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par 5
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That the business of the
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may meet delay for
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want of a sufficient Number to make a Court which would be an
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Inconvenience to his
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Subjects who are obliged to attend
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and presents their severall Indictments against Offenders
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and some times an Lordship upon the prisoners
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It is supposed in this Paragraph, that a Delay of Justice may
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happen to the prejudice of the Prosecutors & the prisoners for
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want of competent Number; But'tis presumed that the
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Gentlemen who have averred this possibility of an Inconvenience
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will not say that it over has happened, Or that it is even
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probable, That a sufficient Number can be wanting (as it
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is Ordered) to carry on the business of the Comission.
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That some of the Justices of the Peace of this County were
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formerly (& till lately) put into the Comission of Goal Delivery
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the discontinuance of which we apprehend to be the cause
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of the ill treatment & bad accomodacon we have of late
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Years met with
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Answer 6
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That some Gentlemen Justices of his Peace were put
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into the Comission of Goal Delivery at the Letter end of King
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Charles's Reign & in King James's Reign is true, But as that
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contributed to the Arbitrary and illegall purposes then
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carrying on, And as ever since the Revolution such a
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practice has been discontinued, Tis hoped no such Instances
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will have wright with your Lordship to revive any such
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practice then dangerous & now unnecessary. What is meant
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by the ill treatment and bad accomodation lately met with
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which is laid to the discontinuance of putting in Justices of
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the peace into this Comission, is as much in the dark (as the
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other methods lately used to make the Justices uneasy;
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And till Explained cannot be sett in a true light
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That as we have not been wanting in our respective
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Stations to use our utmost diligence & endeavors in the
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service of his Majesty & his Government, And have already
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done And shall continue to do all that is in our power to
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establish the Reputation of our Comission so we hope
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That the Comission shall have the same Concitenance and
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Encouragement it formerly enjoyed in the time of our
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predecessors And we beg leave to assume your Lordship
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