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of him the said
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Ralph Hodgson
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, as also the many factious & infla-
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matory advertisements and paragraphs, which were inserted in the
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public news papers, about the time of the commencement of the
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said disputes, intimating that the said Ralph Hodgson had taken
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the poor injured coalheavers under his protection, and was deter-
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mined to procure redress of their wrongs, and to defend them
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against their oppressors, did in the apprehension of us his
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Majesty's said Justices afford a ground of Suspicion that the said
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Ralph Hodgson was an Abettor & encourager of the said rioters
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or at least that he connived at the outrages & disorders by th
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from time to time comitted; but that these our suspicions
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now subsided, and are resolved into Conviction, by proof
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to us upon Oath of the following facts vizt.
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That on the 17th Day of March last, being the anniver
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St. Patrick the tutelar Saint of
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, A mob of coalheaver
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and others to the amount of 400 persons & upwards, each of them with a gr
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herb in his hat called a Shamrogge, a badge of distinction con
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ly worn on that day by Irishmen, assembled together, and parad
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thro' the high Streets & public highways of
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in the county aforesaid, with drums beating
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and colours flying.
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That the said Ralph Hodgson
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a native of england, an utter barrister of
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majesty's
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did in his
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own proper person, with one of the said Shamrogges in his hat march
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