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<p n="1">To the Worshipful his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65465_occ1">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65465_geo1">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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assembled at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions of the peace for the City and Liberty<lb></lb>
aforesaid on Wednesday the 13th. day of October 1756</p>
<p n="2">The humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65465_n2-1">John Whiteheas</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65465_n2-2">Mary Brayfield</rs>
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<p n="3"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That at the General Quarter Session of the peace holden for the City and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65465_geo2">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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on Wednesday the 15th. day of October 1755 your Worships<lb></lb>
were pleased to grant License to your petitioners to keep a certain House called or<lb></lb>
known by the name of the New Theatre in <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65465_geo3">the Haymarket</rs>
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in the parish of St<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65465_geo4">Martin in the fields</rs>
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in the Liberty aforesaid for public Dancing Musick or other<lb></lb>
Publick Entertainment of the like kind Which Licence was to continue in force<lb></lb>
until the present Michaelmas Quarter Session of the peace held for the Liberty<lb></lb>
aforesaid</p>
<p n="4">That your petitioners have in all things performed and fulfilled the<lb></lb>
Condition of the said License</p>
<p n="5">Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your<lb></lb>
Worships would be pleased to grant a New License<lb></lb>
to Your Petitioners for the said House for the<lb></lb>
purposes aforesaid to continue in force until the<lb></lb>
next Michaelmas Quarter Session of the Peace to be<lb></lb>
holden for this Liberty</p>
<p n="6">And Your petitioners shall ever prat Etc</p>
<p n="7"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65465_geo5">Whitehead</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65465_n7-1">Mary Brayfied</rs>
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