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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>By the Major.</HEAD>
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<P>_WHereas the City of <HI>London,</HI> and the Liberties thereof, is exceedingly pe&s;tered with Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars, a&s;wel Men as Women, which wander abroad about the Streets and Lanes thereof, to the di&s;honour of the City, and grievance of the good Inhabitants of the &s;ame: The&s;e are therefore at the in&s;tance of the Corporation for &s;etting the Poore on worke within this City, &s;traightly to charge and command you, in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of <HI>England,</HI> by Authority of Parliament; That forthwith upon &s;ight hereof, you call before you your Deputy, and all the Con&s;ta|bles within your Ward, and give &s;traight charge unto the &s;aid Con&s;tables, that from henceforth from time to time they doe apprehend and take all manner of Rogues, Vaga|bonds and Sturdy Beggars, both Men and Women what|&s;oever, which &s;hall be found begging or wandring idlely abroad in any part of your Ward, and them from time to time either to puni&s;h at the Whipping-po&s;t according to the Law, and &s;o &s;end them away by Pa&s;&s;e to &s;uch place as the Law doth require; or otherwi&s;e to carry and convey them and every of them to <HI>Bridewell,</HI> where order is already taken for their imployment and &s;etting on worke: And that all and every the &s;aid Con&s;tables be from time to time a&s;&s;i&s;tant unto the Mar&s;halls of this City and their men, and every of them, for the conveying to <HI>Bridewell</HI> of all &s;uch Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars, as they or any of them &s;hall find or take up in any the Streets or Lanes of this City, or the Liberties thereof, as afore&s;aid. Whereof &s;ee you fail not, as you will an&s;wer the neglect of your Duty therein, and the contempt of this Precept, at the Se&s;&s;ions to be holden for the City.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated at the <HI>Guildhall London,</HI> <DATE>this <HI>22^t^h</HI> of <HI>March, 1649.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Sadler.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed by Richard Cotes, Printer to the Honorable City of LONDON, 1649&punc;</P>
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