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<p n="235"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">par 5</note>
That the business of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo174">Old Baily</rs>
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may meet delay for<lb></lb>
want of a sufficient Number to make a Court which would be an <lb></lb>
Inconvenience to his<del>Majestys</del>
Subjects who are obliged to attend<lb></lb>
and presents their severall Indictments against Offenders<lb></lb>
and some times an Lordship upon the prisoners</p>
<p n="236"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Answer 5</note>
It is supposed in this Paragraph, that a Delay of Justice may<lb></lb>
happen to the prejudice of the Prosecutors & the prisoners for <lb></lb>
want of competent Number; But'tis presumed that the <lb></lb>
Gentlemen who have averred this possibility of an Inconvenience<lb></lb>
will not say that it over has happened, Or that it is even<lb></lb>
probable, That a sufficient Number can be wanting (as it<lb></lb>
is Ordered) to carry on the business of the Comission.</p>
<p n="237"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">par 6</note>
That some of the Justices of the Peace of this County were<lb></lb>
formerly (& till lately) put into the Comission of Goal Delivery<lb></lb>
the discontinuance of which we apprehend to be the cause <lb></lb>
of the ill treatment & bad accomodacon we have of late<lb></lb>
Years met with</p>
<p n="238"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Answer 6</note>
That some Gentlemen Justices of his Peace were put<lb></lb>
into the Comission of Goal Delivery at the Letter end of King<lb></lb>
Charles's Reign & in King James's Reign is true, But as that <lb></lb>
contributed to the Arbitrary and illegall purposes then<lb></lb>
carrying on, And as ever since the Revolution such a<lb></lb>
practice has been discontinued, Tis hoped no such Instances<lb></lb>
will have wright with your Lordship to revive any such <lb></lb>
practice then dangerous & now unnecessary. What is meant<lb></lb>
by the ill treatment and bad accomodation lately met with<lb></lb>
which is laid to the discontinuance of putting in Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace into this Comission, is as much in the dark (as the <lb></lb>
other methods lately used to make the Justices uneasy;<lb></lb>
And till Explained cannot be sett in a true light</p>
<p n="239"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">par 7</note>
That as we have not been wanting in our respective<lb></lb>
Stations to use our utmost diligence & endeavors in the <lb></lb>
service of his Majesty & his Government, And have already<lb></lb>
done And shall continue to do all that is in our power to <lb></lb>
establish the Reputation of our Comission so we hope<lb></lb>
That the Comission shall have the same Concitenance and <lb></lb>
Encouragement it formerly enjoyed in the time of our<lb></lb>
predecessors And we beg leave to assume your Lordship</p>
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