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<p n="226">By adjournment Thursday 19 May 1768.</p>
<p n="227">A Petition of several Persons whose names are thereunto subscribed<lb></lb>
Inhabitants of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50583_geo236">Saint Paul Shadwell </rs>
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and other places adjacent<lb></lb>
in this County being presented to this Court Settingforth That on<lb></lb>
Saturday the Twentieth, and Wednesday the Twenty fourth days of<lb></lb>
February last great Numbers of Coal heavers and other persons assembled <lb></lb>
in a Riotons and Tamultuos manner in the said Parish of Saint Paul<lb></lb>
Shadwell, and beat mained and wounded several Persons who were<lb></lb>
Following their lawfull Occupations and broke the Windows Frames <lb></lb>
and Shutters of many of the Inhabitants, and afterwards beared several<lb></lb>
Ships in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50583_geo237">River Thames</rs>
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and wounded and Cruelly Treated the<lb></lb>
Masters Mates and Seaman on board, on Monday the sixth of March<lb></lb>
following they went to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50583_geo238">Salutation Tavern</rs>
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at Wapping walk <lb></lb>
occupied by the Petitioner <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50583_n227-1">Thomas metcalf</rs>
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and about seven O'Clock in<lb></lb>
the Evening entred the House pulled down the Chimney piece broke<lb></lb>
the Windows China Bowls Decanters and almost every thing else in<lb></lb>
the Bar the said Petitioner having fled from his House for fear of<lb></lb>
being murthered they then with Oaths and Imprecations Demanded<lb></lb>
of the said Petitioners wife the body of the Petitioner whose life they<lb></lb>
swore they were determined to have, That the said Petitioner had a wife<lb></lb>
and six Children who depended intirely on the said Petitioner for their<lb></lb>
support and maintenance which they were deprived of by the <lb></lb>
Petitioners being obliged to absent himself from his said House for<lb></lb>
fear of being murthered on the Seventeenth being Saint Patricks day<lb></lb>
upwards of four hundred of them assembled (headed by one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50583_n227-2">Ralph <lb></lb>
Rodgson</rs>
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Esquire one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50583_geo239">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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and acting for that Parish who promised to take them under<lb></lb>
his</p>
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