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to let out to hire or otherwise dispose of that part of the Court
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is what has been never menconed or complained of to any of
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the Court there, And if It had most certainly the Court would
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have paid that Report to the Justices as to have Ordered
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a remedy to any such Grievance, And it may be affirmed
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with truth that the Justices who do attend with their
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Examinacons & Confessions according to their Duty Doe
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Constantly find Room and are accomodated during their
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attendance on the Bench. What the other Methods are which
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have of bete years been used And which make the Justices
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uneasy & discourage them in the discharge of that part of
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their duly being not menconed cannot Receive an Answer,
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And the Lord Mayor & Aldermen who attend that Service
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cannot so much as imagine, They for their parts always
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treating the Justices with a Respect Suitable to their characters
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That the Judges who sit at the
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frequently deliver
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their Opinions relating to us and our proceedings which would
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be of great use to us to know, That we may regulate Our
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selves accordingly, and if some of our Number were put
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into that Comission It would give them an opportunity of
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informing us from time to time of the Opinions of the Judges
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And thereby prevent our transgressing Rules which now we
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have no means of being acquainted with
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It may be true that the Judges do some times Deliver their
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Opinions relating to the Justices and their proceedings, and some
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times fine them when offenders escape for went of a
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Confession being returned as the State of Parliamt. require,
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And if this Gives the Justices any uneasiness & discourages them
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in the discharge of that part of their duty, Tis not be
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attributed to the Justices not being in the Comission of Goal
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Delivery, Because the Acts of parliamt. acquaint them how
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they are to regulate themselves in that particular, And as
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for other Rules to govern themselves by, If the knowledge
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of them may be learnt by attendance at the old Bayly there is
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always room & accomodacon for any Number of Justices, who may
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be sufficient to inform them of what passes in the Court Altho'
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they should not be in the Comission of Goal Delivery, and
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his very seldom (if ever) That some of the Justices are not at
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the Sessions at the
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, so that their Bretheren cannot
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