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<p n="253">To His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50875_occ62">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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Acting in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50875_geo147">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="254">May it please your Worships.</p>
<p n="255">Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50875_n255-1">Timothy Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50875_occ63">Oilman</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50875_geo148">Red Lion Street</rs>
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, in the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50875_geo149">St: John's Clerkenwell</rs>
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having<lb></lb>
been duly chosen Headborough according to the usual custom:<lb></lb>
and it not buing convenient to serve the said Office himself: he<lb></lb>
proposed one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50875_n255-2">William Weaver</rs>
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: to serve as his Substitute.</p>
<p n="256">We are of opinion that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50875_n256-1">William Weaver</rs>
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is a very<lb></lb>
unfit: and an improper person, to fill the said Office: neither<lb></lb>
does he reside within St John's district.</p>
<p n="257">We doubt not, but should your worships be pleas'd to<lb></lb>
make inquiry into his character, and conduct sufficient causes<lb></lb>
will appear, why he ought not to be continued in the said Office<lb></lb>
altho he has so far obtained as to be Sworn in for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50875_geo150">Liberty<lb></lb>
& St John's Clerkenwell</rs>
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by Mr Justice Clarke.</p>
<p n="258">We do therefore most humbly submit to your<lb></lb>
worships the consideration of the premises.</p>
<p n="259"> June 29th<lb></lb>
1792.</p>
<p n="260">R: Palmer<lb></lb>
C: Weaver}<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50875_occ64">Church Warden</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50875_geo151">St Johns</rs>
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<p n="261">J: Drury<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50875_n261-1">Wm Cowland</rs>
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Sides Men<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50875_geo152">St Johns</rs>
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