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January 1798
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The Question was then put Whether this is to be
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considered as a County Bridge, which was carried in the Negative
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Whether the County should repair this Bridge, When it
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was also determined that the County should not repair the same
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and the Parties were acquainted with the determination of the Court
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thereon.
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By Adjournment same day
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Mr Stirling having laid before the Court a Counterpart
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of the Lease from the Justices of Lord
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Northampton
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of the piece of
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Ground in the front of the Session House for the Term of Ninety
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nine years at a Rent of One Shilling that being the longest term
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for which by the Family settlement they were impowered to grant
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Leases, Resolved that the same should be accepted notwithstanding
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the variation from that originally proposed to have been granted
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By Adjournment same day
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It being represented unto this Court, that divers
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Persons have of late shewed forth and exposed to sale their
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Goods Wares and
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Merchandizes
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and openly exercised their
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ordinary Trades and Callings on the Lords day commonly called
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Sunday; and particularly that Carriers drovers waggoners, Carmen,
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Butchers, Higlers, and their Servants do contrary to and in
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defiance of the Laws in that behalf made and ordained, travel
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and carry on their Worldly labour and business on the Lords day,
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and that the due and religious observance thereof hath been
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greatly neglected and profaned notwithstanding his Majestys late
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Proclamation calling upon all Persons at this time to pay
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Obedience to the Laws and diligently to attend to the observance of
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the Lords day,in violation of the Laws, in contempt of Order and
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Decency, and to the great scandal of the Christian Religion
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Now this Court taking the Premises into serious consideration
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in order to prevent and punish all such Abuses Do hereby
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recommend it to His Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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acting in and
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