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 REPORT 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 COMMITTEE, 
 
 TO WHOM THE 
 
 PETITION 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, and 
 
 great Numbers of the Inhabitants of the feveral Parifties of 
 St. Giles in the Fiehfsy the Liberty of Safron-hill^ Hatton- 
 garden^ and Ely Rents in the Parifh of St. Andrew Holbourn ; 
 Sx..DtinJian Stepney^ St. Paul Shadwell^ St. Anne in Middle fex, 
 St. Sepulchres in Middle/ex^ St. Ltike^ Middlejex, and St. J-ames 
 Clerkenwell in the County of MiddlefeXy whofe Names are 
 thereunto fubfcribed on behalf of themfelves, and the reft 
 of the Parifties of the iaid County j 
 
 AND ALSO 
 
 The Petition of His Majefty's Juftices of the Peace for the 
 County of Middlefex, in their General Sefiions aflembled, were 
 Referred. 
 
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 REPORT 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 C O M M I T T E E, <z^^. 
 
 
 H E Committee to whom the Petition of the Church- 
 
 B Wardens, Overleers of the Poor, and great Num- 
 
 I bers of the Inhabitants of the feveral Parifhes of 
 
 ""^^ St. Giles iti the Fields^ the Liberty of Safflon-Hill^ 
 
 o Hatton-garden and Ely Rents, in the Parifli of St. Andrew 
 
 _j Holhouriiy St. Danfian Stepney^ St. 'l^cml Shadwell^ St. Anne in 
 
 ^ Middlefex^ St. Sepulchres in Middlejex^ St. Z^ytt- Middlefex^ and 
 
 St. Jan2es Clerke>iwell in the County of Middlejex^ whofe 
 
 Names are thereunto fubfcribed, in behalf of themfelves and 
 
 the reft of the Parifhes of the faid County ; And alfo 
 
 The Petition of his Majefty's Juftices of the Peace for the 
 County of Middle/ex^ in their General Seflions affenibled, were 
 referred, have, puriuant to the Order of the Houfe, examined 
 the Matter of the laid Petitions. 
 
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 o^ And in order to prove, That the Juftices of the Peace had, 
 for many Years laft paft, levied very large Sums of Money on 
 the Inhabitants of the County of Middkfix ; the Petitioners 
 mentioned in the hrft Petition, produced and read divers Or- 
 ders of the Qiiarcer Seflions, for making feveral Pvates for paC- 
 
 fins: 
 
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 fing Vagrants in the Years i/aa, 1726, 172^, 1731 and 1734J 
 and for eftabliihing Treafurers for Goiiecting the fame, viz. 
 
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 In the Year 1722 • Sco 
 
 1726 Sco 
 
 1725) ■ 800 
 
 1 73 1 800 
 
 ^734 Soo 
 
 Total 4000 
 
 And leveral Orders of the faid Treafurers to the refpedive 
 High Conftables of each Divifion for collecling the fame, 
 were likewife produced and read. 
 
 They then called 
 
 Thomas Jones^ High Conftable for Hdlmirn Divifion, in the 
 Year 1722, who faid, That he was appointed Treafurer of the 
 Monies for pafTing Vagrants, in the Year 1722 ; that hereceiv'd 
 a Rate for 800 /. on the whole County, with Diredions not 
 to colled 272 /. 6 s. lid. being Part thereof, affeffed on the 
 Liberties of M'^efimin/ier^ they having a Treafurer of their 
 own : Nor the Sum of 5 /. ii s. id. another Part of the faid 
 Rate, being affefs'd on the Liberties of the Tower within and 
 without, Trinity Minories, and the Old Jlrtilkiy Ground. That 
 he coUeded upon the faid Rate, the Sum of 423 /. i s. That 
 in the latter End of the Year 1725, or Beginning of the Year 
 1726, he acquainted the SefHons, that he had paid 54/ more than 
 he had received on the faid Rate j that thereupon the Seflions 
 ordered another Rate for the like Sum ; that he colleded but 
 little on the fecond Rate. That in the Year 1728, Mr. Catef- 
 ■worth was appointed Treafurer; that he was ordered to leave his 
 Accounts and Vouchers with Mr. l^f'ilkifj/on, in order that they 
 might be infpeded by the Committee of Accounts. That he 
 had attended the laid Committee ; but had never had any Ac- 
 counts figned. 
 
 Being asked. How his Account came not to be figned ? he 
 faid. That he had over-paid of the Rate i72(?, 16 /. that the 
 Juftices refulcd to allow him the fame ^ and, that they like- 
 wife refuled to make him the Allowances ufually made to other 
 Conftables. 
 
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 Being asked,' If lie hadnever been prolccotcd for not making 
 up his Accounts ? he faid, ifc had heard that he was prole- 
 cuted at a Court held at an Alc-houle in Gray <>- inn- lane \ that 
 his Attorneys advilld him to remove the lame into the King:. 
 Bench ; and, that the laid Prolecution coft him ij /. ; that the 
 fame never came to Trial, nor does he know how it ended. 
 
 Being asked, If he was not advilcd by his Attorneys to at- 
 tend at Hich's Hal/y and make up his Accounts? he laid, He 
 was, and that he defired it might be made up by Gentlemen ot 
 Reputation : He I ike wife faid, That John AJil/itr^ Efq; one of 
 his Majefty's Jufticcs of the Peace, advifed him to attend the 
 Committee, and make up his Accounts j and promilcd him that 
 he Ihould be fafe in going and returning ; that he laid to 
 Mr. Mihier, You know that I have been at great Expencc, 
 paid more than I have received, and am allowed nothing as 
 others have been, nor am I allowed the Money I over-paid for 
 Vagrants. That Mr. Milner replied. The Committee had not 
 Power to make luch Allowances, but that he mull apply to the 
 
 effions for them, 
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 Being asked, If he had ever applied to the SelTions ? he 
 faid, No. 
 
 Mr. Philip Betty^ High Conftable of the T'ower Divifion, 
 produced a Warrant from William Cotefwortb^ Elq; Treafurer 
 for the Vagrant Money for the Year \'7^^■, dated the 13th of 
 November in the fame Year, for levying the Sum of 155 /. 2 s. 
 and zd. upon his Divifion; and faid, that he raifed the Whole 
 except the 5 /. i% s. i d. airefled on trinity Minories^ being 
 I45> /. 11 s. id. and paid the fame to iSix.CoteJworthy without 
 having any Allowance made to him. 
 
 Being asked. If he had never heard of any Poundage, or 
 Prefent, being due to him as High Conftable ? he faid, He 
 had never heard of any. 
 
 He further faid, That he received a Rate for the like Sum, 
 dated Aagufi 20. 1731. figned by Andre'uj Osborne^ Efq; the 
 then Treafurer ; that upon that Rate he paid to the faid Mr. 
 Osborne the Sum of 1 26 /. 1 1 j. 0. d. and to Mr. 'John Higgs^ a 
 fubfequent Treafurer, 11/. 1 7 j. 3 c/. that there remains uncol- 
 lefted from the trinity Minories 5 /. 1 2 j. \d. and from the Pa- 
 riih of Chriji'church r i /. is. % d. that he received an Order 
 
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 dated May aj. 1734. for the like Rate, figned by Mr. foln 
 Hig<rs, the then Treaiurer; that he raifed upon the fame 115/; 
 16 1 3^. which he paid to the faid Mr. Higgs; that there is 
 unpaid of the faid Levy, from the "trinity Miuories, 5 /. la s. 
 id. from the Parifh of Chrifl-ckurch, 13/. 17 i. 8 ^. from 
 Ratclif, 8 /. 1 3 J. I d. and from Shadzusl/, which refufed to 
 pay the faid Rate, the Sum of 11/. is. 8 d- 
 
 He further fud, That the fiid Rate had fince been qualhed 
 in the Kif'g's Bench. 
 
 He then produced an Order, dated jfaly 1. iy^6. figned by 
 the faid Johu Higgs, to levy the Sum of 14^/. loj. i d. upon 
 his Divifion j but faid, That he had colleded nothing upon 
 that Rate. 
 
 He likewlfe produced an Order from the Quarter Seillons, 
 dated Afay 3. 173^. and faid, That he ilfued his Precepts in 
 purfuance thereof to the particular Peifons who did not pay the 
 Rate in 1734, but they refufed to pay it ; that he was directed 
 to allow this Rate to all who had paid the former; that the 
 Orders of 1734 and 1 7315 were both quafhed in the King's Bench. 
 
 Mr. fames Hharpkfs^ High Conftable of Holhoitrn Divifion, 
 faid, That he was appointed High Conftable in the Year 172S. 
 that the firft Vagrant Rate that he received, was in the Year 
 1730. that the Sum to be coUefted was 156/. 8 j. upon his 
 Divifion only ; that he coUeded thereon 45*/. \i s. that he paid 
 the fame to Mr. Higgs, when he went out of his Office ; that 
 he never disburled any Money himfelf; that fevcral Petty Con- 
 ftables did bring him Vagrant Bills ; but that ac that time he 
 had no Money to pay them, it being before the Rate was granted. 
 
 Being asked. If he had any Poundage allowed him? he faid, 
 That he never heard of any being due ; that he demanded Five 
 Pounds for his Expences, and retained the lame in his Hands j 
 but that the Jufticea refufed to allow it him. 
 
 Mr. ffillium Lofi/dale, High Conftable of KetiffngtoM DWiCion, 
 faid. That he was chofen into that Office in the Year 1727 ; 
 that in the Year 1725^ he received an Order, dated the 13th of 
 Novtml'cr^ and figned hiirtarn Cotef-xorth^ Treafurer, for col- 
 luding the Sum of 42 A o j. 8 d. for his Divifion, for pafiing 
 of Vagrants. 
 
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 Mr. John fj'irgs^ being called upon, produced the laid Lonf-, 
 Jiile's Account figncd by him, and which he acknowledged to 
 be his Account j by which it appeared, that he had collcdcd 
 on the fuid Rate the Sum of i 8 /. 1 3 j-. 8 c/. 
 
 The faid Lonfdak^ being further examined, faid, That he 
 had been fined by the faid Juftices, at different times, the Sum 
 of Fourfcore Pounds ; to wit, /. 10, /.20, /.:io, and /. 30, for not 
 making up his Accounts; that he had attended Mr. H'iggs feve- 
 ral times, to fettle his Accounts ; but that Mr. Higgs would not 
 allow him izd. fer Mile for paffing Vagrants, the Order of SeU 
 fions being for 5^. only. 
 
