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<p n="3587">June 1795.</p>
<p n="3588">"The Clerk laid before the Meeting the following Order of reference<lb></lb>
"received by him from the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ1455">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County and the<lb></lb>
"same was read Vizt.</p>
<p n="3589">"<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo2865">Middlesex</rs>
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At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King<lb></lb>
"holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo2866">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at the Session<lb></lb>
"House for the said County (by adjournment) on Thursday the<lb></lb>
"Twenty first day of May in the Thirty fifth year of the Reign<lb></lb>
"of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc.</p>
<p n="3590">"The Clerk of the Peace having (Pursuant to the standing Order of this<lb></lb>
"Court) Reported that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n3590-1">Samuel Bridgman</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ1456">Gent</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ1457">High Constable</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55610_occ1457" type="occupation" value="High Constable"></interp>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo2867">Finsbury</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55610_geo2867" type="placeName" value="Finsbury"></interp>
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<lb></lb>
"Division in this County had continued in the said Office Three Years<lb></lb>
"Ordered that Notice hereof be given to His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ1458">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
"this County residing and acting in and for the said Division to nominate<lb></lb>
"some fit Person to the next General Quarter Session of the Peace to serve the<lb></lb>
"said Office.</p>
<p n="3591">"By the Court<lb></lb>
"Selby.</p>
<p n="3592">"The following Petition and Recommendation thereof was laid<lb></lb>
"before the Meeting and<del>also</del>
Read Vizt.</p>
<p n="3593">"No 143 <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55610_n3593-1">Goswell Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
20th. June 1795.</p>
<p n="3594">"Worshipful Gentleman</p>
<p n="3595">" I take the Liberty of respectfully offering myself for your<lb></lb>
"Approbation in the present occasion as a Candidate for the Office of High<lb></lb>
"<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ1459">Constable</rs>
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for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo2868">Finsbury Division</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo2869">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, I beg<lb></lb>
"leave humbly to represent to your Worships that I am by Trade a<lb></lb>
"<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ1460">Silversmith</rs>
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and have been an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ1461">Housekeeper</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55610_occ1461" type="occupation" value="Housekeeper"></interp>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55610_geo2870">Goswell Street</rs>
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in the Liberty<lb></lb>
"of Glass House yard in the said Division upwards of Seventeen years, have<lb></lb>
"served the said Office of Constable and am now <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55610_occ1462">Sidesman</rs>
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to the Church<lb></lb>
"Wardens for the said Liberty. I flatter myself that my Character will<lb></lb>
"bear the strictest enquiry as the Recommendation subjoined hereto will<lb></lb>
"prove, And I trust that I have a thorough knowledge of the Duties of<lb></lb>
"the Office I sollicit.</p>
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