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<p n="1026"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">(4)</note>
Tenements Tho' perhaps for that Reason the more danger of<lb></lb>
infection, Therefore upon the whole of this point, your<lb></lb>
committee Unanimously came to this Resolution That it<lb></lb>
"appears to this committee that the great multitude of<lb></lb>
"Inmates Harbourned within the Kills of mortality and the<lb></lb>
"parts Adjacent, is very dangerous and may be prejudicial to<lb></lb>
"the Healths of his Majestys Subjects, as well as to the public<lb></lb>
"peace, and is likewise one great cause of the frequency of<lb></lb>
"street Robberys and other Felonys, and that it doth not<lb></lb>
"appear to this Committee that the Laws now in being are<lb></lb>
"effectual or sufficient to prevent or Remedy such mischief<lb></lb>
Your Committee likewise as well from the notoriety, of the<lb></lb>
fact as from their observations upon the Returns before<lb></lb>
mentioned came to the following Resolution (vizt.)</p>
<p n="1027">"That it appears to this Committee that the Extravagant<lb></lb>
"multitude of Geneva shops within the Kills of mortality<lb></lb>
"and parts Adjacent is one great cause of the encrease of<lb></lb>
"street Robbers and other Felons.</p>
<p n="1028">And your Committee upon observing in some of the said<lb></lb>
Returns the state of the might watch Kept on the several<lb></lb>
Divisions particularly in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1055">parish of St. Andrew</rs>
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Holborn<lb></lb>
as it stands now divided from the now <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1056">parish of St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1057">the Martyr</rs>
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and the Libty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1058">Saffron Hill</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1059">Hatton Garden</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and Ely Rents (which therefore may serve to show how it<lb></lb>
is maintained in other parts) Law therein with the<lb></lb>
Utmost concern one Great Rise of the present Complaints,<lb></lb>
Your Committee berg leave for a specimen to lay before<lb></lb>
the Court a short state of the matter in the said parish as<lb></lb>
it was Reported by the Justices acting therein to stand<lb></lb>
on the 30th. of October last.</p>
<p n="1029">The Watch there is, (vizt.)</p>
<p n="1030">For the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1060">St. Andrews Holborn</rs>
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-But 17<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1486">Watchmen</rs>
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of which two are Readles<lb></lb>
and 3 more always attend the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1487">constable</rs>
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at the Watchouse, These<lb></lb>
have but 9th P annm each and come but<lb></lb>
at 11 and go off at 5 in the morning.</p>
<p n="1031">And your Committee could not but agree with the<lb></lb>
Justices of that Division in their opinion formed upon<lb></lb>
inspecting the respective books of collections for the<lb></lb>
payment of the several watchmen of theaforesaid</p>
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