 He further laid, That particular Juftices, viz. Sir Henry 
 V'lment^ Mr. Serjeant Bircl\ Sir I'hotikis Colby ^ Mr. Barker^ and 
 others, had made him the Allowance of 12 d. per Mile 3 and 
 that this Diipute was iheReafon that his Account was not lettled. 
 
 He then produced another Order, ^2itQ^ Jiigiiji 10. 1731. 
 and figned Andiew Oshoniey Treafurer, directing him to levy 
 the like Sum of 4a /. o f. 8 d. for palling of Vagrants ; and 
 faid, That he colleded the whole Rate, and likewife the Arrear 
 of 172^, that he delivered all his Papers to Mr. Higgs. 
 
 Being crofs-examined, he faid. That he believed he did not 
 receive all the Rate ; for that Mr. Vemr told him, That it was 
 the Opinion of the judges, that there was no Law to enforce 
 the Payment of it, and that it was an illegal Rate; and that he 
 the faid Mr. Vemr bid him tell Sir Thomas Ahney the Chairman 
 fo. 
 
 Being asked, Whether he paid the Petty Conftables the Certi- 
 ficates for palling Vagrants in the Year 1731 ? he faid, He did 
 not know. 
 
 He then produced another Order, dated Mny ly. 1734. and 
 figned "^johii Higgs, for coUeding the like Sum of 42 /. o s. 8 d. 
 for the pafling of Vagrants; and faid, That he coliefted the 
 Whole, and paid all of it to Mr, H'/ggSy except what he paid 
 for Certificates. 
 
 Being asked. Why he paid thefeCertificatcs,and not the others? 
 he fiid. He could not tell ; that if he had not allowed 1 1 d. per 
 Mile, he muft have difobliged all the Juftices in the Limits ; 
 
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 chiC Sir Henry Vincent was very angry, and came often to Sef- 
 (ions to get the faid Allowance of \^ d. per Mile eftablifh'd. 
 
 Mr. Richard Wejion, High Conftahle for Finsbury Divifion 
 from the Year 1728 to the Year 1732, faid, That he paid the 
 Sum of J7 I. 7 s. 6 d. to fViUiatn Cotejworth^ Elq; and j /. the 
 Remainder of the faid Rate, to Mr. John Higgs. 
 
 Mr. Edward Htitchins^ High Conftable of Finshary Divifion, 
 faid, That he was chofen in that Office in the Year 1731 i that 
 he receiv'd an Order for coUeding on his Divifion the Sum of 
 6z l.ys. 6 d.y that he coUedled the whole, and paid it to Mr. 
 
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 Mr. Alexander Clarke^ High Conftable of Holborn Divifion, 
 being examin'd, laid, That he receiv'd an Order dated July 
 the 13th, 1734 i and fign'd by yohn Higgs Treafurer, for col- 
 lecting the Sum of 156/. 8j. on his Divifion, for palling of Va- 
 grants ; that he receiv'd of the faid Rate ^61. o s. 10^. and 
 that there remains in Arrear the Sum of 60/. y j. id. from the 
 Parifh of St. G/7w, and the Liberty of the Rolls ^ that he paid 
 74 /. 3 J. ^d. to Mr. Kiggs i that he retain'd the Remainder in 
 his Hands, becaufe he had a Profecution againit him, at the 
 Suit of vhomas PVyhorn^ Conftable of Saffron -HiU^ Hat ton- 
 Gar den and Ely-Rent Sy for levying the laid Rate in that Divi- 
 lion \ that Mr. Robe advis'd him, not to pay the Money ; and 
 faid. That he would want it again : That he came often to himj 
 and faid. The Juftices were a Pack of good-for-nothing, rafcally, 
 roguilh Fellows and Villains ; but that he named no particular 
 Perfons, nor gave any Reafon why they were fo; that he the 
 laid Kobe faid, He had 500 /. and that he would fpend it againft 
 the Juftices, before they fliould go on as they did, and bam- 
 boozle the County. 
 
 The Petitioners then proceeded to produce and read divers 
 Orders of the Qiiarter Selllons for making feveral Rates for the 
 Kings Benchy Marjljalfea^ Hofpitals and Almhoufcs for the 
 Years 172a, 1723, 1724, 1725, and 1726, amounting in the 
 whole to 128/. 13 J.: To prove how much whereof had been 
 rais'd, they called 
 
 Thomas 'Jonesy High Conftable of Holborn Divifion, who 
 faid. That in the Year 1722, he was appointed Treafurer of 
 the Rates to be levied for Marfjalfea and King's Bench ; thac 
 
 foon
 
 loon after his Appointment, he receiv'd of Mr. Nathaniel Chand- 
 ler^ a former Treafurer, the Sum of 85/. i^s. 10 d.-^ and foon 
 after that, o'i ]Ax. John M'lUs^ likewile a former Treafurer, the 
 Sum of 170/. ; that he receiv'd Orders for levying Money for 
 the faid Purpofes, in the Years 1722, 1723, 1724, and 172,5 i 
 and receiv'd the whole of the three firft Rates, and Part of the 
 laft, but knows not how much ; that he paid 285/. xy s. 4^- 
 io Six Daniel Dol'ws, Knight. 
 
 Mr. 'James Sharplefsy High Conftable of liolhorn Divifion, 
 produced an Order appointing him Treafurer for the fame, for 
 the Year 1728, and laid. That the Rate was for 31 /. loj. 5^. ; 
 that he coliedled thereon 17 /. 17 j. dd.^ that the Places which 
 remain'd in Arrear were Wcfimtufier^ Ket2ftngtoti and Edinonton ; 
 and that they refufed to pay him ; that he acquainted the Ju- 
 ftices therewith, but had no further Order about it ; that he 
 apprehended, that he had no Power to diftrain for the fame, 
 and therefore never applied for a Precept to diftrain. 
 
 He then produc'd another Orde^c dated the 27th of Jfr'il^ 
 172^, for a like Rate, and faid, That he colleded on that, 
 12/. 13 i. 6 J. that the Churchwarden of the Rolls Liberty told 
 him, that he had Money, but that' Mr. Burdus^ a Gentleman 
 in the Commiflion of the Peace, advis'd him not to pay it; 
 that he had a like Anfwer from the Con^zhle oi Hamp fie ad ^ 
 who told him. That Mr. Jenner^ a Gentleman in the Commiflion 
 of the Peace, ordered him not to pay it. 
 
 He then produc'd another Order, dated the ^th Day of 
 
 ■jipril 17^0, for a like Rate, and faid, That he colleded on 
 
 that, the Sum of 2 /. 9 j. 10 d. only ; that he was foon after dif- 
 
 charged from the Office of High Conftable, which prevented 
 
 him from coUeding the Remainder. 
 
 The Petitioners then proceeded to produce and read divers 
 Orders of the Quarter Seflions, for making feveral Rates for the 
 Relief of maimed Soldiers and Mariners, in the Years 1721, 
 1722, 1723, 1724, 1725, 172^, 1727, 1728, 1725), 17^0, 
 '^73^'> ^73'^^ f'Of" ^he Hundreds of OJJidfiuny Edmonton and 
 Gore^ amounting in the whole to 1054/. 6j. and alio in the 
 fame Years for the Hundreds of Elthorne^ Spelthorne and IJls' 
 "worthy amounting in the whole to 546 /. 4 j. 4 d. 
 
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 Mr. James Sharplefsy Conftablc of Holborn Divifion, faid, 
 That in the Year 1728 he had an Order to coUeft the Sum of 
 15/. 17 J. 4 ^. for the Relief of maimed Soldiers and Mariners; 
 and that he collecled the whole, and paid it to Mr. Barvoell 
 Smithy Treafurcr thereof. 
 
 That he had a like Order in the Year 1720, that he col- 
 leddd thereon 5 /. i a j. 8 i. which he paid to Mr. Higgi ; that 
 the Parifhes of St. G'lks^ St. Andrew, St. Mary le Bone, 
 Hampfteady and the Rolls, refufed to pay ; that he had a like 
 Warrant, dated the i8th Day of jf//»^, 1730, and fign'd 'T^w^-Ji 
 M'ilner Treafurer ; that he receiv'd thereon the Sum of i /. 6 s. 
 only, from the Pariih of St. Mary le BonCy and paid that like- 
 wife to Mr. HJggs. 
 
 The Petitioners then proceeded to produce and read divers 
 Orders of the Quarter SelTions, for making feveral Rates for 
 the repairing of Bridges for the Years 1723, 1726, 1735, 
 amounting in the whole to 1 600 /. viz. 
 
 In the Year 1723 ^00 
 
 172^ • 800 
 
 ^735 ■ 200 
 
 Total 1 600 1. 
 
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 To prove how much whereof had been raifed, they called 
 
 Mr. fVilliam Lonfdaky High Conftable of Kenjington Divi- 
 fion, who faid. That he colle£led 10/. \os. for a Bridge Rate, 
 and paid it to Mr. Henry Barker, but does not know what Year 
 it was in ; but by an Account produced by Mr. Higgs, it ap- 
 peared to your Committee to be in the Year 1731. 
 
 Mr. I'homas 'Jones, High Conftablc of //c/J^orw Divifion, faid, 
 That upon the Bridge Rate in the Year 1723, he receiv'd the 
 Sum of 117/. 6 s. and that he paid the whole to Sir Ifaac T'tl- 
 lard, except 4 /. 4 j. i d. 
 
 The Petitioners then proceeded to fhew, how the feveral 
 Sums of Money collected by virtue of the faid Rates had been 
 milapplicd \ and in order to do the fame, produced and read 
 7"wo Orders of Seffions, direding Monies rais'd for the Relief of 
 maimed Soldiers, Mariners, and for paffing of Vagrants, to be 
 
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 applied to the repairing of Hicks's Hall ; the Firft of which 
 bears Date Maytht 30th, 1723, for 400 /. ; the next, May the 
 cjth, 1726, for the Sum of 662/. ^y s. j; ^/. making together 
 the Sum of 1060.1. ly s. p d. being the Sum expended in Pur- 
 luance of Two Orders of Seffions, the Firft bearing Date Fe-' 
 /jruary the ijtb, 1722; and the other the nth Day of jTk//,. 
 1723; altho' by a Report confirm'd by the faid Orders, the 
 fame was eftimated at 6j^ I. 17 j. 6d. only. 
 
