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<p n="57">To the Worshipful his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65460_occ17">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the City & Liberty of Westmr. Assembled at<lb></lb>
the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions of the peace held for the City and Liberty aforesaid on Wednesday the<lb></lb>
15th. Day of October 1755.</p>
<p n="58">The humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65460_n58-1">John Whitehead</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65460_n58-2">Mary Brayfield</rs>
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<p n="59"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That at the General Quarter Session of the peace holden for the City & Liberty<lb></lb>
aforesaid on Wednesday the 16th. day of October 1754 your Worships were pleased<lb></lb>
to Grant Licence to your petitioners to keep a certain House called or known<lb></lb>
by the name of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65460_geo29">New Theatre</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65460_geo30">Hay Market</rs>
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in the Parish of St. Martin in<lb></lb>
the fields in the Liberty aforesaid for public Dancing Musick or other public<lb></lb>
Entertainment of the like kind Which Licence was to continue in force until the<lb></lb>
present Michaelmas Quarter Session of the Peace held for the Liberty aforesaid</p>
<p n="60">That your Petitioners have in all things performed and fulfilled the Condition<lb></lb>
of the said Licence</p>
<p n="61">Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your<lb></lb>
Worships would be pleased to Grant a New Licence<lb></lb>
to 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<lb></lb>
Liberty</p>
<p n="62">And your petitioners shall ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="63"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65460_geo31">Whitehead</rs>
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<p n="64">Mary Brayfield</p>
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