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January 1779
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Your Petitioner therefore prays that
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Your Worships will be pleased to lower the Rent of
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the Tap in his Occupation to Twenty Pounds per
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Annum during the present War he being very
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willing to pay the same for it as he does now whe
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peace shall be again Established or to acquierer i
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whatever may seem meet to Your Worships in the
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And Your Petitioner a sin duty
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bound shall ever pray Etc.
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It is Ordered that the said Petition be and the same is hereby
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referred to the Committee appointed to carry into immediate and effectual
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Execution the Repair of
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to Examine
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into the truth of the allegations contained in the same to consider whether
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any and what abatement should be made in the rent of the said Tap and
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report their Opinion thereof to his Majestys
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Justices of the peace
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on the County
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day of the next General Sessions of the peace to be holden for this County
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By adjournment same day
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This Court being informed that the Committee
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appointed "to Consider how the number of Justices who may receive Wages
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"for attending the Sessions of the peace for this County came to be limited to
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"Twenty four and whether any and what addition ought to be demanded
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"and to whom an Application for such addition ought to be made and to
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ready to report their Opinion here this day and that they required further
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time for what purpose It is Ordered that the time of the Report of the
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said Committee be and the same is hereby Enlarged to the County day of
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the General Session of the peace now next Ensuing
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By adjournment same day
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They Clerk of the peace having informed the Court that
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his Grace the Duke of Northumberland before whom the Memorial
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determined at the General Session of the peace held for this County in the
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Month of September last to be presented to the Lords Commissioners
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of his Majestys Treasury in respect of the fees due to the several Officer
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of the Court for
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every Offender who shall be sentenced to hard Labour
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on the
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thereof Ordered that Sir
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Knight The Reverend Sir
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