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To the Worshipful His Majestys
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the fourteenth Year of His present Majestys Reign Intituled An Act for the
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day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
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ninety two and on divers other days and times as will before as since that
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day unlawfully did erect and build and cause to be erected and built in a certain
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