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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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the Peace for this County there to answer for their
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Harbouring such Inmates contrary to Law, and to
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Oblige the Churchwardens or Overseers of the
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Poor or Some other proper Persons to prosecute them
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for Such Offences
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The Annoyances in Markets by Stinking Meat
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and by Butchers from their
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Slaughter houses comeing also under consider
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on this occasion This Court is of opinion That an
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Offenders therein ought to be prosecuted and punished
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with the utmost severity And It is hereby recomended
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to the Justices of this County in their several Divisions
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on their own View or knowledge or on sufficient proof
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to bind over such Offenders and also some proper Person
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or Persons to prosecute them To the End that a stop
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may be Speedily put to such dangerous practices which
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are most likely to produce and spread the Plague in
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this Town
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And this Court takeing notice of the great and
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extravagent Number of Brandy
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and Geneva Shops
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whose Owners Retail their Liquors to the poorer Sort of
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People and do suffer them to sitt tipling in their Shops
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by which practice they are not only rendred incapable of
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labour to get an honest Livelyhood but (by their bodys
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being kept in a continued heat) are thereby more lyable to
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receive Infection, To prevent in Some measure those Evils
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for the future This Court is of opinion that the Justices be and
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they are hereby desired to suppress all Houses Shops and
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other places where these sort of Liguors are retailed
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without Licence and also to be very Cautious in Granting
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any New Licences to any Such Persons
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This Court likewise observing that great Numbers of Hogs
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are Kept by Brewers, Distillers Starch makers and other
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Persons within the Weekly Bills of Mortality contrary
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