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11th. Novr. 1728</p>
<p n="1008"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Letter from the Lord<lb></lb>
Viscount Townshend<lb></lb>
Principal Secretary of<lb></lb>
State touching the<lb></lb>
Defending of Accons<lb></lb>
brought against Constables<lb></lb>
Etc for Searching after<lb></lb>
Felons Etc at the Kings<lb></lb>
Expence</note>
Sir<lb></lb>
It having been Represented to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n1008-1">His Majesty</rs>
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, that<lb></lb>
the Constables in the Out parts of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1041">City of London</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
and of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1042">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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, lying<lb></lb>
within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1043">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, are discouraged<lb></lb>
from Executing the Warrants of His Majestyes<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1462">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County by the<lb></lb>
Vexations Actions and Suits at Law brought<lb></lb>
against them for Searching Houses where Felons<lb></lb>
and other disorderly Persons, resort, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n1008-2">His Majesty</rs>
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has commanded me to acquaint you, that Orders<lb></lb>
Shall be given to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1463">Sollicitor of His Treasury</rs>
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to defend, at His Majestys Expence all Constables<lb></lb>
and other Peace Officers of the said County in the<lb></lb>
Parts adjacent to London and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1044">Westminster</rs>
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, in any<lb></lb>
Actions or Suits at Law that may be brought or<lb></lb>
commenced against any of them for what they<lb></lb>
shall have done in the due and faithfull Discharge<lb></lb>
of the Duty of their respective Offices, by putting in<lb></lb>
Execution the Warrants issued to them by the Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the purposes above mentioned; of<lb></lb>
which you will please to take Care, that Notice be<lb></lb>
given them, that the Apprehension of Trouble<lb></lb>
and Expense on this Account may no longer<lb></lb>
be a Hindrance to the Carrying on of a<lb></lb>
service so Important to the Peace and<lb></lb>
Security of His Majestys Subjects, and which<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n1008-3">His Majesty</rs>
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, out of His great Goodness to them<lb></lb>
is graciously pleased to have so much at<lb></lb>
Heart.I am Sir,</p>
<p n="1009">Your most humble Servant<lb></lb>
Townshend</p>
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