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<p n="717">paid as Inn'tement to Constables and others to do their Duty in this respect and the<lb></lb>
Punishment directed to be inflicted upon Offenders against the said At yet by the <lb></lb>
Negligence and Remissness of such Officers in the Discharge of their Duty the<lb></lb>
Streets of this Metropolis and Towns and Places in this County are greatly pestered<lb></lb>
with Numbers of Beggars resorting to the said Metropolis Towns and Places <lb></lb>
from all Parts of the Kingdom which are a publick Nusance and bring a great <lb></lb>
Burthen and Expence upon this County contrary to the Intent of the said Act.<lb></lb>
This Court doth therefore recommend it to the Magistrates of this County to cause<lb></lb>
the said Act to be strictly and speedily put in Execution against all Persons who<lb></lb>
shall be found wandering and begging in their several Parishes Divisions and<lb></lb>
Districts and inflict the punishment prescribed by the said Act upon such Offenders <lb></lb>
And this Court being resolved as much as in them lieth strictly to inforce the Execution <lb></lb>
of the said Act Do hereby charge and command all High and Petty Constables <lb></lb>
and other Peace Officers within this County to be very carefull and diligent in <lb></lb>
apprehending all Persons found wandering and begging in the Streets and Places in this<lb></lb>
County and to convey them before some of his Majestys Justices of the Peace<lb></lb>
And all Persons are hereby enjoined to aid and assist the Peace Officers in the<lb></lb>
Execution of the said Act as they will answer the contrary at their peril And <lb></lb>
the Constables and other Peace Officers are hereby charged to make diligent<lb></lb>
and speedy Search in their respective Parishes and Places and return to the<lb></lb>
several Justices of the Peace the Names and Places of Abode of such<lb></lb>
Persons as shall for the future presume of lodge or harbour Beggars in their<lb></lb>
Houses or other Buildings in order to their Conviction and Punishment as the<lb></lb>
said Act, directs and this Court doth recommend it to the several Magistrates to reward <lb></lb>
such Persons as shall be active and diligent in their Duty as by the said<lb></lb>
Act they are impowered And all Constables and others injoined to put the said <lb></lb>
Act in Execution are to take Notice that they will be prosecuted for their <lb></lb>
negligence or refusal so to do with the utmost Severity of the Law And to<lb></lb>
prevent any Parish, Peace Officer or other Person required to put the said<lb></lb>
Act in Execution pleading Ignorance in the Premisses It is Ordered that<lb></lb>
the Clerk of the Peace do cause a sufficient Number of Copys hereof to<lb></lb>
be forthwith printed and by the Cryer of this Court to be sent to the<lb></lb>
Justices of the Peace and High Constables of the several Divisions <lb></lb>
within this County for the better notifying the same to their Petty Constables <lb></lb>
and other Peace Officers And also that a sufficient Number of Copys hereof be<lb></lb>
fixed up in the publick Streets of this Town and in such Towns and Villages in this<lb></lb>
County near the Roads leading to London And that the same be forthwith published <lb></lb>
in such of the Daily and Evening Papers as may best circulate the knowledge of<lb></lb>
this Resolution.</p>
<p n="718">By the Court <lb></lb>
Waller</p>
<p n="719"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order concerning the<lb></lb>
Assize of Bread.</note>
On the same Day It was Ordered That the Assize of Bread<lb></lb>
as it shall be set from time to time by the Lord Mayor and Court of</p>
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