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<p n="255">the expences and are as much Officers of the County as the City</p>
<p n="256">The Justices do not desire or intend to encrease any part<lb></lb>
of the expences and cannot but wonder that they are opposed<lb></lb>
by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen from having his Majestys<lb></lb>
favour of granting that some of them may be in that<lb></lb>
Comission, aswell as the Aldermen who are in the Goal<lb></lb>
Delivery of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo184">Middlesex</rs>
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and as time out of mind some<lb></lb>
of the Justices of the peace in all the Countyes of this<lb></lb>
Kingdom have been in the Comissions of Goal Delivery<lb></lb>
of their respective Countyes</p>
<p n="257">It is humbly hoped that the County of Middlesex (far<lb></lb>
the most considerable of any County or City for Number<lb></lb>
and Quality of Inhabitants Wealth and Taxes) shall<lb></lb>
not be singular and the Justices of Peace discouraged <lb></lb>
or not have the same favour in the Kings Courts as<lb></lb>
other Justices of other Countyes do enjoy which they<lb></lb>
humbly Submitt to your Lordships Judgment.</p>
<p n="258">And the Justices do further crave leave to inform<lb></lb>
your Lordship that the Juries for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo185">Middlesex</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo186">old Baily</rs>
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have frequently been discharged without<lb></lb>
any Notice given to the Sessions at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo187">Hicks hall</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
when severall Bills of Indictment for Felony have<lb></lb>
been depending before the Grand Jury there which<lb></lb>
have been afterwards found And imediately sent<lb></lb>
down to the Court at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40000_geo188">Old Baily</rs>
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after the Jury there<lb></lb>
have been discharged<lb></lb>
Whereby some prisoners have been discharged out of Custody<lb></lb>
and escaped punishment and others could not be tryed till<lb></lb>
a Subsequent Sessions, which hath been a great<lb></lb>
discouragement to prosecutions against Offenders and<lb></lb>
Some times a great hardship to the prisoners and which<lb></lb>
were humbly conceive might be prevented by putting<lb></lb>
Some of our Number into the Comission of the</p>
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