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6 April 1741.
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The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their Oath present. That the
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City and that according to the Custom of the said City from the time whereof the Memory of Man is not to the contrary used
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and approved in the same at a
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in the said Ward according to the said Custom of the said City and Court aforesaid on the twenty second day of
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December in the fourteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second King of Great Britain France and
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Defender of the Faith and so forth before Sr.
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Robert Godschall
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. then and now one of the
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Aldermen
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of the
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said City and then and yet Alderman of the said Ward one
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John Pugett
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in the same
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then and long before being an Inhabitant and Resiant within the same Parish
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and Ward and a fit and proper person to execute the Office of Constable within the same Ward was lawfully and in a due
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manner and according to the Custom of the said City and said
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then and there elected to be one of the
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for and within the same Ward for one Year then next ensuring by the Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott
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and bearing Lott within the same Ward whereof the said
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afterwards to with on the said twenty second day of
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December in the same Year and at diverse other days and times at
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aforesaid in the same Parish and
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Ward had Notice Nevertheless the said John Pugett little regarding his duty in this behalf but endeavouring
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and intending as much as in him lay totally to binder and retard the due execution of Justice from the said twenty
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second day of December in the same year untill the day of the taking of this Inquisition at the same Parish and
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Ward and upon the same twenty second day of December in the same fourteenth year of our said Lord the King
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Voluntarily obstinately and contemptuously wholly refused denied and neglected to take upon himself and
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execute the said Office of Constable against his said Duty in manifest Contempt and Delay of Justice to the
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bad Example of all others in the like Case offending and against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown
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and Dignity and so forth. And the said Jurors upon their said Oath further present That the said
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the same twenty second day of December in the fourteenth year aforesd. and long before and
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always after untill the day of the taking of this Inquisition was inhabiting and resiant and paying Scott and bearing
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Lott within the said Parish of
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aforesaid there is and from the time whereof the Memory of Man is not to the contrary there hath been a
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certain Court of our Lord the King now and his Predecessors called the Wardmote held and to be held in every year
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in and upon the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle Unless the said Feast happened to be on a Sunday and in
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such Case upon the day then next following the said Feast before the Alderman of the Ward aforesaid for the time
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being or his Deputy in which said Court according to the Custom within the said Ward for all the time aforesaid
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used and approved to wit in the said Parish of Saint Helen in the Ward aforesaid All the Men inhabting and
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resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott for the time being within the Ward afd have been used accustomed ought and were
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bound by reason of their residence to appear in the said Court and to do their Suit there and in the said Court according
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to the Custom of the said Court yearly for all the time afd the said Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott
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for the time being within the Ward afd were used accustomed and ought to appoint and chuse diverse persons
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then Inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott within the Ward afd Constables in and for the said
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Ward fr the preserving of the Peace of the said Lord the King and for apprehending of Rogues Vagabonds and other
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Suspicious persons within the Ward afd for the Publick Good which sd. Persons so as aforesd. appointed and chosen were
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used accustomed and ought to hold the said Office for the Year then next ensuing and untill another person should
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be elected into their said Office and also were used accustomed and ought on the Monday next after the Feast of
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Epiphany next after their said Election to take their Corporal Oath for the due Execution of their said Office at the
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of the said City in the Court there held before the Mayor and Aldermen of the said City for the time being
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for all the time afd And that the said
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the said twenty second day of December in the Fourteenth Year
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afd The same Day being the Day next following the feast of
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which said Feast in
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the said Fourteenth year happened to be on a Sunday in the said
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