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more Company and of greater rank thither and great
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Numbers of people already resort to and play at those plat
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Nor is there any part of this Town, wherein the Number
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of Ale houses Brandy and Geneva shops do not daily
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increase tho' they are so numerous already that in
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some of the large of parishes, every Tenth House at least
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sells one sort or other of those Liquors by Retaile
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And this we humbly offer, as the principal cause of the
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Increase of our Poor, and of all the Vice and Debanchery
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among the Inferior sort of People, as well as of the
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Felonies and other Disorders comitted in and about
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this town
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We have perused and considered of the Laws & Statutes
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now in force for Suppressing & Reforming these abuses &
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of the powers thereby given us, which tho' they seem to be
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very large & sufficient yet the good purposes intended
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by them, are in great measure prevented by season of
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some Defects in those Laws, and of severall difficulties
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we meet with in Execution of them of which we beg leave
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to lay before your Lordship the following particulars.
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As those who frequent any of the Disorderly Houses above
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mentioned will never informe against them, It is very
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difficult to find out the Persons who keep them, and the
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names & plates of abode of those who resort to them, and yet
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more difficult to got legall Evidence against them by any
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other means than frequently searching the Houses and
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taking them in the Fact and this is rendred in a manner
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in effectuall by the method they are all of late fallen into
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(especially at gameing Houses) of keeping their Doors
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shut against our Officers and all they suspect, whereby as
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has been often firmely Experience they prevent and elude
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our Endeavours to punish or suppress them, the Law not
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impowering as or over officers (as we humbly conceive)
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to break open Doors on any Searches tho' after demand
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and refusall of admittance
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We are also under a very great Difficulty, with respect to the
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great number of Ale houses and Brandy Shops, the best, if
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not the only method. We know of, to prevent ye. inconveniencies
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arising front them, is to suppress such as are disorderly or
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superflous,& to punish those, who sell without license,
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