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<p n="1102"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Browns case<lb></lb>
2 Ro: Abr:<lb></lb>
139 p3.</note>
of ten Shillings a month to be forfeited by the Owner of<lb></lb>
the cottage to the Lord of the Leet where Such cottage is, And<lb></lb>
tho' it be true that <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1555">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in their Sessions have<lb></lb>
power by that Statute to inquire of all Offences against the<lb></lb>
same, and to a ward execucon for levying the forfeitures<lb></lb>
by Fieri facias, capias, or otherwise as the cause shall<lb></lb>
require, yet the offenders not being properly Cottagers or<lb></lb>
keeping cottages or Such like houses for habitacon only<lb></lb>
erected upon the wasts of Mannors but mostly Keepers<lb></lb>
of publick houses or proprietors of other dwelling houses<lb></lb>
harbouring Single persons under pretence of letting<lb></lb>
lodgeing for hire and not different poor Familys in the<lb></lb>
manner intended by the Said Act of Parliament altho'<lb></lb>
rather with greater inconvenience to the publick than<lb></lb>
the persons there described Seem not to be punishable<lb></lb>
by that Statute Noe more than they Seem to be within<lb></lb>
the Rule or reason of the precedents where persons have<lb></lb>
been Judicted for dividing messuages in Towns for<lb></lb>
the habitacon of poor people or Familys which<lb></lb>
might be dangerous in the time of the Plague, And<lb></lb>
that Precedents of the like kind Said in Browns case<lb></lb>
menconed in the Margent to be frequent in London,<lb></lb>
There being not usually in cases under the consideracon<lb></lb>
of the Committee any dividing of Messuages for Such<lb></lb>
purpose into distinct tenements Tho' perhaps for<lb></lb>
that reason the more danger of infection, Therefore<lb></lb>
upon the whole of this point The Committee<lb></lb>
unanimously came to this Resolucon.</p>
<p n="1103">"That it appeared to the Committee that the great<lb></lb>
"Multitude of Inmates harboured within the Bills<lb></lb>
"of Mortality and the parts adjacent is very<lb></lb>
"dangerous and may be prejudicial to the healths<lb></lb>
"of his Maties. Subjects as well as to the publick peace,</p>
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