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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their oath present that
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on the Second day of January in the Twelfth Year of the reign of our
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Sovereign Lord George the Second of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of
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the faith And at divers other times between the said Second day of January in the twelfth
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year aforesaid and the Day of the taking of this Inquisition at London aforesaid in
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the Parish of
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Within Unlawfully and unjustly
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had and kept One pair of false Scales which wanted in the Draught of the Same four
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Ounces to make them of an Equal and due Ballance He the said William Wolfe Weaver
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then and there well knowing the said Scales to be defective of their Equal and due Ballance
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as is aforesaid with intent to deceive and defraud the Subjects of our Lord the King by
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Selling to them Goods and Merchandizes by the said false Scales to the Evil Example
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of all others in the like Case offending and against the Peace of our said Lord the King his
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Crown and Dignity & so forth
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