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<p n="1377"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">January 1779</note>
Your Petitioner therefore prays that<lb></lb>
Your Worships will be pleased to lower the Rent of<lb></lb>
the Tap in his Occupation to Twenty Pounds per<lb></lb>
Annum during the present War he being very<lb></lb>
willing to pay the same for it as he does now whe<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
peace shall be again Established or to acquierer i<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
whatever may seem meet to Your Worships in the<lb></lb>
premises</p>
<p n="1378">And Your Petitioner a sin duty<lb></lb>
bound shall ever pray Etc.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1378-1">Rich, Bond</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1379">It is Ordered that the said Petition be and the same is hereby<lb></lb>
referred to the Committee appointed to carry into immediate and effectual<lb></lb>
Execution the Repair of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1217">New Prison</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1218">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1219">Bridewell</rs>
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to Examine<lb></lb>
into the truth of the allegations contained in the same to consider whether<lb></lb>
any and what abatement should be made in the rent of the said Tap and<lb></lb>
report their Opinion thereof to his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ616">Justices of the peace</rs>
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on the County<lb></lb>
day of the next General Sessions of the peace to be holden for this County</p>
<p n="1380">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="1381">This Court being informed that the Committee<lb></lb>
appointed "to Consider how the number of Justices who may receive Wages<lb></lb>
"for attending the Sessions of the peace for this County came to be limited to<lb></lb>
"Twenty four and whether any and what addition ought to be demanded<lb></lb>
"and to whom an Application for such addition ought to be made and to<lb></lb>
"report their opinion thereof." were not pursuant to their Order of reference<lb></lb>
ready to report their Opinion here this day and that they required further<lb></lb>
time for what purpose It is Ordered that the time of the Report of the<lb></lb>
said Committee be and the same is hereby Enlarged to the County day of<lb></lb>
the General Session of the peace now next Ensuing</p>
<p n="1382">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="1383">They Clerk of the peace having informed the Court that<lb></lb>
his Grace the Duke of Northumberland before whom the Memorial<lb></lb>
determined at the General Session of the peace held for this County in the<lb></lb>
Month of September last to be presented to the Lords Commissioners<lb></lb>
of his Majestys Treasury in respect of the fees due to the several Officer<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of the Court for <del>the</del>
every Offender who shall be sentenced to hard Labour<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1220">River Thames</rs>
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had been laid for his approbation had approved<lb></lb>
thereof Ordered that Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1383-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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Knight The Reverend Sir<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1383-2">George Booth</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ617">Baronet</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1383-3">William Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1383-4">John Bretwell</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1383-5">John<lb></lb>
Machin</rs>
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