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By adjournment Thursday 19 May 1768.
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A Petition of several Persons whose names are thereunto subscribed
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Inhabitants of the Parish of
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Saint Paul Shadwell
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and other places adjacent
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in this County being presented to this Court Settingforth That on
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Saturday the Twentieth, and Wednesday the Twenty fourth days of
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February last great Numbers of Coal heavers and other persons assembled
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in a Riotons and Tamultuos manner in the said Parish of Saint Paul
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Shadwell, and beat mained and wounded several Persons who were
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Following their lawfull Occupations and broke the Windows Frames
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and Shutters of many of the Inhabitants, and afterwards beared several
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Ships in the
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River Thames
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and wounded and Cruelly Treated the
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Masters Mates and Seaman on board, on Monday the sixth of March
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following they went to the
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Salutation Tavern
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at Wapping walk
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occupied by the Petitioner
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Thomas metcalf
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and about seven O'Clock in
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the Evening entred the House pulled down the Chimney piece broke
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the Windows China Bowls Decanters and almost every thing else in
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the Bar the said Petitioner having fled from his House for fear of
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being murthered they then with Oaths and Imprecations Demanded
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of the said Petitioners wife the body of the Petitioner whose life they
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swore they were determined to have, That the said Petitioner had a wife
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and six Children who depended intirely on the said Petitioner for their
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support and maintenance which they were deprived of by the
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Petitioners being obliged to absent himself from his said House for
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fear of being murthered on the Seventeenth being Saint Patricks day
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upwards of four hundred of them assembled (headed by one
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Ralph
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Rodgson
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Esquire one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
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County
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of Middlesex
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and acting for that Parish who promised to take them under
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his
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