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Itt appeares to this Court that in the said parish of St
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Leonard Shoreditch, there are three
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Liberty vizt the Liberty
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of Moor fields, the Liberty of Hoxton, & the Liberty of Hollywell,
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That the Chuchwardens Overseers of the poore & surveyors of the
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High wayes have alwaies been chosen by the whole parish att
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their publick meetings for the Election of parish officers But that
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the constables & Headboroughs
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other inferior officers
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house & the scavengers ever
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since the Act of the 2d of Wm Mary Intituled Etc some time before
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have
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best Chosen for the Liberty of Hollywll by the Inhabitants of
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that liberty only without the Intervention of the Inhabitants of
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the That Liberties That one notice poores rate has alwaies been
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made for the whole Parish & by the Inhabitants of the whole parish
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for Releife of
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the
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all theire poore That there has been noe Rate
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ever made
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with
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for Repaires of the Highwayes within this Parish,
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the Statute worke & the Penalties required or Defaltess whole parish being sufficient
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to answer all that service But
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the Inh that
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ever since the making
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of the Said act of the of wth Mary for some years before there have beet distinct & seperate
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scavengers rates made by the said three liberties, & those rates
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dist
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seperately accounted for to ye Inhabitants of the respective Liberties
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only, In the
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takeing of wch. Accts.
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making of wch. rates & takeing the
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Accts. of them the Inhabitants of the severall
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Liberty, never
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interpos'd
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interfer'd
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with each other And itt being Justices or That the said Scavengers
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Rate we made
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fo
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as aforesaid illegall for that there ought to have been
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one intire Rate made for the whole parish this Courtis of Opinion Etc
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