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Browns case 3. Ro :
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abr 139. p to. 3.
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Reds in a Roam
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for the reception of persons who are accomodated
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£2: or 3d: a night and no enquiry made into their honesty or
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Character which cannot But be productive of all sorts of
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Inconveniences to the parishes places where such
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is, and is highly necessary to be prevented, as well in respect
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to the health of the people as for the security of their persons
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and property, But when your Committee applyed Themselves
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to consider of a Legal method for that purpose It did not
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appear to them that the laws as they now Stand do supply
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a direct remedy adequate to the Mischeif. For that the
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persons under their consideration do not seem to be
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Inmates within the description or meaning of the Statute
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of 31st. of Elizabeth
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. 7th. which only prohibits more
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familys than one under the name of Inmates to be in one
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Cottage (when the Cottage is allowed by that Statute)
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upon the penalty of 10s: a month to be forfeited By the owner
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of the Cottage to the Lord of the leet where such Cottage is
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And tho' it be true that
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Justices of the peace
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in their
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Sessions have power by that statute To enquire of all
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Offences against the same, and to award Execution for
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Levying the forfeitures By fieri facias Capias or
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otherwise as the cause shall require, Yet the Offenders
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not being properly Cottagers or keeping Cottages or such
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like houses for habitation only Erected upon the Wasts
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of mannors But mostly keepers of publick houses or
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proprietors of other dwelling houses Harbouring
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single persons under pretence of Letting Lodging for
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hire and not different poor Familys in the manner
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intended By the said act of parliament altho, rather
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with greater inconvenience to the publick than the
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persons there described, seem not to be punishable by
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Statute no more than they seem to be within the Rule
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or Reason of the precedents where persons have been
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Indicted for dividing messuages in Downs for the
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habitation of poor people or Familys; which might be
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dangerous in the time of the plagued and the precedents
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of the like kind said in Browns case mentioned in the
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margent to be frequent in London There being not usually
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in the Cases under your Committees consideration any
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dividing of messuages for such purpose into district
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