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