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By adjornment on Thursday the
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16th. Day of January 1745
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Thomas Burdus
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Samuel Tatem
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William Withers
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. and others.
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Order appointing Mr.
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Tho: Dowswell High
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Constable within the
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Hundred of Gore
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in
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stead of Mr. William
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Coomes.}
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Upon the humble Petition of William Coomes High
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within the Hundred of Gore in the County of Middx
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exhibited unto this Court Setting forth that he hath severed the
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said Office of
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High Constable
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for the Space of three years &
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upwards And that he hath discharged and paid all publick
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moneys to the Treasurer of the Said County, And that the
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Petitioner having extraordinary Affairs of his own to
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transact and do humbly prays this Court to dismiss him
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from the said Office of
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, This Court being
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Satisfied of the truth of the Premisses Doth appoint Thomas
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Dowswell
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of
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Hendon
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within the Said Hundred in the County
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aforesaid
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. to be
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within the said Hundred
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to
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in the place and Stead of the Said
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William Coomes
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And doth Order that the Said
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Thomas Dowswell
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do forthwith
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(after Notice given to him of this Order) attend
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John Nicoll
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Joseph Taylor
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and
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Thomas Moore
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three of his
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Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this County or one of
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them or some other
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for the said County
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residing in or near the said Hundred, And that the Said
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Thomas Dowswell
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do forthwith before the said three Justices
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or one of them or other Justice as aforesaid take his Oath for
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his due Execution of the Office of
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within the
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Gore
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, And from and after the time of his
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having taken such Oath the Said
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William Coomes
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is to
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stand absolutely discharged from being
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within the Said Hundred.
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