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for the Recovery of the Damages Sustained by your
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and Tumultuous Assembly of divers Persons to the
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7th: day of June in the Year of our Lord 1780 and then a
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there unlawfully Feloniously and
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demolishing Seventeen Dwelling houses and two
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That your Petitioners having Declared in such Action the Defendts: Pleaded thereto And the
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Cause being thereupon at Issue the
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on Thursday the 14th: day of February being the Sittings after
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when a Verdict was found for your
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Amount of the Damages so by your Petitioners
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Sustained besides your Petitioners Costs of Suit
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of the said Action and Trial duly and in the usual manner Taxed by the Proper Officer of the said
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Court of Kings Bench and which said Costs have been Taxed and Settled at the Sum of £45.
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day of May Instant duly Obtain & Sign final Judgment
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the Defendts: therein for the said Sums of £1899 and £45 making together the Sum of £1944 being
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the whole Amount of the Damages & Costs so by your Petitioners Sustained in the manner and on
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that Occasion aforesaid which said final Judgment now remains entred up upon Record in full Force in
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their said Judgment so Obtained as aforesaid
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out his
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of Levari Facias in
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Action for the raising & Levying your Petitioners said Damages & Costs And have Pursuant to the
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Statute or Statutes in such Case made Provided delivered the said Writ to the late Sheriffs of the said
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to be by them Presented & delivered to your Worships in Order that your Petitioners
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Damages & Costs may be raised levied & Collected on the Goods & Chattels of the said Inhabitants within
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the said City according to the Directions contained in the said Statute or Statutes.
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and Ancients of the said Society of
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aforesaid the Plaintiffs
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said Action, therefore humbly request your Worships the
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you will immediately
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said Sum of £1944 to be raised Levied and Collected
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on the Inhabitants of the
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And to be afterwards paid to your
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Petitioners the
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being the Persons intitled thereto And that there
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Collected and Paid in such manner and form and by such
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Statute or Statutes
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made & Provided And Particularly the Statutes made
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the 27th: Year of the Reign
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Queen Elizabeth, the first Year of the Reign of King Geo
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the first and the 2d; and the
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2d. years of the Reign of King George the 2d; And that
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will be Pleased to make
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and Grant such Precept and Precepts Order and Orders
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of Sessions for the Purposes aforesaid as to your Worships shall seem meet and
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Proper.
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And your Petitioners shall ever Pray Etc.
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Anthy. Pye
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Principal
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In behalf of the said Society.
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