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<p n="327">circumstances of violence and want on in humanity on such of<lb></lb>
their improtected brethren as dared to work and as they could lay<lb></lb>
hands on.</p>
<p n="328">That exclusive of the other mischiefs which followed the<lb></lb>
erecting of the said office, the Scheme of the said Ralph<lb></lb>
Hodgson for such an institution, had in the first conception<lb></lb>
thereof, a tendency to defeat the purposes of an act of Parlia-<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">9</note>
ment made and passed in the 31st. Year of the reign of his late<lb></lb>
Majesty king George the 2d. which established a registry for coal-<lb></lb>
heavers at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo189">Shadwell</rs>
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aforesaid, and comitted the government, care<lb></lb>
and management thereof, to the alderman of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo190">Billingsgate</rs>
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Ward in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo191">city<lb></lb>
of london</rs>
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for the time being, and had also furnished the said alderman<lb></lb>
and certain other persons therein directed to be chosen, with ample power<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">10</note>
& authorities for the purpose of making a registry of coalheavers, an<lb></lb>
institution of public benefit; and that the provident intentions of the<lb></lb>
legislature in this respect, and the endeavours of these employed<lb></lb>
in the execution of the said act, were actually defeated, is evident from the<lb></lb>
consequences of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n328-3">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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's interposition, which were<lb></lb>
a total defection from, and desertion of the former legally established<lb></lb>
office, and a numerous resort & frequent application of coalheavers<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">11</note>
and others to this new one set up by him of his own mere motion<lb></lb>
and without any warrant authority or sanction whatsoever.</p>
<p n="329">That the facts above stated together with the notorious Inactivity<lb></lb>
& supineness, with regard to any measures for quelling the riots aforesd.</p>
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