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<p n="330">of him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n330-1">Ralph Hodgson</rs>
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, as also the many factious & infla-<lb></lb>
matory advertisements and paragraphs, which were inserted in the<lb></lb>
public news papers, about the time of the commencement of the<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">12</note>
said disputes, intimating that the said Ralph Hodgson had taken<lb></lb>
the poor injured coalheavers under his protection, and was deter-<lb></lb>
mined to procure redress of their wrongs, and to defend them<lb></lb>
against their oppressors, did in the apprehension of us his<lb></lb>
Majesty's said Justices afford a ground of Suspicion that the said<lb></lb>
Ralph Hodgson was an Abettor & encourager of the said rioters <lb></lb>
or at least that he connived at the outrages & disorders by th<obscured></obscured>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">13</note>
from time to time comitted; but that these our suspicions<obscured></obscured>
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now subsided, and are resolved into Conviction, by proof<obscured></obscured>
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to us upon Oath of the following facts vizt.</p>
<p n="331">That on the 17th Day of March last, being the anniver<obscured></obscured>
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St. Patrick the tutelar Saint of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo192">Ireland</rs>
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, A mob of coalheaver<obscured></obscured>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">14</note>
and others to the amount of 400 persons & upwards, each of them with a gr<obscured></obscured>
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herb in his hat called a Shamrogge, a badge of distinction con<obscured></obscured>
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ly worn on that day by Irishmen, assembled together, and parad<obscured></obscured>
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thro' the high Streets & public highways of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo193">Shadwell</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo194">Ratcliff</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
and the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo195">parish of Stepney</rs>
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in the county aforesaid, with drums beating<lb></lb>
and colours flying.</p>
<p n="332">That the said Ralph Hodgson <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50587_occ111">esquire</rs>
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, tho' not an irishman,<obscured></obscured>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">15</note>
a native of england, an utter barrister of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo196">grays-inn</rs>
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, and one of his<lb></lb>
majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50587_occ112">justices of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo197">county of middlesex</rs>
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did in his<lb></lb>
own proper person, with one of the said Shamrogges in his hat march<obscured></obscured>
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