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<p n="36"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City Borough and<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65476_geo44">Westmr</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65476_geo45">Middx</rs>
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Le Grand London}</note>
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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of<lb></lb>
our Lord the King held for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65476_geo47">Liberty of the Dean</rs>
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<lb></lb>
& Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65476_geo48">St. Peter</rs>
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Westmr. of the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65476_geo49">Middx</rs>
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& <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65476_geo50">St. Martins Le</rs>
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Grand London on Thursday to witt the<lb></lb>
Eighth Day of January in the Seventh<lb></lb>
Year of the reign of our <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65476_n36-1">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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<lb></lb>
George the Third now King of Great Britain<lb></lb>
France & Ireland Defender of the Faith before<lb></lb>
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Sir Henry<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65476_n36-3">Joseph Ayloff</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65476_n36-4">Houlding Barts</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65476_n36-5">Thomas Kynaston</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65476_n36-6">Roger Jackson</rs>
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and other their Fellows Justices of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King Assigned to keep the Peace within<lb></lb>
the said Liberty And also to hear & Determine<lb></lb>
divers Felonies Trespasses & other Misdeeds<lb></lb>
done & Comitted within the said Liberty</p>
<p n="37">Whereas by the Statute of the twelfth Year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
His<del>present</del>
Majesty King George the Second Intituled an act<lb></lb>
the more easy Assessing<del>and</del>
Collecting and levying of County Rates<lb></lb>
It is enacted that the <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65476_occ29">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the City and Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. shall have full power and authority to appoint the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65476_occ30">Governor</rs>
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of the House of Correction within the said City & Libty who<lb></lb>
shall have such sum of Money Yearly as had been accustom'd<lb></lb>
for & towards the support and maintenance of the Prisoners in<lb></lb>
his custody as shall be Sick & unable to work not exceeding £50<lb></lb>
by the Year and to direct the Treasurer or Treasures of the<lb></lb>
County of Middx to obey all orders which shall be made<lb></lb>
by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65476_occ31">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of the said City & Libty or the greater<lb></lb>
Part of them assembled in their General Quarter Sessions for the<lb></lb>
Payment of any Sum of Sums of Money for the Allowance alloted<lb></lb>
to such Governor a Master of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65476_geo52">House of Correction</rs>
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And<lb></lb>
Whereas at the General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for<lb></lb>
the said City & Libty on the 25th. Day of June last <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65476_n37-1">John Stephens</rs>
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then <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65476_occ32">Governor</rs>
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or Master of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65476_geo53">House of Correction</rs>
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<lb></lb>
exhibited his petition in the usual manner & form for the<lb></lb>
Sum of Twenty five pounds for half a Year's support and<lb></lb>
Maintenance of the said Prisoners due at Midsumer last Whereupon<lb></lb>
it was Ordered by the Court there that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65476_n37-2">John Stephens</rs>
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should<lb></lb>
give</p>
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