 But your Committee think proper to obferve, that in the Re- 
 port of the Juftices concerning this Affair, confirmed by the 
 Ordtr oi' May the 26th 1726. there is contained the following 
 Obfervation ; viz. That with regard to the great Sums the 
 Repairs anioimt to beyond what was computed or expected, 
 in their ^Examination of the Workmens Bills, they could not 
 have the Satisfaction they hoped for as to the Reafonablencls 
 of them, by reafon of the long Sicknefs and Death of Sir Thomas 
 Hewit., who was chiefly relied on, and had two Perfons em- 
 ployed under him to infpeft, meafure, and value the Work, 
 and to fee Juftice done; but inftead of doing any Service, or 
 difcovering any Fraud or Error, or making any Abatement of 
 the Demand, they certified under their Hands for every Work- 
 man in every Particular as charged by them in their Bills; tho^ 
 feveral of tiie Workmen thought fit to confent to large Abate- 
 ments. 
 
 The Petitioners then proceeded to read feveral other Orders, 
 directing further Sums of Monies to be paid out of the faid 
 Rates, for the Repair of Hicks's Hal/, amounting in the whole 
 1087/. I4J-. ic^^. And out of the fame Rates for the Repair 
 of Nezv Frijo//, the Sum of (^61, i s. lod. 
 
 They then produced an Order bearing Date, December the 
 28th I72<^. directing Philip PVilfhire^ Efq; to pay out of the 
 Money colleded for the Repair of Bridges, the Sum of 49 /. 17 j. 
 2. d. to Miirj Offley, Widow, and Executrix of 'John Ofjley^ Ffq; 
 late Treafurer of the Haymarket ; the fame to be refunded or 
 repaid to the faid 'T'hilip Hlljbire., or his Succeffor, by the Trea- 
 furer of the Toll for the faid Haymarket. 
 
 And another Order bearing Date the 2(pth oi April 1731. for 
 reimburfing Richard-'Norwood^ High Conftable of the Hundred 
 of Eilhornf, the Sum of 28 /. being his Cofts in an Adion brought 
 againft him by the Clerk of the Marker, out of the firft Money 
 
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 that fhould come into the Hands of any Treafurer ; and alfo two 
 Orders bearing Date 'Ja>iuary the 13th, and February the 24th 
 1 73 1, impowering Mr. Juhn Htggs to retain to himfelf the 
 Sum of 85) /. 18 s. and to pay to xMr. 'John Matthews^ the Sum 
 of 10/. 5 J. id. making together the Sum of 100/. 3 j. id. 
 for defending the faid Richard Norzvood. 
 
 An^ another Order, bearing T>niQ February the aSth 1733. 
 for the faid Mr. John H'lggs to retain in his Hands out of the 
 publick Monies, the Sum of 23/. ijj. 6 d. for NonprofTing an 
 A£lion brought againft the Hundred ofOJJiilflon for a pretended 
 Robbery ; and for profecuting Mojes ^Peters, Clerk to Clifford 
 William 'Philips., Efq; one of his Majefty's Juftices of the Peace 
 ior the County of MiddlefeXy for Extortion. 
 
 And another Order, dated Anguft the apth 1734. direding 
 the Sum of 20 /. to be paid out of the pubHck Money, fo much 
 being the Bill of the faid Mr. Higgs^ for carrying on the faid 
 Profecution againft Peters in the King's Bench^ till Judgment 
 and Execution. 
 
 And another Order of Afril the ajth 1734. by which the 
 Sum of 10/. was allowed Mr. Higgs, over and above the Ex- 
 pcnce of any Profecution, to get in and receive the Monies or- 
 dered to be raifed and coUeded by virtue of a Rate made Afril 
 the ajth 1734. for raifing 800/. for palling Vagrants. 
 
 And another Order made jfune the 3d 1731. by which the 
 faid Mr. John Higgs was appointed Treafurer of the Vagrant 
 Rate, and a yearly Salary allowed to him of 2j/. which 
 from "June 1731. to June 1736. amounted to laj/. 
 
 And another Order, dated ^^r// the 25th 1734. by which 
 the Sum of 1 1 /. 1 1 j. was direftcd to be paid out of tfie publick 
 Monies, to T'homas H'ilkitijdn, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, for 
 printing Advertifements from Day to Day concerning the Elec- 
 tion of Reprcfentatives for the County of Middlejex. 
 
 And another Order of the fame Date, by which 3 /. ^ s. was 
 ordered to be paid out of the laid Monies, to Thomas Brvmley^ 
 Crycr of Hicks' s Hall, for HorfeHirc, and Expences in deliver- 
 ing icveral Letters to Juftices to meet, concerning Reprefenta-f 
 tives for the County of Aliddkfex. 
 
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 All which faid Sums of Money, the Petitioners alledged had 
 been embezzled or mifapplied by tlie Juftlces of the Peace for 
 the faid County : A particular Account of the fliid Sums is an* 
 nexed to this Report by way of Appendix, No. I. 
 
 They further infifted, that there remained in the Hands of 
 the feveral Perlons hereafter named, divers Sums of Money un- 
 accounted for, belonging to the faid County ; viz. in the Hands 
 of Mr. yohf! Higgs^ Treafurer for the faid County, ^yy I. 1 1 j. 
 o- d. ; in the Hands of Mr. Cotejiuorth, 163/. 16 s, 10 d. \ of 
 Mr. Jones ^ 61. 14 s. 6 d.j of Mr. fVilJbirey 61. 14 s. 10 d.; of 
 Mr. Clitheru., 0.6 h 11s. ^d. ; of Mr. Henry Barker, 5)0 /. 
 \y s. S^''-) of Alexander Clarke, 0^% 1. 14 j. 8 t/. ; of "John Pay my 
 61. \ s. 4 ^. ; of Jani.es Shar fiefs, 12 l. 2 s. Sd.; of John Da- 
 niely Deputy Cryer at Hicks' s Hall, 3/. i^s. 8^. j of Jacob 
 Harvey, KCq; 282/. ^j. 5^.; of MT.PhilifBetty, ^ol. ^j. ^d.\ 
 and alfo a further Sum of j/. 1 1 j. Then 
 
 John Milner, Efq; one of his Majefty's Juftices of the 
 peace for the County of Middlefex faid, That he and the reft 
 of the Juftices of the Peace for the faid County were ready to 
 make out to your Committee, that the feveral Sums of Mo- 
 ney levied on the Inhabitants of the County of Middlefex y for 
 palling of Vagrants, repairing Bridges, contributing to Ho- 
 spitals and Alms-houfes, relieving maimed Soldiers and Mariners, 
 and the poor Prifoners in the King's Bench and Marfoalfea, 
 had not been more than was necelTary ; and that the fame had 
 not been mifapplied or embezzled by the faid Juftices or their 
 Agents ; but that they hoped to make it appear that the fame 
 had been applied for the Advantage and Intereft of the faid 
 County ; and that the faid Charge laid againft them by the 
 Petitioners, arofe merely from the Refentment that fhornas 
 Eohe, Efq; one of the faid Juftices, had conceived againft 
 them, for oppofing him in the Execution of his Patent, as 
 Clerk of the Market, and in contefting exorbitant Fees 
 claimed by him, which, on a Trial in ihc King's Bench (brought 
 on by their Order, for the Good of the County, as they, ap- 
 prehend) was found to be illegal ; by which Means the faid 
 Mr. Robe loft above 1000 /. per Annum, at a moderate Com- 
 putation : That feveral of the Complaints made by the Peti- 
 tioners, if they had had any Foundation, had been long fince 
 removed : That the Rates for maimed Soldiers and Mariners, 
 and King's Bench, and Hofpitals, had been difcontinued for 
 fome Years: That the Juftices had laid out for the Repair of 
 
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 Hicks % Hall^ Money of their own, and that they had frequent- 
 ly laid out the County Rents, which are applicable to that 
 Ufe, to other publick Services of the County : That the 
 Petitioners, by going back for 14 Years, can only affeft the 
 ]uftices then concerned, who are moftof them dead, and there- 
 fore incapable of juftifying themfclves j that Mr. Rphe has afted 
 himfelfin moft of thefe Things; that he never complain'd of 
 any MifappHcation in Seflions, till after his Patent was by the 
 faid Juftices render'd ineffedual j that where-ever any Money 
 has been direded to be paid out of one Fund, for another Uie 
 than what the fame was appropriated to, it was always directed 
 to be replac'd j and in Fad leveral Sums of Money have been 
 fo replac'd, and the whole in time will be repaid i and a greater 
 Part had been fo already, but for Ibme Accidents which could 
 not be forefeen ; fome of which, he laid, they were ready to 
 lay before the Committee; many of them owing to Mr. Robe's 
 oppreffive Execution of his Patent, and his malicious Profecu- 
 tions of their Officers, and Removal of their Rates by Cer- 
 tiorari. 
 
 To prove the abovcfaid Fads, 
 
 Nathaniel Bhickerby, Efq; another of his Majefty's Juftices of 
 the Peace, produc'd the Account of T^homas jones. High Con- 
 ftable of the Hundreds of OJfulJion^ Edmonton and Gore^ and 
 Treafurer of the Monies rais'd for palling of Vagrants, within 
 the faid Hundreds, for the Years 1722 and 1726 •■ by which it 
 appeared, that he colleded on the faid Rates, the Sum of 
 870/. 1 3 J. 8^.; and that he expended, for palling of Vagrants, 
 for which he produced Vouchers, the Sum of 5^)1 /. 15 j. 10^.; 
 that he paid to Sir Daniel Dolins^ General Treafurer for the 
 faid County, the Sum of 1 38 /. o j. 10^/.; that he has charged in 
 the faid Account the Sum of 131 /. 4j, 10^. for which he can 
 produce no Vouchers; fo that by that Account, there appears 
 to remain in his Hand the Sum of ^ /. 1 2 i, a <:/. 
 
 They then read an Order of SefHons, dated 'July the 20th, 
 1728, requiring the laid ''Jones, amongft others, perfonally to 
 attend at the next General Seflions of the Peace, to be holden 
 for the faid County, by Adjournment on the 27th Day of 
 Aigufi then next, at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, and to 
 produce a true and perfed Account in Writing, of all Monies 
 by him receiv'd, during his Continuance in the Office of High 
 Conftable, or after his being dilcharg'd from the fame, for the 
 Relief of maimed Soldiers and Mariners, for the Marfialjea, 
 
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 Khig's Beiich, and Holpitals, for the pafllng and relieving of 
 Vagrants, for the Repair ofpublick Bridges, and the Houfc of 
 Corredion, and of the rcfpci^tive Payments out of the fame, with 
 the Receipts and Vouchers to them belonging j with an Account 
 of the Arrears ftanding out and unreceiv'd upon the faid Rates, 
 and from what Parifhes or Places the fame are due, with the 
 Chriftian and Surname of the Petty Conftables or Pariih Officers, 
 who have made fuch Default. 
 
