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By adjournment same Day
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Certain Returns made in pursuance of an Order of the Court
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of the General Session of the Peace of the 19th day of February last
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by
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all within this County concerning
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there Trouble and the expences incurred by them in the execution
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of certain Orders of Court for suppressing Rist Routs and
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unlawfull assemblies or other breach of the Public Peace within
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their respective Divisions in the month of February last being
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laid before this Court and the same being read and it appearing
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as well by the said returns as by the testimony of Several of
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his Majesty's Justice of the Peace now here present that the said High
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Constables had been very vigilant in the execution of the said
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Orders that one of them had Suffered in his person and that all
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of them had incurred a considerable expence in keeping their
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respective Petty Constable together and to their Duty in the said
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Service
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Resolved that the Chairman be requested to lay the said
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Returns before the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Weymouth
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one of his Majesty's Principle Secretaries of State, and Sollicit his Lordship
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to make the said High Constable such pecuniary recompence
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for their diligence activity, trouble and expences in such service
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as to his Lordship Shall seem meet
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By adjournment Same day
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The Chairman having laid before the Court a
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the following
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Letter,
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recommending on the Ground of full
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Convenience In Opening at
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ence he the intended
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Sessions
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from the
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Harpur Street 27th
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West
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end of the Town
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Tho's I am Personally a Stranger to Sr
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John Hawkins
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Yet I hope the Subject I am going to in produce, will serve as
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an apology for the Liberty I am taking
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