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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo10">Westminster</rs>
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4th. July 1780</p>
<p n="9"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo11">Middlesex</rs>
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& <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo12">Westminster</rs>
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Committee</p>
<p n="10">At a Meeting of the Committee appointed by the Lord Lieutenant<lb></lb>
Deputy Lieutenants, and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50735_occ2">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo13">County of Middlesex</rs>
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&<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo14">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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, to consider of the most effectual means<lb></lb>
to provide for the better Defence and security of the said County City &<lb></lb>
Liberty held this Day at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo15">Guildhall</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo16">Westminster</rs>
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; His Grace the Duke<lb></lb>
of Northumberland having suggested to the Meeting that for the preservation<lb></lb>
of Peace and good order therein; it has become necessary to put the Civil<lb></lb>
Paver upon a more effectual Establishment, The Committee were<lb></lb>
unanimously of Opinion that until a proper Plan<del>be fo<obscured></obscured>
</del>
for that<lb></lb>
purpose be formed & carried into Execution, an offer should be made to<lb></lb>
the several Parishes within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo17">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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and to<lb></lb>
those of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo18">County of Middlesex</rs>
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which are contiguous thereto, that<lb></lb>
the Officers belonging to the Royal Volunteer Compaines should during<lb></lb>
the space of two Months give their Attendance with their<lb></lb>
Non commissioned Officers at proper times in the said Parishes in order<lb></lb>
to instruct such House keepers and other respectable Inhabitants<lb></lb>
who have engaged or may be willing to be instructed in the use of<lb></lb>
Anns for the purpose of assisting the Civil Magistrates in the<lb></lb>
preservation of the peace when occasion may require And also to<lb></lb>
furnish them with the Anns of the said Companies during the,<lb></lb>
the time of exercise & to depay any Expences that may be occasioned<lb></lb>
by the Attendance of such Non commissioned Officers on that Duty</p>
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