The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . do give Notice, That, if anyOverfeer for the Poor, Conftable, Beadle, Mar-fhals Man, Warder, or other Perfon, fhall ap-prehend any Rogue, Vagabond, or fturdy Beg-gar, and bring them before any Juftices ofthe Peace, fo that they may be brought anddelivered to and received by the Keeper of theWorkhoufe, he fhall receive twelve Pence forevery fuch. nors of thisHoufe. A Preferment of the Grand Jury, May 8, 1706,at Juftice-Hall in the Old-Bailey. Wherein they reprefented to that honourableCourt, That, in attending the Bufi
The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . do give Notice, That, if anyOverfeer for the Poor, Conftable, Beadle, Mar-fhals Man, Warder, or other Perfon, fhall ap-prehend any Rogue, Vagabond, or fturdy Beg-gar, and bring them before any Juftices ofthe Peace, fo that they may be brought anddelivered to and received by the Keeper of theWorkhoufe, he fhall receive twelve Pence forevery fuch. nors of thisHoufe. A Preferment of the Grand Jury, May 8, 1706,at Juftice-Hall in the Old-Bailey. Wherein they reprefented to that honourableCourt, That, in attending the Bufinefs of that Fewtr Seffions, they did not find any of thofe young young Cri- Criminals which formerly were ufed to be brought before them, and that their Attend- ance there was very fhort; which they were fenfible was owing, in a great Meafure, if not entirely, to the Workhoufe erected in the City, which received therein all poor and vagrant Children, which lay up and down in the Streets, commonly called by the Name of the Black Guard, minals byMeans ofthis Ifork- Book II. He HISTORY^/LONDON. 823 « ul(Itititti« Guard, and have been there educated^ em-ployed, and fitted for Trades and other Em-ployments, who had been before trained up toWickednefs and Vice; and, after having beenfrequently before this Court, and often par-doned on Account of their tender Years, hadat laft, taking no Warning, made their Exitat the Gallows. Wherefore they returnedtheir hearty Thanks to that honourable Court,and the reft of the Governors of that Houfe,for their great Fains therein, tyc. The Speech of John Trudy, aged eleven Tears, a?poor Boy belonging to the Workhoiife of the Corpo-ration for the Poor of the City of London, to herSacred Majefly Queen Anne, upon her cominginto the City, to dine at the Guildhall, on Thurf-day, October 29, 1702, being the Lord-Mayors Day. May it pleafe your moft excellent Majefly to pardon this great Prefumption in us poor Children^ who throw ourfelves at yo
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