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July 1775
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do suffer the said
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to serve the Respective Prisons under their C
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with bread as aforesaid
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By adjournment same day
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A Petition of
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one of the
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High Constables for the Hundred of Gore being presented to this Court
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Setting forth That he was Sworn into the said Office on the 14th. day of
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September One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Two and has
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Executed the same to the best of his Knowledge and ability and is
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near Sixty Years of Age and a Bricklayer by Trade by which he
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Supports himself and family but having had the misfortune some
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Years ago to break his Leg which ever since has rendered him in
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at times of transacting even his own private Business and prayer of
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to be discharged from the said Office and this Court being satisfied a
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the premises and
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in the sa
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County Gentleman being recommended to this Court by Three
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of his Majestys
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residing in and acting for the
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said Hundred as a fit and proper person to serve the said
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Office This Court doth hereby appoint the sd Thomas Co
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to be one of the High Constables within the said Hundred of Gor
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in the place and Stead of the sd.
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Thomas Nicholl
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being now here in his own proper person in
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and the sd
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Thos. Nicholl
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is hereby absolutely discharged from
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his said Office
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By adjournment same day
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Ordered that the Statutes at Large made & passed
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the Cast Session of Parliament be procured forthwith for the Use of
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this Court
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By adjournment same day
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Ordered that the last Edition of Burns Justice be
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purchased for the use of this Court
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