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Resolution from the First Meeting at Hexham

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     Northumberland


 The Agents of Noblemen and Gentlemen having property
 in this County and not resident therein are hereby In pursuance
of the Resolution at a General Meeting of the Gentlemen and
Clergy of this County held at Hexham the 19th instant for
receiving Informations of the Loss and Damage which many of
the Inhabitants of the said County have sustained by the late
dreadful and destructive Inundation and for processing a speedy
    The Agents of Noblemen & Gentlemen having property in this county and not
                 resident therein are hereby
Relief to the unhappy Sufferers.  ^   desired forthwith to transmit
to their Masters the Resolutions of the said General Meeting
which Resolutions  were are inserted in this paper. {???}

                  By Order of the Committee at their
                                          Grand Jury Room
                  first Meeting held at the Town hall in
                  Hexham the 23rd day of December 1771

                         Lanct Heron Clerk to the
                            Committee

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