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<p n="507">At a Meeting Etc of his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ700">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo803">Middlesex</rs>
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At Hicks Hall in Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo804">John Street</rs>
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in the County aforesd.<lb></lb>
On Monday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55603_date89">Eighth Day of March 1756</rs>
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Pursuant to an<lb></lb>
Advertizement incerted in the Daily Advertiser and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo805">St. James's</rs>
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Evening<lb></lb>
Post of Saturday last.</p>
<p n="508">The Chairman Communicated to the Gentleman Assembled a Letter<lb></lb>
from the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council to his Grace<lb></lb>
the Duke of Newcastle.</p>
<p n="509">Ordered That the said Letter be Read And the Same was read<lb></lb>
accordingly.</p>
<p n="510">Ordered That the Form of a Warrant be Drawn in Pursuance of the<lb></lb>
said Letter which was accordingly drawn and the same was approved of.</p>
<p n="511">Ordered That the Letter now Read be Entered in the Publick Book of<lb></lb>
Orders of this Court.</p>
<p n="512">Ordered That a Copy of the Above Letter be transmitted to the Principal<lb></lb>
Clerk of Each Division in this County together with a Sufficient Number of Warrants<lb></lb>
new Settled to be Made Use of for the Purposes in the said Letter Mentioned.</p>
<p n="513">Ordered That the Justices in Each Division do forthwith hold a Special<lb></lb>
Session within their several Divisions and Continue the Same from time to time<lb></lb>
more Effectually to Put in Execution the Directions of the said Letter And that<lb></lb>
the said Justices do make a Return of their several Proceedings herein Upon<lb></lb>
the Next County Day in the Next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held<lb></lb>
for this County in Order to be transmitted to the Lords of his Majesties most<lb></lb>
Honourable Privy Council according to the Directions of the said Letter.</p>
<p n="514">After our very hearty Commendations to Your Grace<lb></lb>
Whereas We did by Our Letter of the Sixth of February 1755<lb></lb>
Signifie unto Your Grace his Majesty's Commands to Call upon the Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace within the County of Middlesex whereof Your Grace is Custes<lb></lb>
Rotatorur and to Enjoyn and require them to Cause all Stragling Seamen<lb></lb>
fit to Serve on Board his Majestys Ships to be taken up and Sent by Proper<lb></lb>
Persons in Order to be Put On Board the Fleet, Yet not with standing the<lb></lb>
Same there is at this time a Great Want of Seamen for his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Service Altho' there is the Strongest Reason to Apprehend that great Numbers<lb></lb>
of Seamen and Seafaring Men are still Larking about in different Parts<lb></lb>
of the said County in Order to Avoid his Majesties Service And Whereas</p>
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