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Thomas Abbott
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(who is likewise a
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James Thurgar
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(who
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is the
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of the said Justice in the Capacity of
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looking after his Horse, Cleaning his Knives, and Shoes, and
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such like employment) to execute his Warrant, which they
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accordingly do
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That Your Memoralists are greatly Aggrieved,
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by these Sort of People being employed in manner above Set
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forth, inasmuch as they, under the Idea of being Peace Officers,
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frequently obstruct Your Memoralists, in the Execution of their
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Duty, and have taken some of the Peace Officers duly Sworn
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in at the Court Leet, and carried them before the said
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Penleaze
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, under various idle pretences, And when Persons taken
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up by the Peace Officers, on a General Privy Search, have been
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discharged by the Magistrates, the said Justices pretended Officers
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have caused some of the Persons so discharged, to apply to the
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said Justice, for his Warrant against the Peace Officers duly
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appointed, for having so taken them up, which his Worship
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has accordingly granted;
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That Your Memoralists humbly conceive that the
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Swearing in by the said Justice of the said
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Jonathan Waters
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(who was then and Still is a Victualler) is directly contrary to
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a Standing Order of Sessions contained in folio 15, of Your
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Worships Orders, And that not only the Swearing in of the
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said
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(who lives in another Parish) but
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also the Swearing in of the said
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Henry Britt
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by a Justice
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out of Sessions, is repugrant to Law, And the directing of
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Warrants Specially, to a
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, & likewise
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to a
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of the said Justice, affords great
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