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<p n="371"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">July 1775</note>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo397">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo398">Clerkenwell</rs>
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do suffer the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n371-1">Hester Fosbrooke</rs>
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to serve the Respective Prisons under their C<obscured></obscured>
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with bread as aforesaid</p>
<p n="372">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="373">A Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n373-1">Thomas Nicholl</rs>
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one of the<lb></lb>
High Constables for the Hundred of Gore being presented to this Court<lb></lb>
Setting forth That he was Sworn into the said Office on the 14th. day of<lb></lb>
September One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Two and has<lb></lb>
Executed the same to the best of his Knowledge and ability and is<lb></lb>
near Sixty Years of Age and a Bricklayer by Trade by which he<lb></lb>
Supports himself and family but having had the misfortune some<lb></lb>
Years ago to break his Leg which ever since has rendered him in<obscured></obscured>
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at times of transacting even his own private Business and prayer of<lb></lb>
to be discharged from the said Office and this Court being satisfied a<obscured></obscured>
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the premises and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n373-2">Thomas Coomber</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo399">Kingsbury</rs>
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in the sa<obscured></obscured>
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County Gentleman being recommended to this Court by Three<lb></lb>
of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ157">Justices of the peace</rs>
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residing in and acting for the<lb></lb>
said Hundred as a fit and proper person to serve the said<lb></lb>
Office This Court doth hereby appoint the sd Thomas Co<obscured></obscured>
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to be one of the High Constables within the said Hundred of Gor<obscured></obscured>
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in the place and Stead of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n373-3">Thomas Nicholl</rs>
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and the sd<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n373-4">Thos Coombes</rs>
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being now here in his own proper person in<lb></lb>
Open Cant took his Oath for the due Execution of the sd. Office<obscured></obscured>
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and the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n373-5">Thos. Nicholl</rs>
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is hereby absolutely discharged from<lb></lb>
his said Office</p>
<p n="374">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="375">Ordered that the Statutes at Large made & passed<lb></lb>
the Cast Session of Parliament be procured forthwith for the Use of<lb></lb>
this Court</p>
<p n="376">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="377">Ordered that the last Edition of Burns Justice be <obscured></obscured>
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purchased for the use of this Court</p>
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