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<p n="333">the head of the said mob so assembled and did by shouts, acclamation<lb></lb>
and other gestures, inconsistent with the duty & character of a Majistrate<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">16</note>
testify his approbation of, and give countenance to their tumul-<lb></lb>
tuous proceedings; and more particularly, that the said Ralph<lb></lb>
Hodgson, during the said procession, marched at the head of the said<lb></lb>
mob so collected as aforesaid, with a stick or cane in his hand,<lb></lb>
and at the end of every four or five hundred Yards made a half, and<lb></lb>
waived or brandished the said stick or cane over his head several<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">17</note>
times, which signal was from time to time duly answered by the Shouts<lb></lb>
and huzras of the mob so assembled, and who followed at his heels<lb></lb>
in manner aforesaid.</p>
<p n="334">That the riotous and tumultuous procession aforesaid lasted<lb></lb>
for several hours; and that after the same was over, the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50587_n334-1">Ralph<lb></lb>
Hodgson</rs>
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went to a public house at stepney called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo198">spring-gardens</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
together with divers persons who had walk'd with him in the said<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">18</note>
procession, and Spent the remainder of the day and supped with them there</p>
<p n="335">That the several facts above stated, with many others that be<lb></lb>
speak a general in attention in the said Ralph Hodgson, to the preser-<lb></lb>
vation of the public peace, and a shameless prostitution of the office<lb></lb>
and character of a majistrate, were represented to us in our<lb></lb>
general Session of the peace assembled, on the nineteenth day of May<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">19</note>
last, in and by a Petition of a great number of the Inhabitants of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50587_geo199">Shadwell</rs>
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and the parts adjacent men of property and respectable<lb></lb>
characters praying redress of which petition the said Ralph<lb></lb>
Hodgson received due notice together, with a copy thereof and<lb></lb>
end an invitation to attend us the said Justices on thursday the seventh</p>
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