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of Waggons & Other Carriages passing by at all House of the Night,
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together with the Milk People, and the help of our present Patrole, Lights
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and watchman, maintained by Voluntary subscription, a full & Sufficient
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Defence against any Attacks from the Street
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Thirdly, Many of The Houses of the said Village are old and
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un fashionable the roomy & proper for Letting out Lodgings and tenanted
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by persons in years, Particularly by many of the tendes Sex, who have
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formerly known better times but now are reduced by the Calamities incident
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to human Life; to earn their livelihood by their some & laborious
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method of Setting out Lodgings, who if this Act was to be enforced would
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be greatly distressed, as their other taxes within these Six years last past,
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and very nearly double what they were before.
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Fourthly we, are informed that no legal pound Rate can be
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Assessed on a particular part of the Parish, and if this Tax be lard on the
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whole parish including Holloway, Hornsey Lane,
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Newington
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Kingsland Green
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Etc. the Inhabitants of those parts of the Parish who
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would not receive the last benefit themselves must contrary to all the Rule's
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of Equity be taxed to Guard the worthy Gentry of the
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Village of Islington
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Fifthly, many of the Constable & Head boroughs some
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times happen to live at the distance of between three & four miles
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Watch house, Etc it would be a piece of great Injustices as
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well as Cruetly & Barbarily to force them to leave their families in
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all Weather merely for the Service of
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with which they have
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little concern, Yet if they were excused, the duty would fall too
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offer on those in this Village as the Number of
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