 Mr. John Higgs then produced a Copy of an Indidment pre- 
 ferred againft the faid yosies and others, at the General Quarter 
 Seflions of the Peace, held by Adjournment July the 20th, in 
 the fecond Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, for not 
 attending on the Day appointed ; which Indiftment was re- 
 moved into the King's Benchy and there remains undecided for 
 want of Money to carry on the Profecution. A Copy of the 
 
 {aid Indiclmei)t is hereunto annexed, No. II. 
 
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 Then feveral Orders of a Committee of Juftices appointed to 
 ftate the Accounts, and feveral Letters figned by the Clerk of 
 the Peace, requiring the faid Jones to make up his Accounts, 
 were read. 
 
 Then Mr. T'homas Wjlhnfon produced a fecond Indictment, 
 preferred the 1 4th Day of January ^ in the fecond Year of King 
 George II. againft the faid yones ; but faid, that that was like- 
 wife removed into the Court o^ King' s Bench -^ a Copy of which 
 is alfo hereunto annexed, No. Ill, 
 
 Then an Order of Seffions, dated jiuguji the aSth 172^, 
 direding a Writ o^ Capias to be ilfued againft the faid Jones to 
 apprehend . him, and oblige him to anfwer to the Indictments 
 preferred and found againft him for not accounting, was read. 
 
 And another of the 15th of ^January following, direding 
 Procefs to be ilfued, and continued until the faid Jones Ihould 
 be Outlawed, iwas alfo read. 
 
 ' And another bearing Date the adth Day of February follow- 
 ing, dirtying a Writ o^ Fix i gent againft the faid Jones for not 
 'accounting, was alfo read. 
 
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 ' '^if. Blackerhyxh&n produced the Account of pfilliam MurJen, 
 Gent. High Conftable for the Hundreds of Elf home, Sfehborne 
 
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 and Ijhworth^ and Trealurer for the Monies raifed within the 
 faid Hundreds for pafling of Vagrants, the Total of which for 
 the faid two Years amounts to the Sum of 1 1 3 /. 1 8 j. He paid 
 out of the fame for pafUng of Vagrants, 30/. yds. 1 1 c/. for 
 which he produced Vouchers, and there remained in Arrear 
 (uncoUeded) at the Time of his Death 57/. 13J. \ d. He 
 further paid to one Mr. barker., by Order of the Jdftices, for 
 which he produced no Voucher, the Sum of 5/. 8j. which 
 Sums together maite the faid Sum of 1 13 /. 18 j. 
 
 Mr. Blackerby then acquainted the Committee, that the Ju- 
 ftices were not able to give an exaft Account of Mr. Mur den's 
 Affairs, by reafon that he died foon after he was called upon 
 to make up his Accounts, and that his Servant who kept the 
 faid Accounts ran away with them, which Mr. Robe^ Agent 
 for the Petitioners, admitted to be true. 
 
 He then produced the Account of pVilUam Cotefworth^ Efq; 
 County Trcafurer for the Rate made for palling of Vagrants 
 in the Year 1725), by which it appears, that he had disburfcd 
 out of the faid Rate the Sum of 107/. 16 s. 5 d. only. 
 
 Your Committee beg Leave to obferve, that as Mr. Cotef- 
 worth died infolvent, there were no Vouchers produced for this 
 Account ; and that the Account added at the End of this Re- 
 port, No VII. was ma°de up from a Book of Mr. CoteJworth'& 
 Hand-writing, delivered to your Committee by Mr. Charles 
 Barnard^ Attorney at Law, who faid that he received it from 
 Mr. Cvtefworthh Widow, but attefted it to be Mr. CoteJwortFs 
 Hand-writing from his own Knowledge. 
 
 Mr. Blackerby then produced the Account of Andrew Oshority 
 Efq; County Treafurer, for the Rate made for pafling of Va- 
 grants in the Year 1731, by which it appears, that he had 
 disburfed the Sum of i%yl. 16 s. 6 d. for which he produced 
 Vouchers j that there remained uncolleded at the Time of his 
 making up his Account the Sum of 473/. i j. 6d. and that he 
 paid to Mr. Higgs, the fucceeding Trcafurer, the Sum of 41 /. 
 4 J. which makes the faid Rate of 800/. 
 
 He then produced feveral Accounts of Mr. yohn Higgs^ Trea- 
 furer for the faid County; the firft of loa/. 6 s. ^d. being 
 Part of the Arrears of the Rate 1729, and received by him, by 
 which it appeared, that he had disburfed thereof, for which he 
 
 produced
 
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 produced Vouchers, the Sum of 58 /. i6s. pd. and that there 
 remained in his Hands the Sum of 43/. pj. 8^. ; the fecond 
 Account was the faid Balance; the Balance paid him by ylndrew 
 Oshoni^ Efq; and feveral Arrears of the Rate made 1731, 
 amounting in the whole to 15^/. 6s.-^ and by that it appears, 
 that the faid Mr. Higgs had disburfed on the faid Accounts the 
 Sum of 161 I. _§s. 2d. 
 
 Mx.J-ohn Higgs, General Treafurer for the County of Mid- 
 d/ejexy being examined, faid, That he had Monies in his Hands, 
 paid him by feveral Conftables on the Vagrant Rate 1734, 
 before the Order for making the fame was removed into the 
 King's Bench ; but that the faid Rate having been quaflied 
 there, he was at a Lofs how to difpofe of the fame, and therefore 
 had not brought it to Account. 
 
 The Particulars of the feveral Accounts before-mentioned 
 relating to Vagrant Money, with an Extradl of the fame, are 
 added to the End of this Report by way of Appendix, Num- 
 bers IV, V, VI, VII, Vlir, IX, X. 
 
 Mr. Blackerby then proceeded to lay before the Committee 
 the Accounts of the feveral Treafurers for the Marjhalfea, King's 
 Bench and Hofpitals for the Hundreds of OJfuiflony Edmonton 
 and Gore j and iirft that of 
 
 Thomas Jones, Treafurer for the fame for the Years 1712, 
 1723,1724,1725, 172(5, and 1727, by which he is charged with 
 the Sum of 43p /. 1 1 j. j he paid thereout the Sum of 285/. 
 17 s. and 4 d. to Sir Daniel Dolins, Kt. to be applied to the 
 Repair of Hicks' s HaU\ there remained uncollefted of the Rate 
 1725, 5/. 12 J. 8^. and of the Rate 172^, 6/. 3 j. 6d. ma- 
 king in the whole the Sum of 2^7/. 13 i. (>d.\ fo that there 
 remains in the Hands of the faid Mr. Jones, upon this Head, 
 the Sum of 141 /• ^7 s. 6d. 
 
 He then produced the Account of 
 
 Mr. James Sharplefs^ Treafurer for the faid Divifion for the 
 Years 1728, 172^, 1750, whereby he is charged with the Sum 
 of 94/. 10 J.; 33/. as. 10 d. of which he paid to Mr. John 
 Higgs, Treafurer of the faid County, and there remained un- 
 colledled in the three Years 61 l. ^ s. 2 d. making the faid Sum 
 of 04 /. 10 s. 
 
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 He then produced the Actx»nnt of 
 
 Mr. y^kxaiuler Clarke^ Treafurer for the faid Hundreds for 
 the Year 1731, 1732, by which he is charged with the Sum 
 of 63 /. j 46 /. 6 s. 4 (/. of which he paid to Mr. Job/j Higgs ; 16 1. 
 13 J. 8^. remained in A rrear, making together the laid Sum 
 of 6^ I 
 
 He then produced the Account of 
 
 Mr. John Higgs^ Treafurer for the faid County, by which he is 
 charged with the Receipt of the Sum of 5)4/. 14J, 3 i/. upon 
 the Account of the faid lafl mentioned Rate; ^l. i8j. of which 
 he has disburfed, and produced Vouchers for the fame 5 84/. 
 16 s. ^d. remains in his Hands, making together the Sum of 
 ^4 /. 1 4 J. 3 ^. 
 
 It appeared to your Committee by Mr. Cotefworth's Book, 
 that he had received from the Hands of one Richard ff'iljbn the 
 Sum of 4/. 15 J. 4 ^. being Part of the Arrears of thefe Rates 
 for the Years 1717 and 1729. 
 
 It likcwife appeared to your Committee, that the Exhibition 
 Money to the Marfljalfea and King's Bench was paid by the 
 Clerk of the Peace out of the proper Money of the juftices, 
 called Colt Money, until the Year 1732. 
 
 Your Committee do not find, that there has been any Rare 
 rjjadf for thele Purpofes fince the Year 1732. 
 
 Mr, Bhckerhy then produced the Accounts of the feveral 
 Treafurers of the aforefaid Rates for the Hundreds of Eltho) fWy 
 Sj^elthorne and IJleiuoith \ 
 
 ' 'irt, TbAtofMT.in/Iiiim Mt'.rdai for theYear 1722, 1 723, i''24, 
 172J and 1726, by which he is cliaiged with the Sura of 6y I. 
 3 J. 4 r/. J 20 /. of which he paid to Sir Dm'tel DoVws\ 30 /. more 
 to the fame by the Hands of Mr. Nine-^ and 17/. 3 j. 4^/. ri,'- 
 maincd uncolltQed j making the laid Sum 0(67 I. 3 s. j\.d. 
 
 2dly, Mr. Thomas iVUhnfon'^^ for the Years 1727 and 1728, 
 whereby he is charged with tlie Sum of .1.61. 17 j. 4^. ; 3 /. j j. 
 ©f which appears to be in his Hands, by a Letter dated 'June 
 the 7th 1728; and 23/. i r. j, 4c/, the Rcm:undrr of tlie faid 
 Sum, is unculletlcd. 
 
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 3dly, Mr. John Payne's^ for the Year 1731 and 1732, by 
 which he is charged with the Sum of '16 1, i/j. 4^. ; 4/. 3 j. 2<^. 
 of which he paid to Mr.Johfi Higgs aforefaid ; and ai /. i4i. 2</. 
 the Remainder of the faid Sum, is uncollefted. 
 
