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<p n="112">Session House <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50877_geo58">Clerkenwell Green</rs>
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<p n="113">Nov, 2d 1762.</p>
<p n="114">The Jurors of our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King in Grand Inquest Assembled, most Seriously deploring<lb></lb>
the increasing Prevalence of that most detestable and<lb></lb>
abominable Crime which the Law has Pronounce not fit even<lb></lb>
to be named, among Christians, and from several Circumstances<lb></lb>
which have come to their Knowledge as Well in Evidence as<lb></lb>
otherwise, having reason to believe the Perpetrators of this<lb></lb>
horrid Offence are much assisted in the means of effecting<lb></lb>
their diabolical Practices by the Access they get to his<lb></lb>
Majestys Park of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50877_geo59">St. James in the City and Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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during the Night, where their Meetings have<lb></lb>
been so frequent as almost to become matter of Public Notoricty;<lb></lb>
The Jurors therefore humbly Presume to come before this Court<lb></lb>
with a request that the Court will be Pleased, in such mode<lb></lb>
and Manner as they shall think proper, to make the needful<lb></lb>
application to the Ranger of the said Parh, his Deputy, or<lb></lb>
other the Proper Officer, that, if it shall be found Convenient<lb></lb>
and Practicable, every Avenne Whatever leading to the said<lb></lb>
Park may be Shut up at some certain and Seasonable time<lb></lb>
in the Evening, and so continue until Morning, and that no<lb></lb>
person be suffered to enter the said Park during the time<lb></lb>
of its being so Shut, without, making it appear that they<lb></lb>
have some lawful occasion for so doing. The Jurors have<lb></lb>
been given to understand, that all the Gates except the<lb></lb>
One known by the name of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50877_geo60">Penny's Gate</rs>
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, are already Shut<lb></lb>
up nightly, and they of themselves are not aware of any<lb></lb>
Inconveniences that can arise from shutting this also, but</p>
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