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<p n="89">within the said Ward to wit in the said Parish of Saint Helen in the Ward afd before Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n89-1">Robert Godschall</rs>
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. then one<lb></lb>
of the Aldermen of the said City and then and yet Alderman of the said Ward lawfully and duly by the men inhabiting and<lb></lb>
resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott within the said Ward according to the Custom of the said Court and the said Ward for<lb></lb>
all the time aofresaid used was duly elected into the Office of one of the Constables in and for the said Ward for one<lb></lb>
whole year then next ensuing and untill another person should be elected into his Office for preserving the Peace of<lb></lb>
the said Lord the King and for apprehending Rogues Vagabonds and other Suspicious persons within the Ward<lb></lb>
afd for the publick Good and that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n89-2">John Pugett</rs>
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afterwards to wit the said twenty second Day of December<lb></lb>
in the Fourteenth year afd at the same Parish and Ward afd had Notice thereof and then and there was duly<lb></lb>
required to appear in the said Court held before the Mayor and Aldermen of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo105">City of London</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo106">Guildhall</rs>
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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<lb></lb>
Execution of his said Office and to execute his said Office Nevertheless the said John Pugett little<lb></lb>
regarding his duty in this behalf but intending and endeavouring the due Execution of his sd. Office totally to neglect<lb></lb>
and omitt continually after his said Election to the said Office to wit the said Monday next after the said Feast of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo107">Epiphany</rs>
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and continually afterwards hitherto untill the day of the taking this Insquisition (altho' often requested at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo108">Parish and Ward</rs>
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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<lb></lb>
to execute voluntarily obstinately and Contemptuously all together hath refused and denyed and yet refuses and<lb></lb>
denys against his said Duty in manifest Contempt of the said Lord the King now and his Laws to the bad and<lb></lb>
ill Example of all others in the like Case offending and against the Peace of the said Lord the King his Crown<lb></lb>
and Dignity and so forth And the said Jurors upon their said Oath further present That the said John<lb></lb>
Pugett the said twenty second day of December in the Fourteenth year afd and long before and always after<lb></lb>
untill the day of the taking of this Inquisition was inhabiting and resiant and paying Scott and bearing Lott<lb></lb>
within the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo109">St. Botolph Bishopsgate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo110">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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afd and that within the Ward of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo111">Bishopsgate</rs>
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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<lb></lb>
certain Court of our Lord the King now and his Predecessors called the Wardmote held and to be held in every year in &<lb></lb>
upon the Feast of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo112">St. Thomas the Apostle</rs>
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unless the said Feast happened to be on a Sunday and in such Case upon<lb></lb>
the day their next following the said Feast before the Alderman of the Ward afd for the time being or his Deputy in which<lb></lb>
said Court according to the Custom within the said Ward for all the time afd used and approved to wit in the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo113">St. Helen</rs>
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in the Ward afd All the Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott for the time<lb></lb>
being within the Ward afd have been used accustomed and ought and were bound by reason of their residence<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
for all the time afd the said Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott for the time being within<lb></lb>
the Ward afd were used and accustomed and ought to appoint and choose diverse persons then inhabiting and resiant<lb></lb>
and paying Scott and bearing Lott within the Ward aforsd. Constables in and for the several Precincts of the sd. Ward<lb></lb>
for the preserving of the Peace of the sd. Lord the King and for apprehending of Rogues Vagabonds and other Suspicious<lb></lb>
Persons within the Ward afd for the Publick Good which sd. Persons so as afd appointed and chosen were used<lb></lb>
accustomed and ought to hold of said office last mentioned for the year then next ensuing and untill another person<lb></lb>
should be elected into their said Office last mentioned and also were used and accustomed and ought on ye Monday next after<lb></lb>
the Feast of Epiphany next after their said Election to take their Corperal Oath for the due Execution of the sd. Office last<lb></lb>
mentioned at ye <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo114">Guildhall</rs>
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of the said City in the Court there hold before the Mayor & Aldermen of the said City for the<lb></lb>
time being for all the Time afd And the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15053_n89-3">John Pugett</rs>
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the said twenty second day of December in the<lb></lb>
Fourteenth year aforsd. the same day being the day next following the Feast of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15053_geo115">St. Thomas the Apostle</rs>
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which said</p>
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