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P adjorn Martis
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23o. die Feb: 1724
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Cl of the Peace to
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attend the Comrs. for
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Licencing of
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Coaches, & desire
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coppys of admeasuremts.
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It is Ordered by this Court that the Deputy Clerk of
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the Peace of this County Doe attend the Commissioners
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appointed for the Licenceing of Hackney Coaches
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and Chairs, and desire them on behalfe of
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of this County to Order Coppys to be
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made and delivered to him of such admeasurements
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as they have which have been taken by direction of
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the said Commissioners within the Weekly Bills of
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Mortality, And that such Coppys be paid for at
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the Expence of this County,
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Representation against
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Samuel Newton
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We his Majties:
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Justices of the Peace
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for the County of
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Middx
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in Generall Sessions
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assembled being very sensible that the impartial Administration of Justice doth very
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much conduce to the safety of his Majties. Subjects & to the Securing of Peace & tranquility
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within the said County, & that indirect practices & irregular proceedings of any Justices
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of the peace within the same do very much tend to the Subversion of Publick Justice
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Doe humbly crave leave to make the following representation to yer. Lopps against Samuel
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Newton
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one of the Justices of the Peace for the said County in manner following (Vizt.)
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That it appeareth by the Calender delivered into this Court at the General Sessions held in
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December last by the Keeper of his Majties. Goal of
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New Prison
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in the said
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County of Prisoners Committed to the said Prison that the said Mr. Newton did by three severall
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Comitments comit three men charged by the said Comitments for several Roberies, Whereas by the
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Laws of England all Offenders in Capitall Cases must be comitted to the County Goal and of
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which the said Mr. Newton has been informed by this Court, upon former failures of his of the like
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Nature To the Rt. Honble: the Lords Comrs: for Custody of the Great Seal of
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May it please your Lordpps By one of his said Comitments dated the 31th. day of October last one
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was charged
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in Custody on the Oath of
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Mary Baxter
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Adams for violently assaulting and knocking her down in
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the Night time and Robbing her of two shillings in Silver and brass & untill further Examinaton,
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and the said Mr. Newton did on the first day of November being the next day by writing under his hand
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discharge the said
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alledging therein that it then appeared he was not the
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Person a true Copy of the said Comitment and discharge being thereunto annexed whereby
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it is evident that either an innocent Person is charged with a Notorious Crime or a
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Notorious Criminall discharged without legall process
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And it further appeareth unto us that the said Mr. Newton did on the fourteenth day of November
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last Grant his Warrant for the apprehending Francis Watlin
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Ann Smith
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and Mrs. Roper on
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the Complaint of
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(vizt.) against the said
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Francis Watlin
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for feloniously Stealing
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from him diverse parcells of Spun Worsted of a Considerable Value, against the said
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for receiving it from her to sell knowing it to be Stolen and against the said
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Mrs. Roper for buying it from the said
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upon a Violent Suspition of knowing it to
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be Stolen and by Indorsment on the back of the said Warrant it appears that the said Francis
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Watlin was Comitted to Newgate, And it further appears that the said Mr. Newton did by a
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Supersedeas bearing date the Sixteenth day of the same Month of November Supersede
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