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the head of the said mob so assembled and did by shouts, acclamation
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and other gestures, inconsistent with the duty & character of a Majistrate
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testify his approbation of, and give countenance to their tumul-
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tuous proceedings; and more particularly, that the said Ralph
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Hodgson, during the said procession, marched at the head of the said
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mob so collected as aforesaid, with a stick or cane in his hand,
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and at the end of every four or five hundred Yards made a half, and
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waived or brandished the said stick or cane over his head several
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times, which signal was from time to time duly answered by the Shouts
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and huzras of the mob so assembled, and who followed at his heels
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in manner aforesaid.
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That the riotous and tumultuous procession aforesaid lasted
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for several hours; and that after the same was over, the said
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went to a public house at stepney called
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together with divers persons who had walk'd with him in the said
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procession, and Spent the remainder of the day and supped with them there
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That the several facts above stated, with many others that be
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speak a general in attention in the said Ralph Hodgson, to the preser-
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vation of the public peace, and a shameless prostitution of the office
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and character of a majistrate, were represented to us in our
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general Session of the peace assembled, on the nineteenth day of May
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last, in and by a Petition of a great number of the Inhabitants of
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and the parts adjacent men of property and respectable
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characters praying redress of which petition the said Ralph
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Hodgson received due notice together, with a copy thereof and
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end an invitation to attend us the said Justices on thursday the seventh
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