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Browns case
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2 Ro: Abr:
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139 p3.
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of ten Shillings a month to be forfeited by the Owner of
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the cottage to the Lord of the Leet where Such cottage is, And
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tho' it be true that
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Justices of the peace
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in their Sessions have
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power by that Statute to inquire of all Offences against the
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same, and to a ward execucon for levying the forfeitures
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by Fieri facias, capias, or otherwise as the cause shall
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require, yet the offenders not being properly Cottagers or
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keeping cottages or Such like houses for habitacon only
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erected upon the wasts of Mannors but mostly Keepers
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of publick houses or proprietors of other dwelling houses
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harbouring Single persons under pretence of letting
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lodgeing for hire and not different poor Familys in the
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manner intended by the Said Act of Parliament altho'
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rather with greater inconvenience to the publick than
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the persons there described Seem not to be punishable
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by that Statute Noe more than they Seem to be within
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the Rule or reason of the precedents where persons have
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been Judicted for dividing messuages in Towns for
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the habitacon of poor people or Familys which
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might be dangerous in the time of the Plague, And
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that Precedents of the like kind Said in Browns case
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menconed in the Margent to be frequent in London,
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There being not usually in cases under the consideracon
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of the Committee any dividing of Messuages for Such
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purpose into distinct tenements Tho' perhaps for
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that reason the more danger of infection, Therefore
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upon the whole of this point The Committee
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unanimously came to this Resolucon.
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"That it appeared to the Committee that the great
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"of Mortality and the parts adjacent is very
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"dangerous and may be prejudicial to the healths
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"of his Maties. Subjects as well as to the publick peace,
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