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<p n="220">P adjorn Jovis <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO40000_date35">16. Die Octrs. 1718</rs>
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<p n="221"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for regulatory<lb></lb>
the nightly Continud.</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n221-1">Whitlock Bulstrode</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n221-2">Hen: Fetherston</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ263">Bart</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n221-3">Robt. Thornhill</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n221-3" type="surname" value="Thornhill"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO40000_n221-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n221-4">Jon. Milner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO40000_n221-5">D' Oyly Michel</rs>
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} <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO40000_occ264">Esqrs</rs>
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.</note>
Upon Information given to this Court that the Watches within the <lb></lb>
Severall parishes hambletts Libertys and precincts in this County<lb></lb>
are Sett too late in the night time, and that the Petty Constables <lb></lb>
and Headboroughs of the said parish of Hambletts precincts and <lb></lb>
Libertys discharged their Watches too early in the morning, and <lb></lb>
that severall Carpenters Bricklayers and other Workmen using<lb></lb>
Ladders in the day time do leave them carelessly in the Streets &<lb></lb>
other places, by means whereof divers Burglarys Felonys and<lb></lb>
other mischiefs have been comitted by ill disposed persons in<lb></lb>
the said County, Now for the better preservacon of his Majestys<lb></lb>
Peace within this County and for preventing any dangers that <lb></lb>
may happen for the future by not Keeping sufficient Watches <lb></lb>
and by Carpenters and other Workmen leaving their Ladders<lb></lb>
not locked up nor secured from being used in the Night<lb></lb>
time by ill disposed Persons for evil purposes, It is<lb></lb>
thought fit and ordered by this Court that the Petty<lb></lb>
Constables and Headboroughs of every parish, hamblett,<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo159">precinct and Liberty</rs>
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in this County do forthwith upon <lb></lb>
Notice of this order sett and plate in their respective parishes<lb></lb>
hambletts Libertyes and precincts Strong and sufficient Watches <lb></lb>
and that the same be from henceforth untill Lady day next,<lb></lb>
and so from Michaelmas day to Lady day in every Year<lb></lb>
duly and constantly sett and continued from Nine of the <lb></lb>
Clock in the Evening untill Six of the Clock in the <lb></lb>
morning unless the Justices of the peace for this County in <lb></lb>
their respective Divisions shall see cause and think fitt<lb></lb>
to appoint the said Watches to be sett sooner in the evening<lb></lb>
and to continue for longer time in the morning, And that all <lb></lb>
Workmen and others useing Ladders do take effectuall<lb></lb>
care to secure and lock them up every Night in order to<lb></lb>
prevent the Mischiefs aforesaid And that no Carpenters<lb></lb>
Bricklayers Builders of Houses or their Workmen or <lb></lb>
Servants do leave bricks tyles, mortor earth dirt or other <lb></lb>
rubbish in the open Streets or passages in this County or enclose<lb></lb>
the highway in such Streets or passages whereby the passage of his <lb></lb>
Majestys Subjects may be any ways hindred or incomoded, the <lb></lb>
doing whereof is adjudged by this Court to be a great Nusance<lb></lb>
And it is further ordered by this Court that the high Constables</p>
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