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Informacon being made into me xn [..] Sr. Thomas Abney< no role > Knt . & Alderman one of his Majestys
Justices of the Peace for the Citty of London the Tenth day of December in the Sixth year of ye Reigne
of our Sovereigne Lord King George of Great Brittaine xl Annoqr Donn one thousand seven
hundred & nineteen by John Liege< no role > of the Pish of St. Mary Magdalen Milkstreet London
Merchant That Jonathan Castledine< no role > of the Pish of St. Bartholomew the Little near the
Royall Exchange London Master Taylor on the Twentieth day of November last past in
the said parish of St. Bartholomew the little near the Royall Exchange contrary to the
from of the Statute made at Westmr. in the fourth year of the reigne of our Sovereigne
Lord King George intitled an Act for makeing more effectuall an Act made in the Eighth
year of the reigne of the late Queen Anne Intituled An Act for imploying the Manufacturers
by encourageing the Consumption of Raw Silk and Mohair Yarn then & for a long
time before being a Taylor and useing & exerciseing the said trade Did cause to
be made sett on, used & bound on severall Clothes & wearing Garments that were
not velvett Thirteen dozen of Buttons made of Clark broad cloth and thirteen dozen
of button holes made of black broad cloth and that clothes or wearing Garments
are usually made of broad cloth And that the said Jonathan Castledine< no role > for causeing
to be made the said Cloths and wearing Garments as aforesaid was entitled to the
moneys for makeing the said Clothes & wearing Garments And the said Jonathan
Castledine
< no role > being duely summones to appear and Answer the said Informacon
before me at my house in Lymestreet within the said Citty of London the Seventeenth
day of the aforesaid Month of December and the said Jonathan Castledine< no role > then &
there accordingly appearing and the truth of all the premisses in the said Informacon
then & there being made appeare unto me upon the Oath of William Swords< no role > of the
parish of St. Pauls Covent Garden in the County of Middx Taylor a Credible
witness duely sworn & examined by me according to the Act of Parhament in that
case lately made & provided and upon hearing the said Jonathan Castledine< no role > what
he could say in defence of himselfe concerning the same and not being able to
acquitt himselfe from the said charge or any part thereof J. doe adjudge him
guilty of the said severall offences in the said Informacon menconed and doe
convict him thereof and alsoe adjudge that he forfeit & pay the sume of Forty
shillings of lawfull money of Greate Brittaine for every dozen of button and
button holes respectively soe by him as aforesaid caused to be made bound &
sett on to the said Clothes and wearing Garments amounting in the whole to the
sume of Two ane fifty pounds one moyety thereof to the said John Liege who
hath informed & prosecuted for the same and the other moyety to ye overseers
of the poor of the said parish of St. Bartholomew the Little near the Royall
Exchange where the said severall offences were discovered In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto sett my Hand & Seale the said Seventeenth day of
December in the Sixth year of the King Etc

Tho Abney< no role >




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