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<p n="15">To the Worshipful his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65459_occ4">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65459_geo7">City & Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. assembled<lb></lb>
at the Michaelmas Quarter Session of the peace held for the City & Liberty aforesaid on Wednesday the<lb></lb>
17th. day of October 1753</p>
<p n="16">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65459_n16-1">John Whitehead</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65459_n16-2">Mary Breyfield</rs>
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<p n="17"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That at the general quarter session of the peace holden<lb></lb>
for the City and Liberty aforesaid on Wednesday the 18th. day of October 1752 your<lb></lb>
Worships were pleased to grant License to your petitioners to keep a certain House<lb></lb>
for publick Dancing Musick or other publick entertainment of the like kind in a<lb></lb>
certain House called on known by the name of the New Theatre in <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65459_geo8">the Haymarket</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65459_geo9">Parish of St. Martin in the fields</rs>
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within the liberty of Westmr. aforesaid Which License was to<lb></lb>
continue in force until the present Michaelmas Quarter Session of the peace held for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65459_geo10">liberty aforesaid</rs>
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<p n="18">That your petitioners have in all things performed and<lb></lb>
fulfilled the Condition of the said License</p>
<p n="19">Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your<lb></lb>
Worships would be pleased to grant a New License to<lb></lb>
your petitioners for the said House for the purposes<lb></lb>
aforesaid to continue in force until the next Michaelmas<lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the peace to be holden for this Liberty</p>
<p n="20">And your Petrs. shall ever Pray Etc</p>
<p n="21"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65459_geo11">Whitehead</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65459_n21-1">Mary Brayfield</rs>
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