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<p n="908">Nor did your Petitioners make any Interest or application<lb></lb>
whatever for the obtaining such Licence.</p>
<p n="909">That when the said Signer Torree' had by his own Inte<lb></lb>
rest obtained & Licence your Petitioners considered that<lb></lb>
exhibitions of Fire works had been made in Public Gardens<lb></lb>
during upwards of twenty years without the Legality<lb></lb>
of such exhibitions being ever questioned. Your Petitioners<lb></lb>
therefore had not the last conception that they should be<lb></lb>
censured on this head by your Worships</p>
<p n="910">That influenced by such reasons your Petitioners entered into<lb></lb>
a Contract with Signor Torree' for the exhibition of Fire Works<lb></lb>
during the whole Term of their Lease of the said Gardens and<lb></lb>
assigned him a part of them for that purpose and Signor Torree'<lb></lb>
being to expend a considerable Sum in the erection of Buildings<lb></lb>
Etc. they entered into a Bond of one thousand Pounds for the<lb></lb>
observation of the said Contract.</p>
<p n="911">That at the last General Licencing upon Dr. Arnold's<lb></lb>
Application for a Licence he not expecting an Objection<lb></lb>
would made thereunto came unprepar'd with authority from<lb></lb>
either Signor Torree' or Mr. Berry to answer Objections or to<lb></lb>
enter into any promise that might include them such engage<lb></lb>
ment would have subjected him to the Penalty of his Bond<lb></lb>
from Signor Torree' and have tendered him answerable for the<lb></lb>
consequences of it to his Partner And Dr. Arnold has been<lb></lb>
since informed that he could not be released from such Bond<lb></lb>
without a Judgment in Law and that if he had promised to<lb></lb>
discontinue the said Fire, works upon his own Authority<lb></lb>
he must have been guilty of a breach of his Promise or have<lb></lb>
incurred the penalty of his Bond.</p>
<p n="912">That your Petitioners have been unhappy in falling under<lb></lb>
the censure of the Magistrates the<obscured></obscured>
Petition of whose<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
had impressed such a degree of Gratitude upon them that<lb></lb>
if they could have prevailed upon Signor Torree' to give up<lb></lb>
their engagement they would have instantly put & Stop to the</p>
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