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"A briefe treatise or discourse of the validitie or strength of the Commission of Bridewell, by Mr. Serj. [William] Fleetwood, serjeant at law", Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

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End. "And thus I doe conclude upon the whole matter, that the Commission of Bridewell would be well considered of by the learned counsell of the cittie; for I doe not thinke to the contrary but that there bee learned, that by their great knowledge in the law are well able, either in a Quo warranto or any other action brought, to defend the same".

Upon this the following note is subjoined: "And thus also do I conclude, viz., that the learned Serjeant having so well and so strongly argued against the validity or strength of the Commission of Bridewell, he had a deep ironical meaning in concluding as he has done. Oliver Acton, Steward of the same Bridewell Hospital, London, and of the Society of the Inner Temple, citizen and goldsmith, chosen Steward as aforesaid, 4 Apr. 1718, ♀".

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  • English

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MS. Rawl. D. 708, fol. 1

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