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within the said Ward to wit in the said Parish of Saint Helen in the Ward afd before Sr.
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Robert Godschall
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. then one
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of the Aldermen of the said City and then and yet Alderman of the said Ward lawfully and duly by the men inhabiting and
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resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott within the said Ward according to the Custom of the said Court and the said Ward for
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all the time aofresaid used was duly elected into the Office of one of the Constables in and for the said Ward for one
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whole year then next ensuing and untill another person should be elected into his Office for preserving the Peace of
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the said Lord the King and for apprehending Rogues Vagabonds and other Suspicious persons within the Ward
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afd for the publick Good and that the said
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John Pugett
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afterwards to wit the said twenty second Day of December
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in the Fourteenth year afd at the same Parish and Ward afd had Notice thereof and then and there was duly
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required to appear in the said Court held before the Mayor and Aldermen of the said
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of the said City of the Monday next after the Feast of Epiphany then next following to take his Oath for the due
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Execution of his said Office and to execute his said Office Nevertheless the said John Pugett little
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regarding his duty in this behalf but intending and endeavouring the due Execution of his sd. Office totally to neglect
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and omitt continually after his said Election to the said Office to wit the said Monday next after the said Feast of
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and continually afterwards hitherto untill the day of the taking this Insquisition (altho' often requested at the
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afd) to take his said Oath for the due Execution of his said Office or his said Office in any manner
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to execute voluntarily obstinately and Contemptuously all together hath refused and denyed and yet refuses and
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denys against his said Duty in manifest Contempt of the said Lord the King now and his Laws to the bad and
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ill Example of all others in the like Case offending and against the Peace of the said Lord the King his Crown
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and Dignity and so forth And the said Jurors upon their said Oath further present That the said John
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Pugett the said twenty second day of December in the Fourteenth year afd and long before and always after
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untill the day of the taking of this Inquisition was inhabiting and resiant and paying Scott and bearing Lott
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within the said Parish of
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afd and that within the Ward of
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afd there is and from the time whereof the memory of Man is not to the contrary there hath been a
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certain Court of our Lord the King now and his Predecessors called the Wardmote held and to be held in every year in &
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upon the Feast of
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unless the said Feast happened to be on a Sunday and in such Case upon
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the day their next following the said Feast before the Alderman of the Ward afd for the time being or his Deputy in which
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said Court according to the Custom within the said Ward for all the time afd used and approved to wit in the Parish
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of
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in the Ward afd All the Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott for the time
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being within the Ward afd have been used accustomed and ought and were bound by reason of their residence
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to appear in the said Court and do their Suit there and in the said Court according to the Custom of the said Court yearly
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for all the time afd the said Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott for the time being within
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the Ward afd were used and accustomed and ought to appoint and choose diverse persons then inhabiting and resiant
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and paying Scott and bearing Lott within the Ward aforsd. Constables in and for the several Precincts of the sd. Ward
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for the preserving of the Peace of the sd. Lord the King and for apprehending of Rogues Vagabonds and other Suspicious
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Persons within the Ward afd for the Publick Good which sd. Persons so as afd appointed and chosen were used
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accustomed and ought to hold of said office last mentioned for the year then next ensuing and untill another person
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should be elected into their said Office last mentioned and also were used and accustomed and ought on ye Monday next after
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the Feast of Epiphany next after their said Election to take their Corperal Oath for the due Execution of the sd. Office last
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mentioned at ye
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of the said City in the Court there hold before the Mayor & Aldermen of the said City for the
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time being for all the Time afd And the sd.
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John Pugett
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the said twenty second day of December in the
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Fourteenth year aforsd. the same day being the day next following the Feast of
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which said
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