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That the business of the Old Baily may meet delay for
want of a sufficient Number to make a Court which would be an
Inconvenience to hisMajestysSubjects who are obliged to attend
and presents their severall Indictments against Offenders
and some times an Lordship upon the prisoners

Answer 5

It is supposed in this Paragraph, that a Delay of Justice may
happen to the prejudice of the Prosecutors & the prisoners for
want of competent Number; But'tis presumed that the
Gentlemen who have averred this possibility of an Inconvenience
will not say that it over has happened, Or that it is even
probable, That a sufficient Number can be wanting (as it
is Ordered) to carry on the business of the Comission.

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That some of the Justices of the Peace of this County were
formerly (& till lately) put into the Comission of Goal Delivery
the discontinuance of which we apprehend to be the cause
of the ill treatment & bad accomodacon we have of late
Years met with

Answer 6

That some Gentlemen Justices of his Peace were put
into the Comission of Goal Delivery at the Letter end of King
Charles's Reign & in King James's Reign is true, But as that
contributed to the Arbitrary and illegall purposes then
carrying on, And as ever since the Revolution such a
practice has been discontinued, Tis hoped no such Instances
will have wright with your Lordship to revive any such
practice then dangerous & now unnecessary. What is meant
by the ill treatment and bad accomodation lately met with
which is laid to the discontinuance of putting in Justices of
the peace into this Comission, is as much in the dark (as the
other methods lately used to make the Justices uneasy;
And till Explained cannot be sett in a true light

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That as we have not been wanting in our respective
Stations to use our utmost diligence & endeavors in the
service of his Majesty & his Government, And have already
done And shall continue to do all that is in our power to
establish the Reputation of our Comission so we hope
That the Comission shall have the same Concitenance and
Encouragement it formerly enjoyed in the time of our
predecessors And we beg leave to assume your Lordship