That in order to accomplish such their unlawful & wicked into

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the said rioters fired into the said Green's house , and drove him to the
unhappy necessity of defending himself & his house with fire arms
in the use whereof many of his majesty's Subjects were slain.

That Ralph Hodgson< no role > This name instance is in set 3684. esquire one of his majesty's justices of the
peace for the said county, resides in the said Parish of Shadwell and Act
as such justice in a certain room or hall there which he calls a Comitium,

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deriving great advantages & emoluments to himself & his dependents from
the exercise of his office of a magistrate.

That the said Ralph Hodgson with a view to his own private gr [..]
and without any legal authority for so doing, had for some time before,
commencement of the said outrages & disorders erected on office for a reg [..]
of coalheavers , which he attended in person, and from whence for a [..]

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one Shilling each he issued in the name of his Clerk certain printed t [..]
certifying that the Purchasers therein named respectively had passed
examination at his said office and importing in consequence thereof a
liberty for such Purchasors of tickets respectively to use & follow the
business of coalheaving.

That the issuing of the tickets aforesaid wrought such effects
upon the minds of the coalheavers in general that no coalheaver tho' [..]

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ever so peaceably disposed or willing to work, who had not such a T [..]
for his protection, could without danger of hurt or violence, exercise [..]
his lawful calling, for that the coalheavers who were registered, [..]
had procured such tickets as aforesaid, had invented a punishment, [..]
these who had not, by tying a rope about their bodies and plunging

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them in the river thames ; which punishment they inflicted with aggra [..]