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the expences and are as much Officers of the County as the City
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The Justices do not desire or intend to encrease any part
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of the expences and cannot but wonder that they are opposed
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by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen from having his Majestys
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favour of granting that some of them may be in that
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Comission, aswell as the Aldermen who are in the Goal
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Delivery of
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and as time out of mind some
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of the Justices of the peace in all the Countyes of this
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Kingdom have been in the Comissions of Goal Delivery
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of their respective Countyes
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It is humbly hoped that the County of Middlesex (far
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the most considerable of any County or City for Number
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and Quality of Inhabitants Wealth and Taxes) shall
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not be singular and the Justices of Peace discouraged
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or not have the same favour in the Kings Courts as
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other Justices of other Countyes do enjoy which they
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humbly Submitt to your Lordships Judgment.
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And the Justices do further crave leave to inform
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your Lordship that the Juries for
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at the
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have frequently been discharged without
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any Notice given to the Sessions at
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and
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when severall Bills of Indictment for Felony have
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been depending before the Grand Jury there which
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have been afterwards found And imediately sent
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down to the Court at the
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after the Jury there
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have been discharged
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Whereby some prisoners have been discharged out of Custody
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and escaped punishment and others could not be tryed till
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a Subsequent Sessions, which hath been a great
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discouragement to prosecutions against Offenders and
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Some times a great hardship to the prisoners and which
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were humbly conceive might be prevented by putting
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Some of our Number into the Comission of the
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