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<p n="323">That in order to accomplish such their unlawful & wicked into<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">4</note>
the said rioters fired into the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo186">Green's house</rs>
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, and drove him to the<lb></lb>
unhappy necessity of defending himself & his house with fire arms<lb></lb>
in the use whereof many of his majesty's Subjects were slain.</p>
<p n="324">That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n324-1">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50587_occ108">esquire</rs>
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one of his majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50587_occ109">justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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for the said county, resides in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo187">Parish of Shadwell</rs>
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and Act<lb></lb>
as such justice in a certain room or hall there which he calls a Comitium,<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">5</note>
deriving great advantages & emoluments to himself & his dependents from<lb></lb>
the exercise of his office of a magistrate.</p>
<p n="325">That the said Ralph Hodgson with a view to his own private gr<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and without any legal authority for so doing, had for some time before,<lb></lb>
commencement of the said outrages & disorders erected on office for a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50587_occ110">reg<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of coalheavers</rs>
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, which he attended in person, and from whence for a<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">6</note>
one Shilling each he issued in the name of his Clerk certain printed t<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
certifying that the Purchasers therein named respectively had passed<lb></lb>
examination at his said office and importing in consequence thereof a<lb></lb>
liberty for such Purchasors of tickets respectively to use & follow the<lb></lb>
business of coalheaving.</p>
<p n="326">That the issuing of the tickets aforesaid wrought such effects<lb></lb>
upon the minds of the coalheavers in general that no coalheaver tho'<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">7</note>
ever so peaceably disposed or willing to work, who had not such a T<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
for his protection, could without danger of hurt or violence, exercise<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
his lawful calling, for that the coalheavers who were registered,<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
had procured such tickets as aforesaid, had invented a punishment,<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
these who had not, by tying a rope about their bodies and plunging<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">8</note>
them in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo188">river thames</rs>
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; which punishment they inflicted with aggra<obscured></obscured>
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