 Lartly, The Account of the faid Mr, Higgs^ whereby he is 
 charged with the Sum of S /. is. z d. which he acknowledge* 
 to be in his Hands. 
 
 Your Committee think proper to obferve, that no Rate was 
 coUcfted on this Held in the Years i/^p and 1730, for the 
 Hundreds of Elthonie^ Spelthnrne and I/leworth^ although there 
 was a Rate made and colJefted for the Hundreds of Q^7/?c?;.', 
 Edmonton and Gore in tliofc Years for the faid Purpofes. 
 
 The Particulars of thefc Accounts relating to the Mayfjiil/ea, 
 Kings Bench and Hofpitals, with an Extrad of the fame, are 
 likewife added by way of Appendix, IS umbers XI, XII. 
 
 Mr. Bbckerhy then produced an Order of the General Quarter 
 Seflions of the Peace holden Jpril the 17th, the 7th ofGeor. J. 
 appointing IJthic I'i/Ifard, Efqi Treafurer of the Monies to be 
 coHefted for maimed Soldiers and Mariners for the Hundreds 
 of Ojjkljhn and Gore for the Year 1721 i and he is thereby ap- 
 pointed, and defired to take and audit the Accounts oi Do'iley 
 Mitchell^ Efq; Treafurer for the faid Hundreds for the Year 
 laft part, in the Prefence o^Jofeph Offley, Richard Brown^ John 
 Ckeve, Richard Beling^ NarciJJJu Lnttrelly "John Fuller^ and 
 j4mhrofe Page^ Efquires, and fuch other of the Juftices as have 
 been Treafurers of the faid Hundreds for the Purpofe aforefaid, 
 or any Three of them; And al fo, 
 
 Another Order of the fame Date, appointing Gwynn Vaughan^ 
 Efq; Treafurer of the Money to be colleded for maimed Sol- 
 diers and Mariners within the Hundreds oi Elthorne^ Spdthonie, 
 and TJIewoith, for the Year 1721 ; and he is thereby appointed^' 
 and defired to take the Accounts of PVilUam Lloyd^, Efq; Trea- 
 furer of the faid Hundreds for the Year laft pafl, in the Pre- 
 fence of the Honourable James Bertie^ Efq; Sir Richard Reyneh^ 
 Bart. Thomas Vernon., JVhitlock Bulftrode^ Leonard Hamondy Rti* 
 pert Biozvne, and John Fertmr, Efqs; and fuch other of the' 
 (uftices as have been Treafurers of the faid Hundreds- for tl'.e 
 Purpofe aforefaid, or any Four of them. 
 
 He
 
 He Hkewifcread feveral other Orders of Seffions for the fame 
 Purpole, and then produced the Accounts of the feveral Trea- 
 furers for maimed Soldiers and Mariners for the Hundreds of 
 OJfulfion^ Edmcuton^ and Gor^, from the Year 1721 ; by \A'hich 
 it appears, that the Balance then in the Treafurer's Hands was 
 3pi/. i8j. ^d. ; that the Rates made from 1711 to 1732 amounted 
 to 5)67 /. 4 J. ; that there was a Balance in the Hands of Mr. Jofiejy 
 formerly Treafurer for the faid Rate, of 5/. iis. 8^., and in 
 the Hands of Mr. Cote/worthy likewife Treafurer, the Sum of 
 7/. 7 J. 4^.; of which 550 /. is. 6d. has been applied to the 
 Service for which it was raifed \ 400 /. for the Repair oi Hicks' s- 
 haU ; 43 /. II s. 6d. for the Repair of New Pr'ifon j 1 40 /. 1 5 j-. 
 4^. Deficiencies on the faid Rate \ ip l. 1 8 j. and 8 d. was loft 
 by Mr. Cotefxorth's dying infolvent j and there remains 217 /. 
 IS s. 2d. unapplied, in the Hands of Mr. 'Jones, Mr. PI ndaiy 
 Mr. Harvey y and Mr. H'tggs, late and prefent Treafurer of the 
 faid Rates. 
 
 Your Committee obferve, that the faid Accounts do not in- 
 tirely tally with the Book of Accounts produced to prove the 
 fame j but that the Variations are but of fmall Importance, being 
 in the Arrears faid to be uncollected. 
 
 Mr. Blackerby then acquainted the Committee, That for the 
 other Hundreds of RUhorne, Spelthorne, and JJleworth, the Ju- 
 ftices could not account for the Rates further than the Year 1730, 
 becaufe it had been the Ufage of the Seflions, in order to avoid 
 bringing the Treafurers, who were Perfons of Character and 
 Fortune, from the remoteft Part of the County, to refer the 
 Account of the preceding Treafurer to be ftated and pafTed by 
 his Succcflbr, and fuch other of the Juftices of the Peace for the 
 faid Hundreds, as had been Treafurers for the fame, or any 
 Four of them ; and that no Vouchers had been delivered up to 
 the Clerk of the Peace till the Year 1732 : He therefore pro- 
 duced an Account only of'JohfiT'arver, Efq; Treafurer for the 
 fame for the faid Year; by which he is charged with the Sum 
 of 42/. oj. 8^.; 18/. 15 i. of which he paid to maimed Sol- 
 diers and Mariners, for which he produced Vouchers ; 22/. i^s. 
 4^/. remained uncollected ; (5 j. 41^. being the Balance, remained 
 in his Hands. 
 
 The faid Mr. T^irver, being prefent, acknowledged the faid 
 Account to be true. 
 
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 The Particulars of thefe Accounts relating to maimed Soldiers 
 and Mariners, with an Extrad thereof, are likewife added by 
 way of Appendix, Numbers XII [, XIV. 
 
 It appeared to your Committee, by the Account of Sir Daniel 
 
 Dolins^ Knighc, that he had received oi James Clithero^ Efqj 
 Treafurer for the laid Rates in the Year 1722 and 1723, the 
 Sum of 63 Pounds ; and that he had reeeived from Albert Nif- 
 hett the Sum of ip/. 1 1 j. and by Mr. Cb^f/a;^r///s Account 
 that he had received from Mr. Buljirode^ Treafurer for the faid 
 Rates for the Year 1725, the Sum of 12/. i8j. 8 i/. and of Sir 
 George Cooke, Treafurer for the Year 172^, the Sum of n /. 
 I J. 4 <^. 
 
 Mr. Bhcke ihy ihtn produced an Account of Sir Dauiel Dolhij 
 Knight, General Treafurer for the County of Midd/ejex, a Copy 
 of which is hereunto annexed, No XV ; by which it appears, 
 that he received of the Monies belonging to the faid County, 
 1578/. 10 s. 6d.'j 1388/. 16 J. ^d. of which he disburfed by 
 virtue of feveral Orders of Seflions for Repairs of Hicks' s-haU, 
 Chertfea Bridge, and the Houfe of Corredion ; fo that there 
 remdned the Sum of 18^/. 13 j. 10 d. which he paid to Mr^ 
 Cotejworthy as appears by his Book produced by Mr. Barnard. 
 
 lie then produced divers Orders of Seflions for the Repairs at 
 Hicks' s-hally the firft bearing Date the 4th of December 1722, 
 directing leveral of the Juftices of the Peace therein named, or 
 any Five of them, to take a View thereof, and to fee what 
 Repairs were wanting, and to confider whether the laid Houfe 
 ought to be rebuilt or repaired, and what it would coft to re- 
 build or repair the fame, and to confider what Methods are fit 
 to be taken to raife Money for that Purpofe ; the fecond bearing 
 Date the ijth of January following, being a Report of Nine 
 Juftices, purfuant to the Order of the 4th of December concern- 
 ing the faid Hall ^ whereby the Rebuilding of the fame is efti- 
 niated at 1 600 /. and the Charge of repairing, altering, and en- 
 larging the Court, and making additional Buildings, is eftimated 
 at 600/.; and it is thereby propofed to apply the Surplus of the 
 feveral Rates for maimed Soldiers and Mariners, Mar/fjaUec:, 
 Kings Benchy and Hofpitals, and other Rates for the faid Re- 
 pairs j but in cafe the fame was to be rebuilt, they conceive it 
 to be requifite to apply to Parliament to raife Money for that 
 Purpofe. 
 
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 Your Committee think fit to obferve. That this Report was 
 figned amongft others, by Sir 7'homas Hrjuett, his late Majefty's 
 Surveyor of the Works. 
 
 The third Order bears Date January the iSth 1722. reciting 
 the faid Report, and refolving that the faid Hill fiiould be re-, 
 paired, the Court alter'd, and enlarged, and additional Buildings 
 made J and referred it to the aforefaid Juftices to treat with 
 Workmen for doing the fame, and to lay their Proceedings be- 
 fore the next General Seffions of the Peace ; and the faid Juftices 
 taking into Confideration, whether they coiild properly order 
 the Monies raifed for the Relief of maimed Soldiers and Mari- 
 ners, and for the Marfijalfea^ Khg's Eenchy and H^^: -Uc^ls, 
 then in the Hands of the refpedive Treafurers, to be ap^jii.^d 
 to, the defraying of the laid Expence, they were of Opinion, that 
 they coyld not proper;ly make fuch Order, but that they might, 
 if thought neceflary for the Purpofe aforefaid, borrow Monies 
 of, thel^id Treafurers, by virtue of an Order or Orders to be 
 made at the General or Quarter Seffions of the Peace j to be re- 
 funded and paid back to fuch refpeclive Treafurers, or their 
 Succeflfors, by fuch Ways and Means, and in fuch manner^, as 
 the laid Juftices of the Peace Ihould dired and appoint. "^ , ' 
 
 The 4th Order bears Date the 25th oi Fehruary^ 1722. and 
 contains a Report figned by eight Juftices, one of whom is Sir 
 'Thomas Hewity concerning their Proceedings in treating with 
 Workmen for the faid Repairs, Alterations, and Enlargements; 
 and therein are contained the Propofals of the feveral Work- 
 men for Undertaking the fame, and which they declare the faid 
 Workmen were willing to enter into Articles for performing j 
 the Total of which amounts to the Sum of 675/. ly s. 6d. 
 
