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<p n="583">To the Worshipfull, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50763_n583-1">Willm Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50763_occ269">Esq</rs>
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Chairman;<lb></lb>
and the Other of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50763_occ270">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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, for the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50763_geo812">Middx</rs>
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; assembled at their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace,<lb></lb>
held in & for the said County. the 16th. day of January 1783.</p>
<p n="584">May it Please your Worships,<lb></lb>
I most humbly begg Leave to be Permitted to Offer myself a Candidate<lb></lb>
to be Appointed Governour of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50763_geo813">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50763_geo814">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the Place<lb></lb>
of Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50763_n584-1">James Crozier</rs>
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resigned.</p>
<p n="585">My having been <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50763_occ271">in the Commission of the Peace</rs>
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for this County, upward<lb></lb>
of Twelve years (& I flatter myself Acted therein with reputation) Emboldens me<lb></lb>
to Offer myself a Candidate for the above Office, as it may be presumed I must<lb></lb>
trave a Competent knowledge, of all the Laws, Orders, Rules, & Regulations, that<lb></lb>
may be Necessary for the well Governing & Manageing the same.</p>
<p n="586">If this my Application should prove Successfull<obscured></obscured>
Pledge myself<lb></lb>
that It shall ever be my Constant Care & Study, to see that all Orders, Rules, &<lb></lb>
Regulations, that are, or may be made, for the well ordering, & Governing<lb></lb>
thereof to be Strictly Enforced & Obeyd, & Every duty of the Office Executed<lb></lb>
with the Greatest Diligence & Care, & at the same time Act with Humanity<lb></lb>
to the Unhappy Objects Committed to my Care & C<obscured></obscured>
harge.</p>
<p n="587">And Am,<lb></lb>
your Worships,<lb></lb>
Most Obedient Humble Servant,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50763_n587-1">John Walford</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="588"> <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50763_occ272">Constitution</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50763_occ272" type="occupation" value="Constitution"></interp>
Row Gray Inn<lb></lb>
Lane Road Jany. 16. 1783}</p>
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