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<HEAD>&leaf; By the Major.</HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much as it is conceived and apprehended by the Court of Common-councell, that the Citie at the pre&s;ent is in great danger; And that the &s;ame doth require more then ordinary care for the preventing thereof: And for that purpo&s;e the &s;aid Court of Common-councell hath entred into con&s;ideration of what may conduce to the &s;afety of the Citie; and in pur&s;uance thereof, The&s;e are in His Maje&s;ties name &s;traitly to charge and command you, and every of you, That &s;ome of your &s;elves in your own per&s;ons, with &s;ome of your Con&s;tables, do pre&s;ently upon &s;ight hereof repair to every Hou&s;holder within your Ward, and give them &s;trict charge and command (as they will an&s;wer the contrary) that during this Night, to Morrow, to morrow at Night, Monday next, and Monday at night next, they do not &s;uffer any of their Children, Servants, or others under their command, to go abroad out of their Hou&s;es, but onely to morrow in their own company to Church. And further, that this Night, and to Morrow at night, &s;ome of your &s;elves, with &s;ome of your Con&s;tables doe make diligent &s;earch in all places within your Ward, where you &s;hall think fitting, for all per&s;ons that doe now lodge within the &s;ame; And that you cau&s;e their Names to be taken, and to enquire of them the cau&s;e of their lodging there: And &s;uch as you &s;hall finde to be Souldiers, to know of them where their Quarters are, and to require them pre&s;ently to repair thither according to their duties: And &s;uch as are dangerous people, to &s;ecure their per&s;ons, and cau&s;e them the next morning to be carryed before &s;ome of the Ju&s;tices of the Peace within the City, to be examined and di&s;po&s;ed of according to Law; and that you return the Names of all you &s;hall &s;o finde. And further that during the time afore&s;aid, you cau&s;e all the Gates and Po&s;terns within your Ward to be kept &s;hut; And that &s;ome of the Common-councel-men of the Ward within and without the Gate, may attend at the &s;ame, and have the Keys of the Gate, and give directi|ons for the opening of the &s;ame, as occa&s;ion &s;hall require, and not otherwi&s;e. And further, that you doe appoint one or more that you may tru&s;t, to &s;ee the Chaines within your Ward, during the &s;aid Three nights, to be put up and locked at Eleven of the clock in the night; and opened at Five of the clock in the morning: And that &s;ome be appointed to guard the &s;ame Chaines, that may be able to maintain them again&s;t any violence that may be offered. And la&s;tly, That you take &s;peciall Order, that during the time afore&s;aid, you cau&s;e a good and &s;ub&s;tantiall double Watch and Ward, to be con&s;tantly kept, of good and &s;ub&s;tantiall Hou&s;holders of your Ward within the &s;ame; and e&s;pecially at the Gates and Landing-places within your Ward: And that they &s;o order them&s;elves, that the one Watch and Ward may continue untill the other be &s;et. And that they be carefull to &s;ee the Peace and &s;afety of the City pre&s;erved: And that you bee carefull that all the&s;e things be put in execution and duly ob&s;erved, as you will an&s;wer the con|trary at your Perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dated</HI> <DATE><HI>this</HI> 29. <HI>of Aprill,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<HI>To the Alderman, Deputy, and Common-Councell-men, in the Ward of</HI>
<SIGNED>Michel.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed by <HI>Richard Cotes,</HI> Printer to the Honorable City of <HI>London,</HI> 1648.</P>
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