 The Fifth bears Date February the 28th 172a. and direQs 
 Thomas Jomsy Treafurer for the Marjhalfea^ King's Bench, in^, 
 Hofpitals for the Hundreds oiOJfulJiony Edmonton^ and Gorcy 
 to pay to Sir Daniel Dolhis, Knight, the Sum of 282 /. ji. 6d. 
 out of the Monies in his Hands, fubjed to the Orders of the 
 Juftices of the Peace in their General or Quarter Sefllons, for 
 their Difpofal thereof 
 
 The Sixth bears Date Mr/ the 30th 1723. and direds Sir 
 Daniel Dolinsy Knight, to retain out of the Monies paid into 
 his Hands, as Treafurer for the Hundreds of 0^//y?o», Edmon- 
 ton,
 
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 ton, and Gore, for Relief of maimed Soldiers and Mariners, the 
 Sum of 400/. the fame having been, or to be applied towards 
 the Repairing of Hicks s Hall. 
 
 The Seventh of the fame Date, direds the annual Rents of 
 the Eftate belonging to the County hereafter to be received, to 
 be, (after the Dedudion of the Disburfements thereout) applied 
 to the refunding and paying back to the Trcafurers for the 
 maimed Soldiers, and Mariners, for the MarfhalJ'ea, Kin^s Bsnch^ 
 dnd Hofpitals, or other Treafurers, divers Sums of Money by 
 them advanced by way of Loan, by virtue of feveral Orders 
 of the General or Quarter Seffions, towards the Repair of ///t/^j'i 
 Hall. 
 
 The 8th Ordet bears Date July the nth 1723. and direds 
 Robert Hardeflie, Gent. Deputy Clerk of the Peace, out of the 
 Monies by him recciv'd, caU'd Colt-Money, to pay to Sir Da- 
 rnel Dolins^ Knight, the Sum of jo/, upon account. 
 
 The pth Order bears Date July the pth 1714. and direds 
 the reimburfing of the Treafurer for maimed Soldiers, and Ma- 
 riners, or other Treafurers, fuch Monies as had been or fhould 
 be borrowed of them, for the Repair of Hicks's Hally out of 
 the clear annual Eftates belonging to the County. 
 
 The loth Order hears Dzte December the 4th, 1724; and 
 direds John Waller ^ Gentleman, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, to 
 pay over the feveral Sums of Money by him received for the 
 County Rents, unto Sir Daniel Dol'ms^ Knight, fubjed to the 
 Order of the pth of July laft. 
 
 The nth Order, dated y^««^r/ 15). 1717, direds T'homai 
 TVllktnfon, Gentleman, then Clerk to Peter M'^alter, Efq; Clerk 
 of the Peace, to pay to Sir Daniel Dolins the feveral Sums of 
 Money by him received for the County Rents, fubjed to the 
 Order of the <;ith of July 1724. 
 
 A like Order, dated July 18. 1728, direds the faid Wilkin- 
 fon to pay the faid Rents to William Cotejworth, Efq; 
 
 A like Order, dated ^r//ao. 1732, direds the faid /F/7J(:/«- 
 fon to pay the faid Rents to John Higgs, Gentleman, fubjed to 
 the Order of the General and Quarter Seflions touching the 
 Application and Difpofal thereof. 
 
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 It appears to your Committee, That the Extraordinary Ex- 
 pence for the Repair of Hi ties' s Ha /I began in the Year 1722, 
 and ended in the Year 1726 ; and that what has been laid out 
 on the faid Hall fince that time, has not exceeded the annual 
 Income of the Eftate left by Sir Baptifi Hicks ^ for the Re- 
 pair of the fame, the faid Eftate producing annually Fifty 
 Pounds. ■ '-'' '-^ ■■'-' 
 
 ■ Mr. B/ackef'bj '^th'en produced the Account of the Rate' of 
 County Bridges; by the firft of which it appears, tbittheSum 
 of 1400 /. was direfted to be railed in the Years 1713 and 1726; 
 1237/. ^s. yd. of which was expended in the Repair of the 
 faid Bridges ; 4/. 4J'. i d. was uncollected on the Rate 1723; 
 1 13 /. 17 J. 5^. was deficient on the Rate 1726 ; and 4.^/. Ss. 
 1 1 d. was loft by Mr. Cotefworth. 
 
 By another Account it appears, that a further Rate for 200/. 
 was made in the Year 1731, for the Repair of Brentford-brtdge 'y 
 83/. 1 5 J. whereof was disburfed for the faid Purpofe, by 
 Hemy Barker ^1£.{(\\ ^y I. j /. id.^hy Jame}>ditherOyYA(];^ 10 1. 
 8 J. 10 d. by Mr. Higgs'^ and 2p/. 16 j. sd. \ remains uncol- 
 leded \ there remains in the Hands of Henry Barker ^ Efq; the 
 Sum of 7 1. 1 s. 6 d. and in Mr. Higgs's Hands 31 /. 12 s. id. -j, 
 making together the faid Sum of 200 /. 
 
 Mr. Barkemttcnded your Committee, and produced Vouchers, 
 by which it appeared, that he had expended all the Money 
 charged to be in his Hands to the Ufes for which it was raifed, 
 except the faid Sum of 7 /. 2s. 6d. which he faid he was 
 ready to pay or apply, as the Juftices fhould direft. 
 
 Mr. Clithero likewife attended your Committee, and made it 
 appear to them by proper Vouchers, that he had expended all 
 the Money charged to be rn his Hands^ for the Purpofes for 
 which it was raifed. 
 
 A Copy of the two Accounts above-mention'd relating to 
 Bridges, with an Extraft thereof, are hereunto annexed, Num- 
 bers XVI, XVII. 
 
 It appeared to your Committee, by Mr. Jones's Account, 
 That 3 /. xi s. lid. Part of the faid Arrears, had been col- 
 lefted by him, and remains in his Hands. 
 
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 It likewife appeared to your Committee by Mr. Cote/worth's 
 Account, chat he had received of Mr. Nine the Sum of 23 /. 
 6 s. II d. Part of the Arrear of the Rate niade 1726; out of 
 which he gives himfelt Credit for the Sum of 5 /. 10^. 11^. 
 disburfed by him. 
 
 Mr. Blackerhy then produced an Account of the Moneys bor- 
 rowed from the feveral Treafurers of maimed Soldiers and Ma- 
 riners, Vagrants, Marjhalfea and King's Eejich^ from 1722 to 
 1726, amounting in the Whole to the Sumof 107^/. \j s.^d. 
 ■with an Account how the fame had been disburfed j 
 
 A Copy of which is hereunto annexed, No XVIII. 
 
 He then produced a particular Account of the Money fo 
 borrowed, and how much of the fame had been replaced ; 
 
 A Copy of which is likewife hereunto annexed, No XIX. 
 
 Mr. Blackerhy uitn faid, that the Debt had been much more 
 reduced, but tor the following Reafons ; That the Repairs of 
 the faid Hall came to 452/. ly s. ^d. more than they were 
 eftimated at : That the Expences for the Repair and Furniture 
 of the faid Hall, Repair of Neiv Prifon^ and Coals and Fees 
 between '\jiily 1728 and Augtijl 1730, amounted to 82/, \s.\ 
 That the Expences of profecuting Thomas Robe^ Efq; for op- 
 prefling of the Inhabitants of the County of Middlefex^ as Clerk 
 of the Market, and the Expence of profecuting and convicting 
 the Clerk of Gliffbrd fV'tUiam 'T>hilips, Efq; Juftice of the Peace, 
 for Extortion in taking unjuftifiable Fees, amounted to 136/, 7 j. 
 I d.^ which,ThrcelaftArticleswerepaidout of the County Rents: 
 That the Jufiices, fince the Lofs to the County by Mr. Cotef- 
 worth'z Death, have charged Mr. Higgs's Salary of 1^ per Ann. 
 to the County Rents, which for 5 Years amounts to 1 2 j /. for 
 keeping the Account of all the Rates and Accounts annually • 
 for doing of which he has 500 /. Security ; which Salary the 
 Juftices apprehend, ought rather to have been charged to the 
 feveral Rates in Proportion ; and if that Sum had been taken 
 from the County Rents, and applied, as at firft ordered by the 
 Seflions, towards paying off the Debt incurred for the Repair of 
 Hicks's /fall, it had reduced the fame to the Sum of 613/. 
 1 7 J. 71: That notwithftanding this great Repair, the Court 
 was too fmall for the Bufinefs of late Years, the fame being 
 greatly increafed j and that by means of the Court being open, 
 
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 it was fo cold as to endanger the Health of the Juftices and the 
 Suitors : That the Money being thus exhauftcd by the aforelaid 
 Expenccs, the Juftices have fince laid out the Sum of 150/. ^s. 
 of their own Money, called Colt Money, upon Hicks' j Hall, 
 which otherwife they would have applied to the leffening of 
 the faid Debt, which would have reduced it tq 458 /. iz s. y±. 
 and that annually decreafing. 
 
 He then produced an Account of Money paid from County 
 Rents by nomas Wilkinfon to Mr. Cote/worth from 1728 to 
 1730, amounting in the whole to 5)5)/. 10 J. 8^. ; 57/. 3^. of 
 which was applied to the Repairing and Furnifiiing ofHicks's 
 //all, and 1 5 / to the Repair of New '^rlfon, and 31/. 1 1 i. % d. 
 Mr, Cotejwoi'th paid to Mr. Higgs, for defraying the Expence 
 of carrying on the Prolecutions aforefaid ; 
 
 A Copy of which is hereunto annexed, No XX. 
 
 He next produced an Account of County Rents received by 
 Mr. yobn Higgs and Mr, 7'homas Wilkivfon from 1730 to 173 (J, 
 amounting in the whole to 25)^ /. ^s. 2d.j by which it appears, 
 that 5)3/, 10 s. 10 d.. Part thereof, was applied to the Furni- 
 ture and Repair of ///^fc/j 7/^//; 84/, 15 J. 5^. was disburfed 
 to fupport the Profecutions againft Thomas Robe, Efq; Clerk of 
 the Market of the King's Houfhold, and Mofes Peters, Clerk to 
 Clifford JVilliam 'Thilifs, Efq; and 16 1. 4^. for printing and 
 difpcrfing Advertifements concerning the Election of Reprefen- 
 tatives for the County of Middlefex and other Purpofes ; 
 
 A Copy of which is hereunto annexed, No XXI. 
 
 There is likewife charged, as due to the faid Mr. Higgs, the 
 Sum of I 2j/. being for 5 Years Salary allowed him as General 
 Treafurer ; and likewife the Sum of a/, i s. 6 d. paid for Books 
 to keep the Accounts, which makes the Difcharge exceed the 
 Charge, the Sum of aa/. 2 j. yd.j which is alledged, will be 
 made good to the Accountant by the Half-year's Rent due at 
 Lady-day 17 ^y, and which is not included in this Account. 
 
