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Know all Men by these Presents
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that I
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of London an held
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in One hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be
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Attorney Successors or Assigns to which Payment well and truly to be
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made I bird myself my Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by
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seventeenth day of
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George the third by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and
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Ireland Defender of the Faith and in the Year of our Lord on Thousand
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seven hundred and eighty six
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was on the day
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admitted by the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen one of the Searchers of
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mrad Leather which shall be put to sale within this City and Liberties
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whole Year thence next ensuing according to an Act of Parliament passed in
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Year of the Reign of king James the Fish Now the Condition of this
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shall use his utmost
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Endeavour to view and search all manner of James Leather which shall be brought to
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this Town to be sold or within three Miles compass of the same and shall seal such as shall
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be sufficiently tanned and dried only and no other and such as shall be insufficiently
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tanned and dried shall seize in order that it be tried and examined pursuant to the
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directions of the said Act And if the said
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days after such seizure give notice thereof in writing and of the Quantity so seized to the
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Court of Lord Mayor and aldermen for the time being and shall from time to time believer
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to the Treasures of the Hospitals of Christ and Saint Bartholomew all such Leather as
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shall be so seized and forfieted and shall so long as he shall continue in the said office
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truly and honestly behave himself in every other Point according to the true meaning of
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the said Act and shall or will pay or cause to be paid into the Chamber of London the
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yearly Gent of len Pounds to be paid by the searchers of Leather for the Room an
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Sealed and Delivered (being first
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