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That in a about the Month of August last your
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Petitioners dwelling house being laid open by reason of
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the adjoining House being pulled down your Petitioner and
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his Wife and Children were obliged to take a temporary
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Lodging at
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and to sleep there until the said
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adjoining House should be rebuilt, but nevertheless your
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Petitioners Business still continued to be carried on in
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his said dwelling house in
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aforesaid, where
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your Petitions, continued with his
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Journeymen
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and
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Apprentices every day in the conduding and managing
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his said Business, and where his apprentices still
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continued on Lodge.
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That your Petitioners Property being much exposed by
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means of the party Wall being pulled dour, your Petitioner
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gave strict orders to his said Apprentice in the absence of
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your petitioner to stay at home and not absent himself
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from your Petitioners said dwelling house. that notwithstanding
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your Petitioners order the said
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John Horrod
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the Younger left
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the said dwelling House one Evening in the month of
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September last and Locked up the Street door without your
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Petitioners leave, and upon your, Petitioners Return home
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about Eight o'clock in the same Evening he found the Street
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door Cocked and no person within the said Dwelling house
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That your Petitioner after waiting some time at the Street
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door, and not being able to get admittance thereat, after
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got into his said dwelling house this the temporary Horde
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erected in front of the adjacent House, and found a Candle
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which had been left burning by his said
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. That
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your Petitioners continued in his said dwelling house after
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he had so got in as aforesaid until half past Eleven
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