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1764.
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Octor. 18th
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This petition being read and unanimously approved of and was signed by all the,
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Gentlemen present among whom were Sr
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Esquire the Members for the County and Lord Warkworth and the Honorable Mr. Sandys
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the Members for Westmr. St. William Beauchamp Proctor undertook to present it
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It was also agreed that Petitions to the same Effect as that of the Justices should be
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Preferred by the several Hundreds of the County and directions were given to prepare
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such Sr William Beauchamp Proctor then went to the House immediately and
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Presented the Petition and it was refer'd to the Committee to which the former petitions
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stood referred. In a few days after the other Petitions to the number of twelve
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came in and they were all referr'd in like manner as the former, Before the
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breaking up of this Committee it was moved that the Management of the County
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opposition should be refer'd to a committee and accordingly a committee of seven,
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Gentlemen was appointed who were
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Thomas Lane
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William Bayntun
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Mr Poyntz a Sollicitor of the
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Employed to take care of the Petition within Doors and Mr Jefferson the deputy
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at large
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Of the proceedings of this Committee from day to day minutes were
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taken by the Clerks attending it and of those Minutes a Copy is to be found among
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the Papers relating to this Matter in the Custody of the
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at the
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first sitting the Managers for the County procured an order for producing the
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Charter of Confirmation of Chas. 2d. on acot of sums paid into the Chamber of
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London for Sheriffs fines an account of monies received by the Duty on Coals
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under the Statute of 19th. Chas. 2d. and an Account of monies received by sale of
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the Materials of such of the City Gates as had then lately been pull'd down
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By their particulars which the City were very unwilling to have produced
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it appeared that they had received for Sheriffs Fines from the Year 1672 only
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£130,550 By total produce of the Impost on Coals £736,804..9..2 By
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produce of Materials of the City Gates £794. total, 868..148.9.2
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And that they had Coverted the Seite of Ludgate into a
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Freehold
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Estate which they had let on a Building Lease at £70 a year with a fine
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of £496 payable every fourteen years It appd. likewise that the City had
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sold the Keepers place from time to time and had made Insurances
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from fire on the Building and lately received a Sum of £500, on that
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