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  EEBO-TCP (Phase 2)
  
  By the mayor the right honourable the lord mayor of the City of London, taking especial notice of inordinate liberty now used by vagrants and common beggars to wander about and pester the streets and common passage of this city ... and His Lordship deeply resenting the great fault and neglect of constables and other officers in not performing their duty to clear and free the streets and publick places from this living nuisance ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  City of London (England). Lord Mayor.
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  Other title information from first paragraph of text. "Dated at Guildhall, this Thirteenth day of October, 1676. and in the Eight and Twentieth Year of His Majesties Reign." Reproduction of original in Guildhall Library ...
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  EEBO-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  By the mayor, to the alderman of the ward of [blank] whereas divers good laws have been made, and are still in force, for the suppressing and punishing of vagrants, vagabonds, and other idle persons ...
  Date of publication:
  1687
  

  Author(s):

  City of London (England). Lord Mayor.
  Description:
  Form letter. "Given this 15th Day of March, 1686/7. Wagstaffe." Reproduction of original in Guildhall Library (London, England).
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