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<p n="88"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London to wit<lb></lb>
6 April 1741.</note>
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The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their Oath present. That the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo90">City of London</rs>
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is an Antient<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
and approved in the same at a <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo91">Court of Wardmote</rs>
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held for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo92">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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London to wit in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo93">St. Helen</rs>
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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<lb></lb>
December in the fourteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second King of Great Britain France and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo94">Ireland</rs>
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Defender of the Faith and so forth before Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n88-1">Robert Godschall</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15053_occ41">Knt</rs>
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. then and now one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15053_occ42">Aldermen</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
said City and then and yet Alderman of the said Ward one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n88-2">John Pugett</rs>
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late of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo95">St. Botolph Bishopsgate</rs>
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in the same <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo96">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15053_occ43">Merchant</rs>
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then and long before being an Inhabitant and Resiant within the same Parish<lb></lb>
and Ward and a fit and proper person to execute the Office of Constable within the same Ward was lawfully and in a due<lb></lb>
manner and according to the Custom of the said City and said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo97">Court of Wardmote</rs>
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then and there elected to be one of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15053_occ44">Constables</rs>
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for and within the same Ward for one Year then next ensuring by the Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott<lb></lb>
and bearing Lott within the same Ward whereof the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n88-3">John Pugett</rs>
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afterwards to with on the said twenty second day of<lb></lb>
December in the same Year and at diverse other days and times at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo98">London</rs>
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aforesaid in the same Parish and<lb></lb>
Ward had Notice Nevertheless the said John Pugett little regarding his duty in this behalf but endeavouring<lb></lb>
and intending as much as in him lay totally to binder and retard the due execution of Justice from the said twenty<lb></lb>
second day of December in the same year untill the day of the taking of this Inquisition at the same Parish and<lb></lb>
Ward and upon the same twenty second day of December in the same fourteenth year of our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
Voluntarily obstinately and contemptuously wholly refused denied and neglected to take upon himself and<lb></lb>
execute the said Office of Constable against his said Duty in manifest Contempt and Delay of Justice to the<lb></lb>
bad Example of all others in the like Case offending and against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown<lb></lb>
and Dignity and so forth. And the said Jurors upon their said Oath further present That the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n88-4">John Pugett</rs>
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the same twenty second day of December in the fourteenth year aforesd. and long before and<lb></lb>
always after untill the day of the taking of this Inquisition was inhabiting and resiant and paying Scott and bearing<lb></lb>
Lott within the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo99">St. Botolph Bishopsgate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo100">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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afd and that within the Ward of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo101">Bishopsgate</rs>
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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<lb></lb>
certain Court of our Lord the King now and his Predecessors called the Wardmote held and to be held in every year<lb></lb>
in and upon the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle Unless the said Feast happened to be on a Sunday and in<lb></lb>
such Case upon the day then next following the said Feast before the Alderman of the Ward aforesaid for the time<lb></lb>
being or his Deputy in which said Court according to the Custom within the said Ward for all the time aforesaid<lb></lb>
used and approved to wit in the said Parish of Saint Helen in the Ward aforesaid All the Men inhabting and<lb></lb>
resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott for the time being within the Ward afd have been used accustomed ought and were<lb></lb>
bound by reason of their residence to appear in the said Court and to do their Suit there and in the said Court according<lb></lb>
to the Custom of the said Court yearly for all the time afd the said Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott<lb></lb>
for the time being within the Ward afd were used accustomed and ought to appoint and chuse diverse persons<lb></lb>
then Inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott within the Ward afd Constables in and for the said<lb></lb>
Ward fr the preserving of the Peace of the said Lord the King and for apprehending of Rogues Vagabonds and other<lb></lb>
Suspicious persons within the Ward afd for the Publick Good which sd. Persons so as aforesd. appointed and chosen were<lb></lb>
used accustomed and ought to hold the said Office for the Year then next ensuing and untill another person should<lb></lb>
be elected into their said Office and also were used accustomed and ought on the Monday next after the Feast of<lb></lb>
Epiphany next after their said Election to take their Corporal Oath for the due Execution of their said Office at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo102">Guildhall</rs>
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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<lb></lb>
for all the time afd And that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n88-5">John Pugett</rs>
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the said twenty second day of December in the Fourteenth Year<lb></lb>
afd The same Day being the Day next following the feast of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo103">Saint Thomas the Apostle</rs>
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which said Feast in<lb></lb>
the said Fourteenth year happened to be on a Sunday in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo104">Court of Wardmote</rs>
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then held for the Ward aofresd.</p>
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