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To the Worshipfull His Majesties
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Justices
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The Humble Petition of
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Richard
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WM. Lovett
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Samuell
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Bradley
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James Noades
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and
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Theophilus Prosser
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. Constables of
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the Dutchy of
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in the said County of Middx
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Sheweth
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That the Liberty of the Dutchy of
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Lancaster
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in the said
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County for a Great many Years last past had a convenient Watch House
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in
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the strand
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somersett House
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which stood upon part of the Ground
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where the
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now stands and by the Commissioners was ordered
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to be pulled down.
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That since the said Watch House was pulled downe the
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Constables were for sometime obliged to keep their Watch House in the Church
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House of the
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Danes in the said Liberty for distant
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from the place were Comitted in the Streets; and for some time past the
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irregularityes were Comitted in the Streets; and for some time past the
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Constables of the said Liberty have been obliged to keep their Watch in the
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Round House in Strand Lane
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in the said Liberty farr out of the hearing
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of any Noise or publick Clamours in the Streets.
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That lately
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James Brett
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Esquire Secretary to his
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Grace the Duke of
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was Robbed and Barberously Wounded
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near
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and had the Watch house been in the place where
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it formerly stood or had the Constables been in the hearing of the Noise in
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the publick Streets the same might probably have been prevented.
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Your Petitioners Therefore most hundlg
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pray your Worshipps to take the pr, misses
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into your Consideration and give such
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directions therein as to your Worshipps
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shall seem most propee
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And your Petitioner. shall ever pray etc
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William Lovett
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Saml. Bradley
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James Nodes
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