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in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65399_geo3">Middlesex</rs>
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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King held at<lb></lb>
Westmr. in & for the Liberty of the Dean & Chapter of the Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St Peter Westmr. of the City Borough & Town of Westmr. in the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65399_geo4">Middlesex</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65399_geo5">St. Martins Le Grand</rs>
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London by Adjornment on Friday<lb></lb>
the Seventh day of June in the Seventh Year of the reign of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord George the Second King of Great Britain France & Ireland Defender<lb></lb>
of the faith before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65399_n3-1">John Gonson</rs>
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Knight <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65399_n3-2">John Mercer</rs>
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Gideon<lb></lb>
Harvey Owen Davies <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65399_occ1">Esquires</rs>
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and others their Fellowes Justices<lb></lb>
of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in the said Liberty<lb></lb>
& also to hear & determine divers Felonies Trespasses & other Misdeeds<lb></lb>
done & Committed within the Liberty aforesaid</p>
<p n="4">Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65399_n4-99">Borrow Linskill</rs>
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one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65399_occ2">Petty Constables</rs>
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within this Liberty & others did<lb></lb>
this day Exhibitt their humble Representation & Petition to this Court Setting forth that<lb></lb>
by an Act of Parliament Entitled an Act against Mutiny & Desertion & for the better<lb></lb>
regulating the quartering of Soldiers it is (amongst other things) Enacted That the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65399_occ3">Petty Constables</rs>
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in their proper Wards & districts Shall quarter & billett Soldiers in<lb></lb>
their Said respective Wards according to the knowledge they have of the most proper<lb></lb>
Publick houses to receive them & farther Setting forth that the High Constable of this<lb></lb>
City & Liberty contrary to the usuall method of quartering Soldiers hath quartered<lb></lb>
& billetted Soldiers all over the Said City & Liberty and thereby excluded the Petitioners<lb></lb>
from the right vested in them by the authority of Parliament & that thereby the King<lb></lb>
Subjects are greatly prejudiced by that the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65399_occ4">High Constable</rs>
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is not so capable of<lb></lb>
judging on whom to quarter Soldiers all over the Said City & Liberty as the Several<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65399_occ5">Petty Constables</rs>
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within their respective Wards & that the Said High Constable would<lb></lb>
not undertake so much trouble unless Some benefitt accrued to him thereby & also<lb></lb>
Setting forth that the Petitioners have received many complaints from the<lb></lb>
Inhabitants in their respective Wards of great hardshipps putt on them by the Said<lb></lb>
irregular method of quartering Soldiers which they cannot remedy unless the power<lb></lb>
vested by Law in the Said Petitioners but taken from them by the Said <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65399_occ6">High Constable</rs>
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be restored to them by the Authority of this Court and humbly praying this Court to<lb></lb>
take the Same into consideration & to grant them Such releif as Shall be right & just<lb></lb>
Now this Court this day taking into consideration the matter of the Said Petition doth<lb></lb>
hereby Order that the Said Petition & all things therein contained be & they are<lb></lb>
hereby referred to <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65399_n4-1">Thomas Deveil</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65399_n4-88">Alexander Choke</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65399_n4-77">Valentine Hilder</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65399_n4-66">Robert<lb></lb>
Midford</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65399_n4-2">William Miller</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65399_n4-3">Richard Manley</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65399_n4-4">Thomas Ward</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65399_occ7">Esquires</rs>
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& to Such<lb></lb>
others his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65399_occ8">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of this City & Liberty as Shall please to attend<lb></lb>
the Same or to any three of them to enquire into the facts contained in the Said<lb></lb>
Petition and to releive the Said Petitioners in Such manner as by Law & Justice they<lb></lb>
ought to be releived and this Court doth farther Order that the said Justices be desired<lb></lb>
to meet at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65399_geo6">Horn Tavern</rs>
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in New Pallace Yard within this Liberty on</p>
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