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Continued Wednesday 13th. February 1765
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Also to make such Officers or
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in the said Houses to on
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the same Poor well Ordered and Kept & for the Governance of the
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same Officers as to them should be thought Convenient and not
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repugnant to the Law or the Kings Prerogative And that it shod
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be lawful as well for them as for such Officers and
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of
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of
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as they should Appoint from time to time within
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the
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to search & Examine
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all Suspicious Houses as Taverns Alehouses Victualling Houses
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Gaming and Dicing Houses Dancing Schools, Tennis Plays, Bowling
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Alleys Cock Pits and other Suspected or Unlawful Places and also
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to search every such Suspicious House or Place of Idle Ruffians
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Vagabonds or Masterless Men or Women or any other Suspected
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Person or Persons which they could Apprehend and not only to Commit
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them but also the Householder - Master or Keeper of such Houses or
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Places where they should be found unto the House of Occupations aforesd
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or otherwise to Punish them at their Discretions unless they could
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Honestly discharge themselves for Harbouring and Lodging such
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Suspected Persons or for Maintaining such unlawful Games or that
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such Ruffian Vagabond or Masterless Person could Tuestby Excuse
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themselves of their Misbehaviour and that it should be lawful
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for the said Mayor and Officers for the Time being to Use such
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Correction and Order therein as to them should seem Meet
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And We further find that his said late Majesty King Edwd
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the Sixth by his Letters Patent bearing Date at
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the
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26th. of the same June Reciting to the Effect in the said grant or
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Indenture of Covenants Recited Did Gue and Grant to the said Mayor
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Commonalty & Citizens the said Manors Houses or Hospitals called
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the Savoy
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with all the Lands Tenements Hereditaments
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and Appartenances therein particularly mentioned situate in the
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and in the Counties of
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Kent Essex Hertford
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Derby and York and also the said Implements
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and Furniture ( Except as in the said Grant is Excepted ) which
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were then of the Yearly Value of £450 To hold to the said Mayor
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Commonalty and Citizens and their Successors for Ever as of the
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Manor of
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in free Soccage by Fealty only and not in Capite
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with the like Power for purchasing Lands and Hereditaments to the same
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Extent and Yearly Value as in the said Grant mentioned and also
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ordained that the Hospitals when founded & Established should be
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called the Hospitals
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of Edward the Sixth King of England that is to say Christ
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and should be one Body
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Corporate and Politick for Ever by that Name and should have
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Perpetual Succession and hare one Common Seal for the Managemt.
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of their Affairs with the like Power for making Rules & Ordinances for
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appointing Officers &
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& Examining Suspicious Houses for
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Vagabonds and Beggars and for punishing them & the Landlords of
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such Houses as in the said Grant & Indenture of Covenant is containd.
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