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The Representation of us whose names are hereun to subscribed
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in the said County to the County General Quarter session of
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the peace hold for the said County against
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Robert Montgomery
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one of his Majesties
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Justices of the Peace
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for
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the said Divisions
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That at the General Renewing of Lycences hotern at Hicks Hall the
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seventh day of September last the said
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attented and
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acted as one of the Clerks (the his said Master
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was-
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not present) and look instructions and filled up several lycencesThat
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application was made to us on the behalf of one
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Richard Berriff
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for a
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Lycence for an old House the sign of the Coath and Houses in
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saint Johns
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upon whith the said Montgomery informed us that he had just before
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filled up a Lycence for the same House in the name of one
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Henry Greenwood
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We immediately called for the said Greenwood but he was gone we then ordered
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that the said Lyronus made and to Greenwood (as the same was made out without
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our privity on consent) to
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main in the hands of the Clerk of the peace till the
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next meeting and ordered
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and Greenwood
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summoned to attend
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The said Greenwood
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according
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three day of
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at the Tha
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conseat
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himself to M
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are a
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sucessed.
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him shilling to put
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come being
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that the gave
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forward on the
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Seven Shillings for
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the Lycence being asked
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cause had been ever
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before he answered
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not to his Know lodge we the
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sked him if he at know hedged any Rerognizant at the
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time the Lycence was filled to the answered he did not for Montgomery told him he
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had done and said him go away Mr.
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Richard Richardson
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the said Greenwoods
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Land lord being examined on his Oath declared that he let the said House to
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Greenwood for no other purpose than he sell Greens and fruit and fora pubblick
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House and that same had never been a Lycence House and that the Coach and
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House was the next room to Greenwoods and was an old Lycence House for therefore
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conceive that the said Montgomery fillled up the said Lycence for Greenwood in the
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name of the Coach and House on purpose to impose it on us as the real House that
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used to the Lycenced
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That the said
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procured a Certificate by the
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Church wardens and overseers of all poor of the Parish of
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saint James Clerkwell
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Recommanding One
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Samuel Kent
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to sell aboat the sign of the Red Lyon in
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Saint
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and also an Order of leave for that purpose under the hand of the said
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Esquire in which we believe the said Mr. Tothill was grossly imposed
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upon by the said Montgomery the said thouse was never Lycenced before but the
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said order had not the desired Effect for upon an application at the Lenice office
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by the said kent to obtain a spirituons Lyuor Lycence the said was Rejected as not
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being signed by two Justices That Jane the & life of the said
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gave to the said
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Montgomery Five Shillings for the said certificate and Three Guineas for the said
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order That Montgomery did not ask her for any money but she gave it him Voluntarily
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for obtain her a Lycence as it was a new House and therfore Might meet with objections
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