 It appeared likewife to your Committee by a Receipt of 
 Mr, Higgs, that the faid Mr. fVtlkinfon paid to Mr. Higgs^ out 
 of the Connty Rents by Order of Mr. Cotefworth, the Sum of 
 Twenty Pounds, towards defending the Caufe againft fhotnas 
 Robe^ Efqj 
 
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 It appeared likcwit'e to the Committee, by an Account laid 
 before them, That the Jnfticcs ol' the Peace had expended out 
 of their own proper Money, called Colt Money, the Sum of 
 1 55 /. s ■»"■ towards the Repair of Hich's-Hall^ a Copy of 
 which is hereunto annex'd, N^ XXII. 
 
 It appeared to your Committee, by an Account marked 
 No XXIII., that the Juflices had expended more out of the Colt 
 Money upon Hicks's Hall, than the >Seffions had applied to Pro- 
 fecutions or Advertifements, out of the County Rents. 
 
 Thomas Bardus^ Efq; then produced his Account, as Trea- 
 furer of the Houfe of Corredion of Clerhenwell, marked 
 No XXIV.; by which it appeared, that of a Rate made for 800 /. 
 in the Year 17 17, he had received the Sum of 3^3 /. 6 s. 8^.; 
 0.^1 1. 14 J. 3^8 of which he had disburfed before the aSth 
 oi Ociober ly^iy but for which he produced no V^ouchers : 
 100/. laj-, 5^, remained then in his Hands, but which he 
 afterwards paid to Sir Daniel Dolinsy as appears by the faid 
 Sir jD^«;V/'s Accounts; and 406/, 13 i. 4^. remained then in 
 Arrear. 
 
 Then a Copy of a Warrant, dated the 7th of Jamtary 1734, 
 figned by ^imon Mitchell and Robert 7'othtll, Efqrs. two of his 
 Majcfty's Juftices of the Peace for the County of Middlejexy 
 dire^ed to y^rthiir Rawlifi/b}?, Gent. High Conftable for fyejl- 
 Tninfier Divifion, in the Hundred of O^ftilflon in the faid County, 
 was produced and read, directing him to levy the Sum of 
 %6l. ^d. \y upon the faid Hundred; and to pay the fame to 
 one of the faid Juftices, in order to reimburfe one John White, 
 an Inhabitant in the faid Hundred, the Sum of <S4 /. ids. 8 d. 
 ^o much being levied upon him by the Sheriff of the faid Coun- 
 ty, to make good the Damage fuftained by Blanche, the Wife 
 of William Milborn, by a Robbery on the Highway within the 
 faid Hundred. 
 
 Simon Mitchell, Efq; then produced an Account, N" XXV., 
 by which it appears, that about the beginning of March 1734, 
 he received the Sum of 48/. y s. 4^. |, upon the faid Rate, 
 and that he forthwith paid the fame to the faid Mr. White : 
 That upon the 7th of April 1735, he paid to the faid Mr. White 
 the further Sum of i(5 /. p j. 3 r/. i, making together the Sum 
 of 64/. 1 6 J. 8^. being the Sum levied upon the faid Mr. 
 WhitCy upon Account of the faid Robbery, for which he pro- 
 duced
 
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 duced Mr. ffhttes Receipts : That he allowed Thomas Bray his 
 Clerk, the Sum of 3 /. for his Trouble in writing the faid Rate 
 and Warrants, and ferving thofe Warrants on the High Con- 
 ftables. The faid Mr. Mitchell xhtn. faid, That having informed 
 the Court of General Quarter Seflions, January the 15th, 1735, 
 of his Proceedings therein, and that there remained in his Hands 
 the Sum of 17 /. ^ s. ^d. i, they direded him to pay the fame 
 over to Mr. John Higgs their General Treafurer, to be difpofed 
 of in fuch manner as they fhould order and dired. 
 
 Mr. Blackerby then acquainted the Committee, that this Sum was 
 defigned to replace part of a Sum of Money, viz. 23 /. i^ s. 6 d. 
 then lately expended in Defence of the faid Hundred of Ojpd- 
 fion^ againft an Adion brought in the King's Bench by one 
 George Morris, for a pretended Robbery ; to prove which he 
 produced an Order of Qiiarter Seflions, dated Jpril the jth, 
 1733, direftingMr. John Higgs to appear for and defend the 
 faid Hundred againft the faid Adion. 
 
 By which Proceeding Mr. Higgs faid, That 531/. 10 s. was 
 faved to the Hundred. 
 
 Mr. Blackerhy then produced and read feveral Orders of Sef- 
 fions relating to the Patent granted to I'homas Robe and John 
 Matthewsy Efqrs. of Clerk of the Market of the King's Houfe- 
 hold ; the iirft dated February the a4th, 172^, wherein the 
 Juftices of the Peace declare, That a Warrant of the faid Clerks 
 therein mentioned, direded to Clifford- William Philips, Gent, 
 then High Conftable of the Tower Divifion, commanding him to 
 iflue out his Precepts to feveral Conftables within his Divifion, 
 to warn Sixteen fufficient Men to appear before them at their 
 Court, at the King's y^rms Tavern in Shuredich, to inquire into 
 and prefent all Abufes in Weights or Meafures ; and alfo to 
 fummon all Perfons ufing Weights and Meafures within their 
 Diftrids, and likewifc ro bring the Names of all Perfons ufing 
 Weights or Meafures within the Diftrids aforefaid, is illegal, 
 and ought not to be obeyed ; for that the aforefaid Places are 
 out of his Majefty's Palace and Precinds thereof, commonly 
 called the Little Virge ; and, Nemitie Contradicente, refolve to 
 ftand by and fupport all Conftables, and other Officers, who 
 Ihall ad in Purfuance of a Declaration made by them on the 
 23d Day of February then laft paft. 
 
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 The faid Declaration was then read, and is as follows ; That 
 the Juftices being informed, that the Deputies and Agents of 
 'Thomas Robe and '^ohn Matthews^ Efqrs. Clerk of the Market 
 of his Majefty's Houftiold, had, and did cxa<^, and receive 
 great Sums of Money of Tradefnien and Alehoufe Keepers, under 
 Pretence of weighing of their Weights, and meafuring their 
 Quarts, Pints, and other Meafures ; and that fuch Proceeding 
 Was illegal and opprcllive, and could not be juftified ; and the 
 faid Mr. Rohe being prefent, and infifting on the Legality of 
 their Proceedings by virtue of the Patent of the Office of Clerk 
 of the Market, they, upon reading the faid Patent upon Thurf- 
 day the 23d Day of February^ at two of the Clock in the After- 
 noon, being the County Day, did declare, That the faid Patent 
 did not extend any further than the King's Palace and Precinfts 
 thereof commonly called the Little Kirge. 
 
 Mr. Blackerby then produced a fecond Order, dated Decem- 
 ber 5. 1728, difcharging a Complaint of Thomas Robe^ Efqj 
 againft 'John ffeedon^ Efq* concerning fummoning before him, 
 and other Juftices of the Peace, at Uxbridge, Thomas Fielding^ 
 and Edward Evans, upon the Complaint of ^nn Hale, Widow, 
 for extorting Money from her under Pretence of being Deputies 
 to the Clerk of the Market, and binding them over to the Sef- 
 fions, and to appoint a Committee to inquire into the Proceed- 
 ings of the faid Clerk of the Market ; 
 
 Another, dated February 27. 1728, in which the Juftices 
 take notice, that an Indidment had been exhibited by the faid 
 Clerk of the Market, at the laft General Quarter Seflions of the 
 Peace, againft Richard Norwood, of the Town of Uxbridge, 
 Gent. High Conftablc of one Divifion within the Hundred of 
 Elthorne, for unlawfully and contemptuoufly neglcdling and 
 refufing to appear before the faid Thomas Robe, and John Mat- 
 thews, at Uxbiidge aforefaid, on the 4th Day of Oofvber then 
 laft paft, to make a Return of a Warrant by them direfted to 
 him ', and that the faid Indidment had been found by the Grand 
 Jury ; and that the faid John Mattheivs had been guilty of a 
 very indirect Pradice in menacing the Grand Jury at the laid 
 Seflions, to have the faid Indiftmcnt found ; and that he the 
 laid Matthe-ajs ftands prefentcd by the Grand Jury for fuch Mii- 
 demeanour : The faid Juftices are of Opinion, that Application 
 be made to his Majefty's Court of King's Btncl\ to grant an 
 Information againft the laid Mitthtws for a Mifdcmeanour, and 
 referred it to a Committee to confider thereof, and Jikewife in 
 
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 relation to the Indictment found againft Richard Norwood -^ for 
 Rernoval whereof into the Court of King's Bench, a Writ of 
 Certiorari had been brought by the Profecutors ; 
 
 Another Order, bearing Date jlpril 17. 172(1 ;• 'wherein the 
 JafticeS declare, That the Refufal oi Richard Norwood to appear, 
 and'Vriiake Return of a Warrant ilTued forth by 'Thomas Rob'e^^ 
 and John Matthews^ Efqs; as Clerks of the Market, was in 
 order to prevent his Majefty's Subjeds from being opprefled by- 
 any illegal Proceedings, or Exadions of Money, by the faid 
 Clerks, or their Agents, and in purfuance of the Refolutions af 
 the Court of SefTions on the 24th Day of February 1726, which, 
 was intended to prevent the Inhabitants of this County from 
 being opprelfed, as aforefaid ; and being of Opinion, that the 
 Validity and Extent of the faid Patent, as now exercifed, ought 
 to be tried and determined for the Eafe and Satisfaction of the 
 Inhabitants of this County, and that the Charge of trying the 
 fame, and of defending the faid Richard Norwood, or any other 
 Officer of this County, who hath duly a£ted, or may fo a£t in 
 purfuance of the faid Refolution, ought to be defray'd by the 
 County ; They therefore direct, that fuch Sum or Sums of Mo- 
 ney as fhall be necelTary for thofe Purpofes, be borrowed out 
 of the publick Monies in the Hands of William Cofefworfh, Efq; 
 General Treafurer, or the General Treafurer for the Time being, 
 to be from time to time repaid, and replaced to fuch Treafurer 
 out of the Rents of the Eftates belonging to the County. 
 
