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AND WHEREAS the said several Damages and Costs of the said several Plaintiffs, so
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recovered as aforesaid, and the said just and necessary Expences of the said several Inha-
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bitants of the said Hundred in defending such Actions, amount together to the Sum of
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Nineteen Thousand Six Hundred and Thirty Pounds Fifteen Shillings.
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We the said
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William Mainwaring
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, and the Reverend Sir
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George Booth
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, Justice as afore-
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said, according to the Directions of the said several Statutes in Such Case made and pro-
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vided, have assessed, taxed, rateably and proportionably, all and every the Towns,
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Parishes, Villages, Hamlets, and Places, as well of the said Hundred as the Liberties
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within the said Hundred, to and towards an equal Contribution to be had and made for
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the Relief of the several Inhabitants of the said Hundred, against whom the said several
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Executions have been obtained, and for Payment thereof, and also for Payment of the
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said several just and necessary Expences which the said Several Inhabitants of the said
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Hundred have been at in defending the several Action aforesaid, and do hereby affets
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and tax
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AND we do hereby require and command you,
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the Constable aforesaid, forthwith rateably and proportionably to Tax and Assess, accord-
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ing to their Abilities, every Inhabitant and Dweller in you said
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for and towards the Payment of such
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as aforesaid, by Us the said
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the Sum of
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Taxation and Assessment, made upon the said
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Justices, and to levy and collect within your said
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above specified, taxed and assessed upon the same as aforesaid, within Thirty Days
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from the Date hereof; and do hereby also further require and command you, within
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Ten Days after you shall have levied and collected the said sum of
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of Taxed as aforesaid, and hereby order to be levied and collected upon the Inhabitants
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and Dwellers in your said to pay and deliver the same by Virtue of this Warrant,
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subject to the Uses an Purposes in the several Statutes relating thereto, mentioned and
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appointed, to the Governor and Company of the
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Bank of England
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, in the joint Names
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of us the said
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William Mainwaring
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and Sir
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George Booth
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, as Justices aforesaid, and
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William
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Gill
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,
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Esquire
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, and
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William Nicholson
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, Esquire, Sheriff of the said
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County of Middlesex
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,
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taking a Receipt or Receipts of the said Governor and Company, or their proper Officer,
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who shall receive the same on their Account; which Receipt or Receipts shall be your
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sufficient Discharge for the Money of paid by you, as aforesaid:
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In Testimony whereof, We the said Justices have hereunto set our Hands and
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Seals, the day of February, in the Year of our Lord
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One thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-two.
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N.B.-By the 27th Eliz. C. 13. S..5. It is enacted, That if any Inhabitant of any such
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Town, Parish, Village, or Hamelet, shall obstinately refuse and deny to pay the said Tax-
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ation and Assessment, so by the said Constables, Constable, Headboroughts, or Headbo-
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rough taxed and assessed, that then it shall and amy be lawful to and for the said Con-
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stables and
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Headboroughs
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, and every of them, within their several Limits and Jurisdictions,
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to distrain all an every Person and Persons so refusing and denying, by his and their
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Goods and Chattles, and the same Distress to sell, and the Money thereof coming to re-
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tain to the Use aforesaid; and if the Goods or Chattles, so distrained and sold, shall be
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of more Value then the said Taxation shall com unto, that then the Residue of the said
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Money, over and above the said Taxation, shall be delivered unto the said Person or
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Persons so distrained.
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By the 8th George II. Cap. 16. S. 10 It is enacted, That if any such Officer or Officers
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who are to levy and collect such Taxations and Assessments as aforesaid, shall refuse or
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neglect to levy and collect the same, within such Time as shall be refuse or neglect to pay
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by the said
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Justices of the Peace
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for their doing thereof, or shall refuse or neglect to pay
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and deliver over the Sums of Money, so levied and collected, to the said Sheriff, and also
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to the said Justices, in such Manner as the same in the several Cases herein before men-
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tioned are respectively directed to be paid, within the respective Times herein before li-
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mited for such Payment thereof, every such Officer shall, for every such Refusal or Neg-
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lect, forfeit double the Sum appointed to be by him levied and collected, as aforesaid.
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