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Letters Patent under Our Great Seal of
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Year of Our Reign of England Etc. give and
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grant unto Sir
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Knights Clerk of Our Crown and
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now Knight and to divers others then
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Justices of peace in and for the said County and to
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their Heirs forever a certain piece of ground lying
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and being in the
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containing in lenght two and thirty
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feet of Assize and in breadth One hundred and twenty
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feet of assize for Erection and Building thereupon
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as well of a Session House for publique
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House
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use of
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Administring Justice in the said County as
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of
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"from Liberty sundrie kinds of Male factors in Cases of
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was not large enough or sufficient to
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Mr Ford being further Examined said That he
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consider'd
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in some respects as a Common Goal
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for the whole Kingdom-That Prisoners are frequently
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brought to
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pursuance
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to several Acts of Parliament for Offences committed
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in other Counties-That the Secretaries of State, both
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Houses of Parliament The Commissioners of the Navy
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and Excise commit persons there and Smugglers
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Rebels and Offenders upon the High Seas are committed
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thither and Tried before the Kings Commissioners
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specially appointed by His Majesty by Virtue of a
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Statute of King Henry the 8th. and there are Orders
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