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<p n="75"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo69">Rolls Liberty</rs>
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July 21st. 1780.</p>
<p n="76"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Gentlemen.</note>
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A Letter from you of the 4th: Instant, as Secretaries to<lb></lb>
the Committee appointed by the Lord Lieutenant, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50735_occ15">Deputy Lieutenant</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50735_occ16">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo70">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo71">City and Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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wad duly receivedAnd with the Approbation of his Honor the<lb></lb>
Master of the Rolls a general Meeting of the Inhabitants at large was<lb></lb>
this Day heldWhen</p>
<p n="77">Your Letter was read and consideredAnd the Inhabitants<lb></lb>
present unanimously expressed their Obligations to his Grace the Duke of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo72">Northumberland,</rs>
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as Lord Lieutenant and to the Committee for their<lb></lb>
Attention to the public Defence and Securityand for their generous and<lb></lb>
polite Offer of furnishing them with Arms and appointing Officers to instruct<lb></lb>
Them in the use, free from ExpenceAt the same time, they have desired<lb></lb>
one to acquaint the Committee, That they have it in Contemptation to<lb></lb>
outer into an Association among themselves for the Purpose of learning<lb></lb>
the use of Arms and rendering every Assistance that shall be necessary<lb></lb>
to the Civil Power within their own Liberty, the Expence of which<lb></lb>
they mean to defrayI am</p>
<p n="78">Gentlemen<lb></lb>
(with all Respect)<lb></lb>
Yr. most Obedt. Servt.</p>
<p n="79">R W Jennings<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50735_occ17">Vestry Clerk</rs>
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of the (<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo73">Rolls Liberty</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="80"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50735_geo74">Hire Lane</rs>
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. and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50735_n81-1">Chas. Eyles</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50735_occ18">Esqrs</rs>
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.</p>
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