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deliver their opinions relateing to Us & your Proceedings
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which would be of great Use to Us to know that we may
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regulate ourselves accordingly And if some of our
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Number were Put into that Comicon If would give
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them an opportunity of informing Us from time to
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time of the opinions of the Judges And therby prevent
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our transgressing those Rules which now we have
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noe means of being acquainted with.
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That the business of the
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may meet with
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delays for want of a sufficient number to make a
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Court, which would be an Inconvenience to his
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Maties. Subjects, who are obliged to attend & Prosecute
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their several Indictmts. against Offenders aswell
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as sometimes an hardship Upon the Prisoners.
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That some of the Justices of the Peace for this
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County were formerly (and till lately) put into
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the said Comicon of Goal Delivery, the
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discontinuance of which we apprehend to be the
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Cause of the ill treatmts. & bad accommodation we
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have of late years met with.
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That as we have not been wanting in our
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respective Stacons to Use our Utmost diligence and
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endeavours in the Service of his Matis. and his
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Governmt. And have already done & shall
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continue to doe all that is in our Power to
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establish the Reputacon of our Comicon Soe wee
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hope that the Comicon shall have the same
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countenance & Encouragemt. If formerly enjoyed
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in the time of our Predecessors And we beg leave
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to assure your Lordship that whatever authority
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any of Us shall be further entrusted with shall be
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always applyed & exerted for the Safety of his
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Maties. Person & Governmt. And for the Preservacon
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of Publick Peace & tranquility wthin this County.
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All which we humbly represent
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And submitt to your Lordships
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great Wisdom & Justice.
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Octr. ye 13th.1718.
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