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Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50208_n64-1">John Snow</rs>
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one of the Officers of his Majestys<lb></lb>
Customs in the post of London did lately exhibite an<lb></lb>
Informacon before me one of his Majestys Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace for the sd. County agt. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50208_n64-2">Francis Sirr</rs>
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of the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50208_geo21">St.<lb></lb>
Clements Danes</rs>
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for that the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50208_n64-4">Francis Sirr</rs>
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did on the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50208_date13">fifteenth<lb></lb>
day of Augt. last</rs>
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past receive into his Custody at his house behind<lb></lb>
St. Clements a pcell of Rice that had been clandestinely run<lb></lb>
on Shore with out payment of Customs he the sd. Sirr knowing<lb></lb>
the same to be clandestinely run And Whereas the sd. Francis<lb></lb>
Sirr was duely sumoned to appear before me to Answer and make<lb></lb>
his defence to the sd. Informacon at the time and place in the<lb></lb>
said sumons appointed and the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50208_n64-5">Francis Sirr</rs>
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having<lb></lb>
appeared accordingly and upon hearing <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50208_n64-3">James Reynolds</rs>
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<lb></lb>
upon Oath on behalfe of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50208_n64-6">John Snow</rs>
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who deposed that<lb></lb>
at the time of seizing the sd. Rice the sd Sirr Confessed he caused the same<lb></lb>
to be brought from on board a Ship without payment of<lb></lb>
Duty and likewise the sd. Francis Sirr who also confessed before<lb></lb>
me that he did on the sd. <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50208_date14">15th day of Augt</rs>
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. receive in to his<lb></lb>
Custody two hundred and three qrs. of Rice which he had<lb></lb>
caused to be clandestinely imported contrary to Law<lb></lb>
I therefore according to the forme of the Statute made in<lb></lb>
the seventh year of the Reigne of his prsent Majesty<lb></lb>
Intituled an Act for repealing an Act made in the ninth<lb></lb>
year of the Reigne of her late Majesty Queen Anne<lb></lb>
Intituled an Act to oblige Ships coming from places<lb></lb>
infected more effectually to pform their Quarentine And<lb></lb>
for the bettr. prventing the plague being brought from<lb></lb>
Forreigne Parts into Great Britaine or Ireland or the Isles<lb></lb>
of Guernsey Jersey Aldering Sarbor or Man and to hinder<lb></lb>
the Spreading of Infeccon Do hereby adjudge and Convict<lb></lb>
the sd. Francis Sirr as Guilty knowingly of the Offence<lb></lb>
aforesd. whereby he hath forfeited the sume of ten pounds<lb></lb>
one Moyety thereof to the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50208_n64-7">John Snow</rs>
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and the other</p>
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