Middlesex Sessions:
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April 1757

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and return to the several Justices of the peace the hands
and places of abode of such persons as shall for the future
presume to Lodge or Harbour Beggars in their Houses or
other Buildings in order to their Conviction and
punishment as the said acts Directs and this Court doth
recomend it to the several magistrates to Reward such
persons as shall be active and Diligent in their Duty as by the
said act they are impowered and all Constables and others
Injoyned to put the said act in Execution are to take notice
that they will be presecuted for their negligence or refusal
so to do with the Utmost severity of the Law And to
prevent any parish peace officer or other person required
to put the said act in Execution pleading ignorance in the
premisses [..] It is Ordered that the Clerk of
the peace do cause a sufficient number of Copys hereof
to be forthwith printed and by the Cryer of this Court to be
sent to the Justices of the peace and High Constables of the
Several Divisions within this County for the better




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