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<p n="754">February 1720 desired to attend on Wednesday the first of March instant<lb></lb>
To give an answer to the said Complaints; but did not; but sent a Letter<lb></lb>
Signed by himself, but wrote in another hand alledging he was very much<lb></lb>
indisposed with a Feavor so that he could not attend and desiring the<lb></lb>
Complaints might be reduced into writing and sent him that he might<lb></lb>
give his answer thereunto. Whereupon by direction of the Court another<lb></lb>
Letter was that day wrote and sent to him by the Clerk of the peace<lb></lb>
with a coppy of the said Complaints, To which he was desired to give an<lb></lb>
answer on the Friday following (Vizt.) the third of March or To make it<lb></lb>
appear to the Court that he was not able to come to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMOC40000_geo521">Hicks Hall</rs>
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by reason<lb></lb>
of his Indisposition, otherwise that the Court had resolved to draw up<lb></lb>
a Representation against him to the Lord High Chancellour for his<lb></lb>
irregular proceedings, but on the said Friday the said Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMOC40000_n754-1">William Moore</rs>
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<lb></lb>
did not appear, but sent another Letter Signed by himself but wrote in<lb></lb>
another hand by a porter dated <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMOC40000_geo522">Buckingham</rs>
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Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMOC40000_geo523">Whitehall</rs>
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March<lb></lb>
the third, alledging he was then so much indisposed with a Feavor and<lb></lb>
other distemper that he could not go out without putting his life in<lb></lb>
the greatest danger, though the porter who brought the said letter<lb></lb>
acquainted the Court that he had the said Letter a very little while<lb></lb>
before from the said Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMOC40000_n754-2">William Moore</rs>
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who was then at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMOC40000_geo524">Sun Tavern</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMOC40000_geo525">the Strand</rs>
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<p n="755">Wee think ourselves obliged to lay the premises before your Lordship<lb></lb>
although the said Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMOC40000_n755-1">William Moore</rs>
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hath not been heard before us<lb></lb>
concerning the same in as much as it is manifest (as wee humbly<lb></lb>
apprehend) that the said Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMOC40000_n755-2">William Moore</rs>
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, doth by false Suggestion sand<lb></lb>
plain misrepresentations of the State of his Health Endeavour to impose<lb></lb>
upon the Court , in Order to Evade giveing any answer to all or any the<lb></lb>
Premises, (otherwise than he has thought fit to do in his last Letter to<lb></lb>
the Court relating to the case of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMOC40000_geo526">Bonfield</rs>
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,) which with the other Letters<lb></lb>
and papers relating to the matters above Stated wee have hereunto<lb></lb>
anexed for your Lordships Consideration.</p>
<p n="756">And wee do humbly Submit To your Lordship whether the said Sr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMOC40000_n756-1">William Moor</rs>
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hath not been Guilty of very great abuses of the power<lb></lb>
granted by the Comission of the peace, and whither he hath not by<lb></lb>
colour thereof very much oppressed the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMOC40000_n756-2">Ann Charles</rs>
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Fortiscue <rs type="persName" id="LMSMOC40000_n756-3">Richard Hanford</rs>
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and his wife in amesning them before him<lb></lb>
from very remote places by special Warrants without just reason to<lb></lb>
to their great and unnecessary trouble and expence; and for causes of<lb></lb>
which he the said Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMOC40000_n756-4">William Moore</rs>
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had no Connsance as a Justice of<lb></lb>
the peace, or else without any cause at all assigned to as they might<lb></lb>
know to what they were to answer and whither he hath not greatly</p>
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