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<p n="376">To the Worshipfull the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50576_occ67">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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at the Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50576_geo215">Hick's Hall</rs>
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in & for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50576_geo216">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="377">The Humble Petition of many of the Inhabitants of the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50576_geo217">St. Mary Islington</rs>
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here names are hereunto subscribed</p>
<p n="378"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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<p n="379">That being informed application to intended to be made to thee<lb></lb>
Worshipful Bench of Justices of a Memorial requesting Your Worships<lb></lb>
to issue out a man date or precept to inforce the Statute of Winchester and<lb></lb>
Oblige the Inhabitants to Watch & ward, we, your humble Petrs. big have to<lb></lb>
demonstrate & Offer our Reasons against the said Memorial</p>
<p n="380">Imprimis No notice has been given in the Church that any<lb></lb>
such business was intende to be proposed to the Vestry, & Consequently<lb></lb>
those by whom this resolution was formd, avoided taking the sense of the<lb></lb>
Inhabitants on a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50576_occ68">momentous Affair</rs>
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in which they were nearly concerned<lb></lb>
and a private Vestry obtained the Opportunity of passing a resolution to<lb></lb>
lay a Tax by their own Arbitrary Wills on the whole body of the<lb></lb>
parishioners. But this violation of the undoubled right of the Inhabitants<lb></lb>
we presume mist defeat the measures so unjustly taken; for the want<lb></lb>
of publishing that particular business in the Church, before the holding<lb></lb>
of Such Vestry, we are informed renders the sd. Act of Vestry void & Illegal.</p>
<p n="381">Secondly The said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50576_geo218">Parish of Islington</rs>
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is very large; the<lb></lb>
Houses are not every where contiguous; but lying in different Rows &<lb></lb>
Buildings detasfied from each other; and besides being Accessible behind<lb></lb>
to dishonest Etc East minded people, it would require prodigious<lb></lb>
Number of Watchman, & an immense expence to Grand us in the<lb></lb>
part that lies most exposed to be attached; and we think the number</p>
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