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That in order to accomplish such their unlawful & wicked into
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the said rioters fired into the said
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, and drove him to the
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unhappy necessity of defending himself & his house with fire arms
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in the use whereof many of his majesty's Subjects were slain.
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Ralph Hodgson
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one of his majesty's
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justices of the
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for the said county, resides in the said
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Parish of Shadwell
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and Act
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as such justice in a certain room or hall there which he calls a Comitium,
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deriving great advantages & emoluments to himself & his dependents from
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the exercise of his office of a magistrate.
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and without any legal authority for so doing, had for some time before,
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commencement of the said outrages & disorders erected on office for a
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of coalheavers
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, which he attended in person, and from whence for a
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one Shilling each he issued in the name of his Clerk certain printed t
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certifying that the Purchasers therein named respectively had passed
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examination at his said office and importing in consequence thereof a
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liberty for such Purchasors of tickets respectively to use & follow the
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business of coalheaving.
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That the issuing of the tickets aforesaid wrought such effects
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upon the minds of the coalheavers in general that no coalheaver tho'
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ever so peaceably disposed or willing to work, who had not such a T
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for his protection, could without danger of hurt or violence, exercise
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his lawful calling, for that the coalheavers who were registered,
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had procured such tickets as aforesaid, had invented a punishment,
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these who had not, by tying a rope about their bodies and plunging
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them in the
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; which punishment they inflicted with aggra
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