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<p n="656">To the Worshipful Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50629_n656-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50629_occ190">Chairman</rs>
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of the Sessions held at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50629_geo476">Hicks<lb></lb>
Hall</rs>
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and other his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50629_occ191">Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace</rs>
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acting in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50629_geo477">County of <lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="657">The humble Petition of the Commissioners for<lb></lb>
paving Repairing Cleansing Draining Lighting and<lb></lb>
Watching that part of the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50629_geo478">Saint Sepulchre</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that is and lieth in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50629_geo479">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and for <lb></lb>
removing Annoyances and Obstructions therefrom<lb></lb>
and preventing the like for the future Etc</p>
<p n="658"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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<p n="659">That your Petitioners in pursuance of an Act<lb></lb>
Parliament lately made and passed are cause in<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and Carriage ways within the same to be new paved a<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
otherwise improved at a very considerable expence to <lb></lb>
the Inhabitants thereof for the benefit and accomodation<lb></lb>
of the publick in general</p>
<p n="660">That the present Watch House situate in the center<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50629_geo480">St John Street</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50629_geo481">Smithfield Bars</rs>
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is not only a <lb></lb>
every great Nuisance of itself and a harbour for all<lb></lb>
manner of Filth and Rubbish but also unfit for the <lb></lb>
purpose being to small to hold above five persons at <lb></lb>
most and without any place whatever for securing<lb></lb>
disorderly persons in that may be apprehended or<lb></lb>
given in Charge to the Constable or Headborough of <lb></lb>
the Night who are obliged to send them to Prison until<lb></lb>
they can be carried before a Majestrate the next day</p>
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