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<p n="839"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40001_geo852">Bawdy house</rs>
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in Colsons Court where the Mistress was making a Row<obscured></obscured>
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of punch for herself and two Women Lodgers, That the said Mr Whinya<obscured></obscured>
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obliged the Headborough and his Watch to stay with him till they<lb></lb>
had drink off the punch being about three Quarts, And at his going<lb></lb>
away the Headborough ask'd Mr Whinyates if he would not pay for<lb></lb>
the Liquor, To which he answered with an Oath, No, No, We never<lb></lb>
pay in such houses as these.</p>
<p n="840"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">3</note>
That another time Mr Whinyates Came about two in the<lb></lb>
Morning to the Watch house at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40001_geo853">St. Gyles's</rs>
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where he found severall<lb></lb>
persons whom the Constable had Secured for breach of the peace,<lb></lb>
and other Disorders, by them Committed and threatned to Commit<lb></lb>
the Constables to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40001_geo854">Newgate</rs>
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and Discharged the prisoners without<lb></lb>
farther Examination.</p>
<p n="841"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">4</note>
That one of the Constables of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40001_geo855">St. Gyles's</rs>
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going thorough Drury<lb></lb>
Lane with some Watchmen met Mr Whinyates, who told them he<lb></lb>
was a Justice of the peace and Commanded them to follow him,<lb></lb>
That as they went up Drury Lane Mr Whinyates laid hold of<lb></lb>
several persons which they met both Men and Women whom,<lb></lb>
he ordered the Constable to secure and to bring them before him<lb></lb>
next Morning The Constable after he had Carried these persons to<lb></lb>
the Watch house, finding most of them to be honest people Going<lb></lb>
about their Lawfull Occasions went the next Morning to two <lb></lb>
Justices of the peace in the parish and desired their directions, Those<lb></lb>
two Justices, then holding a pettit Sessions, sent him the Constable<lb></lb>
to Mr Whinyates to know for what Cause the said persons were in<lb></lb>
Custody, and to desire that he would favour them with his Company<lb></lb>
The Constable delivering that messuage to Mr Whinyates was taken<lb></lb>
into Custody and told that he should be comitted to Newgate for not<lb></lb>
bringing the persons before him According to his Orders, and after<lb></lb>
detaining the Constable above an hour, he sent for another<lb></lb>
Constable, to Convey him to Goal But upon the request of some<lb></lb>
persons then present he discharged him.</p>
<p n="842"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">5</note>
Several Constables Complained that Mr Whinyates since he<lb></lb>
had been a Justice of the peace hath in the Night after the Watch<lb></lb>
was sett so frequently threatned the Watchmen that the Constable<lb></lb>
had reason to apprehend they (the Watchmen) would quit their<lb></lb>
Imployments.</p>
<p n="843">We humbly hope my Lords that the bare recital of these facts<lb></lb>
will Justify our proceedings in laying them before your<lb></lb>
Lordships.</p>
<p n="844">And we beg leave to observe that all these Illegall practices<lb></lb>
of Mr Whinyates have been Comitted by him stuce Commission<lb></lb>
of peace was last Renewed when his Name was first incerted<lb></lb>
into it.</p>
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