lb></lb>
Dee one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven</p>
<p n="1025">And his Majesty's said Justices do further represent to your Lordship<lb></lb>
the following Instances of Venality in the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1025-1">John Gretton</rs>
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vizt That on<lb></lb>
or about the 20th day of December last the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1025-2">John Gretton</rs>
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issued a Summons<lb></lb>
against one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1025-3">George Jobson</rs>
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who then exhibited a Puppet Show in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo953">Turnstile<lb></lb>
Holborn</rs>
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and upon his appearance the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1025-4">John Gretton</rs>
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entered into an<lb></lb>
Jale and impertinent Conversation with him the said Jobson at the end<lb></lb>
whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1025-5">John Gretton</rs>
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told the said Jobson that he must go with his<lb></lb>
the said Justices People to a neighbouring Public House and that he<lb></lb>
accordingly did so when he was told by them that he must pay five Guiness<lb></lb>
as he was under the Law of £50 penalty which he not being able to do<lb></lb>
they all returned to the said Justices Office and there the said Jobson being<lb></lb>
so directed by the Justices People paid into Hands of the Clerk in the<lb></lb>
presence of and as he has sworn he verily believes for the use of the said<lb></lb>
Justice the Sum of two Guineas and being then told that he should have a<lb></lb>
License from the said Justice permitting him to exhibit his Puppet Shew in<lb></lb>
any part of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo954">County of Middlesex</rs>
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he called a few Days after for the said<lb></lb>
License but upon his refusal to pay half a Crown more for it the said License was denie<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
him.</p>
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