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To the Right Honourable The
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of Great Britain.
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The Representation of His Majesty's
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Justices
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of the Peace
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for the
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in
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their General Session Assembled at
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Hicks Hall
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on Thursday the 8th. of Septr. 1768.
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Sheweth.
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That in or about the beginning of the month of February
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last, certain disputes having arisen between the
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employed in the unloading of coals in the
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, and their
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masters, on account of wages, the said coalheavers, upon the
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refusal of the masters to comply with their demands, as being in
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the opinion of the masters, exorbitant and what the trade would not
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bear, unanimously determined to desist from their labour; whereby a
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total Stop was put to the business of unloading coals in the
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That in order to compel the masters of ships & others their
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Employers to comply with their demands, the said coalheavers to the
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number of eight hundred & upwards, chiefly irishmen, did on or about
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the 20th day of the same February, assemble in a riotous & tumultuous
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manner at
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Wapping, Shadwell
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& other places in the county of
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middx
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,
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and commit divers outrages on the persons & dwellings of many of the
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inhabitants then & there resident.
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That the said rioters continued such their unlawful assemblies &
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outrages for several Weeks, thereby spreading terror & consternation
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through the whole eastern quarter of the said county: And on or about
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the 20th. day of April last invested the house of one Green situate in
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or near Wapping, with intent, as they the said rioters declared, to murder him.
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