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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King held at
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Westmr. in & for the Liberty of the Dean & Chapter of the Collegiate Church
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the Seventh day of June in the Seventh Year of the reign of our Sovereign
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Lord George the Second King of Great Britain France & Ireland Defender
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of the faith before Sir
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of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in the said Liberty
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within this Liberty & others did
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this day Exhibitt their humble Representation & Petition to this Court Setting forth that
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by an Act of Parliament Entitled an Act against Mutiny & Desertion & for the better
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regulating the quartering of Soldiers it is (amongst other things) Enacted That the
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in their proper Wards & districts Shall quarter & billett Soldiers in
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their Said respective Wards according to the knowledge they have of the most proper
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Publick houses to receive them & farther Setting forth that the High Constable of this
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City & Liberty contrary to the usuall method of quartering Soldiers hath quartered
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from the right vested in them by the authority of Parliament & that thereby the King
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Subjects are greatly prejudiced by that the said
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is not so capable of
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judging on whom to quarter Soldiers all over the Said City & Liberty as the Several
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within their respective Wards & that the Said High Constable would
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not undertake so much trouble unless Some benefitt accrued to him thereby & also
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Setting forth that the Petitioners have received many complaints from the
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Inhabitants in their respective Wards of great hardshipps putt on them by the Said
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irregular method of quartering Soldiers which they cannot remedy unless the power
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vested by Law in the Said Petitioners but taken from them by the Said
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be restored to them by the Authority of this Court and humbly praying this Court to
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take the Same into consideration & to grant them Such releif as Shall be right & just
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hereby Order that the Said Petition & all things therein contained be & they are
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Petition and to releive the Said Petitioners in Such manner as by Law & Justice they
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ought to be releived and this Court doth farther Order that the said Justices be desired
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