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<NAME>Judith Siefring</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CASE OF THE Undertakers and Promoters of the Bill for the <HI>Courts of Con&s;cience</HI> for the Borough of <HI>South|wark,</HI> the City and Liberties of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> the <HI>Tower Hamlets,</HI> and the remaining Out-Pari&s;hes of the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> within the Weekly Bills of Mortality.</HEAD>
<P>THat Mr. <HI>Thomas Pretyman</HI> with others, have been for &s;everal Years la&s;t pa&s;t concerned in endeavouring to obtain an Act for Erecting a <HI>Court of Con&s;cience</HI> for the &s;everal places above-men|tioned, and have Expended great Sums of Money, be&s;ides lo&s;s of Time, and great Attendance in carrying on the &s;ame; And in order to the Accompli&s;hing thereof, in the Year 1685, did bring in a Bill to the then Parliament to that effect, and after the fir&s;t Reading did pay their full Fees (as by Acquittance will appear) in order to a &s;econd Reading; but by the &s;udden Adjournment, and afterwards Prorogation and Di&s;&s;olution of the &s;aid Parliament, it could take no effect, to the great damage of the &s;aid Undertakers, who now upon a fre&s;h Encouragement, and at the Re|que&s;t of &s;everal of the Inhabitants of the Borough of <HI>Southwark,</HI> and others of the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> as likewi&s;e of &s;everal poor Pri&s;oners that have lain long in Pri&s;ons for &s;mall Debts under Forty Shillings (as by their &s;e|veral Petitions to this Honourable Hou&s;e may appear) have brought in a &s;econd Bill to the &s;ame purpo&s;e, and after the fir&s;t Reading paid in their full Fees in order to a &s;econd Reading, which is &s;ince done, and the Bill referred to a Committee, where they have likewi&s;e continually attended, and paid all Adjournment Fees, and all other Expences what&s;oever to this day.</P>
<P>That the Bill being now likely to take effect, there are &s;everal Per&s;ons (unknown to the Undertakers) Petitioning, and making their Applicati|ons to have their Names in&s;erted as Clerks and Regi&s;ters of the re&s;pective Divi&s;ions, though they have never been at one Penny expence, nor taken the lea&s;t pains in the Management of it.</P>
<P>The Undertakers therefore do humbly refer them&s;elves to the Honour and Ju&s;tice of this <HI>Honourable Hou&s;e,</HI> where they cannot but hope, as a Re|compence of their Trouble and great Charge, and an Encouragement to others to undertake things of the like nature for the Publick Good, they &s;hall have the benefit of having their Names in&s;erted in the &s;everal Divi&s;i|ons as Regi&s;ters and Clerks, with the Powers thereunto belonging, prefe|rable to any others, &s;o long as they &s;hall behave them&s;elves well in their re&s;pective Places and Employments.</P>
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