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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE CASE OF Robert We&s;ton, NOMINATED By the Committe, as Regi&s;ter and Clerk of the Court of Con&s;cience, for the Divi&s;ion of the Burrough of <HI>Southwark,</HI> and Pari&s;hes adjacent.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Robert We&s;ton</HI> an Inhabitant within the Burrough of <HI>Southwark,</HI> be|ing a Per&s;on well known to Sir <HI>Peter Rich,</HI> Kt. and <HI>John Arnald,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Burge&s;&s;es for the &s;aid Burrough, to be fitly qualified for Regi&s;ter and Clerk of the Court of Con&s;cience, for the Divi&s;ion of the &s;aid Burrough and Pari&s;hes adjacent: And he being recommended for that purpo&s;e by &s;everal Hundred of the Inhabitants there (&s;ome of whom did formerly Expend con&s;iderable Sums of Money, in order to the obtaining a Court of Con&s;cience there;) and he having prepared a Bill for a Court of Con|&s;cience there only; and &s;ince this Bill brought in by another Hand, for the &s;etling Courts of Con&s;cience in the City of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and other Out Parts of the City of <HI>London</HI> (and in which, to ea&s;e the Charge, a Court of Con|&s;cience for the &s;aid Burrough was included.) The &s;aid <HI>Robert We&s;ton</HI> having attended this Honorable Hou&s;e, and the Committee, on behalf of the In|habitants of the &s;aid Burrough, in order to procure &s;ome Alterations and Amendments in the &s;aid Bill, which the Committee judged rea&s;onable, and agreed to. Sir <HI>Peter Rich</HI> and Mr. <HI>Arnold,</HI> together with re&s;t of the Com|mittee, to whom the Bill was committed, have Named him therein as Re|gi&s;ter and Clerk of the &s;aid Court of Con&s;cience.</P>
<P>It is now Humbly reque&s;ted, That you will be plea&s;ed to agree to the Bill, as to that particular; and continue him therein, he being capable of Executing the &s;aid Place of Regi&s;ter and Clerk, being brought up to the Law, and having &s;o behaved him&s;elf from his very fir&s;t beginning, that not only his Clients and Neighbours, but others, to whom he is known, will give this Honroable Hou&s;e as ample a Te&s;timony for him (if it &s;hall be required) as ever any Man of his Age, or Profe&s;&s;ion yet had.</P>
<P>He will likewi&s;e, to avoid any Colour of Clamor, Pay a proportionable Part of all &s;uch Charges as have been truly Expended in the pro|curing this Act.</P>
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