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Folio 92. Matthew King of Wild Street 'undertaker of funerals' to the Board of Lieutenancy...

Catalogue reference: SP 36/156/1/92

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This record is about the Folio 92. Matthew King of Wild Street 'undertaker of funerals' to the Board of Lieutenancy... dating from [1747] in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 36/156/1/92
Date
[1747]
Description

Folio 92. Matthew King of Wild Street 'undertaker of funerals' to the Board of Lieutenancy for Middlesex. Petition that at the beginning of the late [Jacobite] Rebellion he voluntarily went before Lord William Pawlen and the other Justices of the Peace for Middlesex and entered into a recognizance for his good behaviour and appearance at the then next quarter sessions; subsequently his house was searched for arms by Captain Smart, his pistols and other goods seized and himself committed to Newgate till the next sessions when he was discharged without prosecution. He begs pardon for any crime he has been guilty of, will conduct himself in future so as to give no offence and prays that his goods and pictures, now in the custody of the messenger, be returned to him it being almost two years since they were seized. Endorsed 'to be taken into consideration the next Board day'.

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Language
English
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