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<p n="976">Windsor Castle 8. Octr. 1728</p>
<p n="977"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Letter from the Lord<lb></lb>
Viscount Townshend<lb></lb>
Principall <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1417">Secretary</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of State against<lb></lb>
Street Robberys Etc</note>
Sir<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n977-1">His Majesty</rs>
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being very much concerned at the frequent<lb></lb>
Robberys of late Committed in the Streets of London,<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1015">Westminster</rs>
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and Parts adjacent, and being informed<lb></lb>
that they are greatly to be imputed to the Unlawfull<lb></lb>
Return of Felons Convict, who have been transported<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n977-2">his Majesty</rs>
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's Plantations has been graciously<lb></lb>
pleased, for the better Discovering and Apprehending<lb></lb>
of Such Felons, to give Orders to the Lords Commissioners<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n977-3">his Majesty</rs>
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's Treasury, to cause to be paid to<lb></lb>
any Person or Persons, who before the First day of<lb></lb>
March next shall Discover any of them, So as<lb></lb>
they may be apprehended and brought to Justice,<lb></lb>
a Reward of Forty Pounds for each Felon<lb></lb>
Convict returned, or that Shall return from<lb></lb>
Transportation before the Expiration of the<lb></lb>
Term for which he or She was Transported, who<lb></lb>
Shall by the means of Such Discovery be brought<lb></lb>
to Condign Punishment</p>
<p n="978">And it having been further Represented to his<lb></lb>
Majesty, that Such Felons and other Robbers and their<lb></lb>
Accomplices are greatly Encouraged and Harboured<lb></lb>
by Persons who make it their Business to keep<lb></lb>
Night. Houses, which are resorted to by great Numbers<lb></lb>
of Loose and Disorderly People, and that the Gaming<lb></lb>
Houses, and also the Shops where Geneva and other<lb></lb>
Spirits and Strong Lignors are Drunk to excess,<lb></lb>
much contribute to the Corruption of the Morals of those<lb></lb>
of an inferior Rank, and to the leading them into <lb></lb>
these Wicked Courses, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n978-1">his Majesty</rs>
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has commanded me</p>
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