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the List of the Members of the said Committee and that they do
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form a new list of such Gentlemen in the Commission of the peace
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for this County as will and are most likely to attend to the business
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of the said Committee and report the same to the Court on the
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County day of the next Session Etc. and that the said Committee
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do meet for the first time on such day and at such place as The
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Reverend Sir
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George Booth
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Baronet shall appoint and afterwards
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do meet and adjourn at pleasure
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By adjournment same day
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It having been represented to this Court that
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George Elliot
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Gentleman
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High Constable of the Division
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of the Hundred of
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Ossulston within this County called
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the Tower
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Division had
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been in the said Office for Three Years and Upwards and
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several of His Majestys
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Justices of the peace
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for this County
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residing and Acting in the said Division being now here
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present and having recommended it to the Court to continue
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the said
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George Elliot
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in the Office of High Constable for the said
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Division as well on Account of his good Behaviour in his
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Office as his knowledge of the duties thereof This Court doth
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hereby Continue and appoint the said
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George Elliot
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Gent
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High Constable within the said Division of the said
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Hundered of Ossulston called
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By adjournment Monday 21st Septr.
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Whereas at this Court
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Thomas Coombes
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one of the
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High Constables for the Hundred of Gore hath Exhibited his
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Petition Setting forth that on the Twenty first day of August 1775
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he was by an Order of Court Sworn into the said office and which
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Office he has Executed to the best of his ability for the Space of
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Three Years during the whole of which time he was by reason
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of his frequent Rheumatic Indispositions and form the nature
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of the said Office at a Great Expence in discharging the duty
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thereof and praying to be discharged from his said Office and this
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Court being satisfied in the premises and
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George Presgrove
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Mill Hill
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being recommended to
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this Court by two of his Majestys
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Justices of the peace
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for the said
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County residing and Acting for the said Hundred as a fit and
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proper person to Serve the said Office This Court doth
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hereby appoint the said
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George Presgrove
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to be one of the High
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