 The Juftices then produced the Record of a Tryal had in the 
 King's Bench in the fourth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, 
 betv/ecn Tho. Robe and yohn Matthews, Efqrs. and Richard Nor- 
 wood, concerning the Power of the Clerk of the Market, where 
 the Jury found that the Clerk of the Market of the King's Houle- 
 ihold could exercife his Office for twelve Miles round the King's 
 Abode, except within the City of London -^ but that he was not 
 entitled to the Sum of Four-pence to be paid him twice in the 
 Year by every Perfon refiding within the faid Circuit, ufing 
 Weights and Meafures, for the View and Examination thereof; 
 a Copy of which is hereunto annexed. No XXVI. 
 
 They then produced a Record of a Tryal between iV'tU'tam 
 Cole, and Edward Reffct Servant to the Clerk of the Market, 
 for demanding and extorting the Sum of Fourteen-pcnce, as a 
 Fee for examining, marking and fealing Pots, of which he was 
 found guilty j a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed. No XXVII, 
 
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 They then produced an Order of Seflions, dated December 
 the 7ch 173a, wherein a Complaint oi 7'homas Woodford oi ihc 
 Parlfh of 6*^, Johti Wapping^ againft Mojes fefers, a Clerk to 
 Clifford IVilliam Philips, Eiq; one of his Majefty's Juftices of 
 the Peace for the County of Middkjex, for demanding and re- 
 ceiving of him Four Shillings for a Warrant granted by the 
 faid Mr. Philips againft one S^imuel fiewit for Felony, was di- 
 reded to be adjourned imtil the County-day of the next General 
 Quarter Seffions of the Peace, and the faid Mr. Philips was de- 
 fired to be then prefent to hear the faid Complaint. 
 
 They then read another, bearing Date the loth Day oi May 
 J 733, reciting, That an Indidment had been found at the Sef- 
 fions of Oyer and Terminer, holden for the County of Middkjex 
 in 'January laft, againft the faid Peters, for a Mifdemeanour and 
 Extortion \ and that the faid Peters had brought a Certiorari 
 for removing the fame into the King's Bench j they therefore 
 dired Mr. John Higgs to profecute the faid Peters in the Court 
 of King's Bench, and that he be paid the Cofts and Charges of 
 fuch Profecution out of the publick Money, which he now 
 bath or may come to his Hands, as General Treafurer for the 
 County. 
 
 Mr. John i^/^j being examined, faid, That by virtue of the 
 faid Order he did profecute the faid Peters, and that he was 
 convided of the laid Offence, and was put into the King's 
 Bench Prifon. 
 
 Mr. Higgs being further examined, acknowledged that he had 
 received the Salary of 15 /. per Annum allowed to him by an 
 Order of Seflions, bearing Date 5^««e the 5 d, 1731, amounting 
 in the whole to 1 2^ /. as charged by the Petitioners. 
 
 Then an Order of Seflions of December the ^th 172a. was 
 read, direfting, that no Order ftiall be made by the General or 
 Quarter Seffions for granting any Leafe of any Lands or Tene- 
 ments belonging to the County to any Perfon or Perfons what- 
 ibever, nor any Motion made for that Purpofe, unlefs twenty 
 Juftices or more be prefent, and that a Month's Notice be given 
 in the London Gazette, that the Premifes are to be let before 
 fuch Order be made; and further, that no Matter of general 
 Concernment be moved, unlefs twenty Juftices at the leaft b<? 
 prefent when fuch Motion is made. 
 
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 The Juftices then infifted, that Mr. Robe and Mr. Le Bafs had 
 been the Stirrers-up of this Complaint againft them ^ To prove 
 which, they called 
 
 Robert T'rott, Parilh-Clerk of St. James's Ckrhenwell^ who 
 faid that he gave Warning in the faid Parilh-Church on the 
 ayth Day of July 1735, for a Veftry to be held on the fuefday 
 following, to confider of proper Methods for profecuting a Writ 
 of Certiorari ifliied out of the Court of King's Bench in Trinity 
 Term laft, direfted to the Juftices of the Peace for the County 
 of Micid/efeXy by which an Order of Sellions of the faid Juftices 
 made on the ajth Day of April 1734, for raifing Money upon 
 the Inhabitants of the faid County for pafling Vagrants, is re- 
 moved into the faid Court of King's Bench. 
 
 Being further examined, he faid, That he publifhed the fame 
 by the Diredion of Mr. John Pulkn Churchwarden. 
 
 Ehenezer Corr being examined, faid that the faid Warning 
 was of his Hand-writing, and that he wrote it by Mr. Robe's 
 Direftion. He then produced the Veftry-book of the faid Pa- 
 rlfti, which he faid he had from Mr. fViUiam Brownings one of 
 the Churchwardens of the faid Parifh, who being prefent, ac- 
 knowledged that the fame was the Veftry-book. 
 
 Then an Order of Veftry, bearing Date 'Taefday the apth of 
 July 17 ^S^ (being the Day appointed for meeting by the above 
 Warning) was read, letting forth, That they had great Reafon 
 to apprehend and believe, that there had been for feveral Years 
 laft paft, many irregular Proceedings, by which large Sums of 
 Money have been raifed upon the refpedive Parifhes and Divi- 
 (ions in this County, under Pretence of pafling Vagrants, which 
 has been a great Burthen and Hardftiip to the feveral Parifties ; 
 therefore the Churchwardens and principal Inhabitants of the 
 Parifti being unanimous in their Opinion, that the faid Rates 
 were direfted and made contrary to Law, and the Money raifed 
 by virtue thereof notorioufly mifapplied, do agree to authorize 
 and impower the Churchwardens for the Time being, in Con- 
 jun£lion with 'T'homas Robe^ Efqj to fue, or caufe to be fued, 
 or otherwife profecute, as they ftiall be advifcd by Counfel, 
 how, and in what Manner, and by what Authority the faid 
 Pariftics have been aflefled and taxed, and how and in what 
 manner all Sums of Money, raifed under Pretence of palling 
 Vagrants, have been applied, and to what Ufes the fame have 
 
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 been converted ; provided the Charge, that fliall or may accrue 
 thereby, do not exceed the Sum of Ten Pounds ; And they 
 likewife Impowcr the Churchwardens for the Time being, and 
 the faid Thomas Rohe, Efq; to join and aft in concert with any 
 other Parifh or Parifhes, or Divifions, in order for the more 
 efFedually profecuting this Affair, and to obtain a Redrcfs of 
 the faid Grievances ; and they alfo declare, that they will fup- 
 port, maintain and indemnify the Churchwardens for any thing 
 they Ihall do in Purfuit of this Matter, and in Defence of the 
 Liberty and Property of the Parilh, not exceeding the Sum 
 above-mentioned. 
 
 Then Thomas Atfel^ Veftry Clerk of the faid Parifh, being 
 asked, By whofe Diredion he wrote the faid Order ? faid, That 
 he copied the fame from a Paper brought into the Veftry Room 
 by Mr. Robe and Mr. Rohtnjon \ that Mr. Rohe read the Paper 
 to him, but he believes it was Mr. R.ohinfon'% Hand-writing. 
 
 fohn Jennings^ an Inhabitant oi Clerkenwell^ being examin'd, 
 laid, That he was prefent at the faid Parifh Meeting; that he 
 went there to fee what was to be done ; that Mr, Robe accufed 
 the Juftices of ill Conduft, and Mr. Rohinfon likewife ; that 
 Mr. Robe advifed the coming to that Refolution, and undertook 
 the profecuting of the Juftices \ that it was he, the Examinant, 
 that propofed to reftrain the Expence to Ten Pounds. 
 
 Robert Trott being again examined faid. That on Sunday the 
 14th of March 1735, he gave Notice for a Parifh Meeting to be 
 held on the T'neJ'day following, to confider of proper Meafures 
 to be taken in order for the Recovery of the Vagrant Money 
 which had been illegally received, and likewife to take into Con- 
 fideration what further Proceedings were necelfary to be carried 
 on in relation to that and any other Grievance of the like Nature. 
 
 Being asked. From whom he had the faid Notice ? he faid. It 
 was given him in the Desk, but does not remember by whom. 
 
 Thomas Anfell being fhewn the fiid Notice faid. That he be- 
 lieved it to be Mr. Rob'vnfon'^ Hand-writing. 
 
 Then the Proceedings of the Veftry on Tnefday March the 
 i<5th were read, where they agreed A/i?w. Con. to allow to Tho- 
 mas Robe, E^^lj 10 L towards his Charge in petitioning the Par- 
 liament on account of the Vagrant Money in Conjundion with 
 
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 Other Parlfties ; and they then refolved that an humble Appli- 
 cation be made to Parliament in order that proper Meafures be 
 taken for an Enquiry to be made purfuant to the following Pe- 
 tition. 
 
 *' To the Honourable the Commons of Gre^/ Britain in Parlia- 
 ment aflembled, The humble Petition of the Church-wardens, 
 Overfeers of the Poor, and great Numbers of the Inhabitants of 
 the Parifh of St. James's Clerkeuwelly in the County of Middle- 
 /ex, humbly fheweth, That the Juftices of the Peace for the fiid 
 County of Middlejex, having for many Years laft paft levied 
 very large Sums on your Petitioners, under Colour of palling 
 Vagrants, repairing Bridges and Gaols, and relieving maimed 
 Soldiers and Mariners, and divers other Pretences j and your 
 Petitioners having very juft and reafonable Grounds to believe 
 that great Part of the faid Money has not been applied for the 
 Purpofes for which it was pretended to be raifed ; but that the 
 fame has been notorioufiy mifapplied and embezzled, as your 
 Petitioners do not doubt but they can be able to make appear 
 to the Satisfaction of this honourable Houfe ; by the Means of 
 which Mifapplications and Embezzlements as aforefaid, we have 
 been grievoufly burthened and oppreffed with very heavy, and, 
 as your Petitioners moft humbly conceive, illegal Taxes and AlTeff- 
 ments ; and your Petitioners having no effedual Method of Re- 
 drefs againft the Perfons concerned in the raifing, receiving, and 
 difpofing of the faid Money, nor againft fuch a Violation of Truft 
 and Invaflon of Property as your Petitioners complain of, fave 
 only by an Application to Parliament, without which Aid and 
 Interpofition they apprehend themfelves expofed to the like 
 Hardlhips and Impolitions for the future. 
 
 Wherefore your Petitioners humbly hope the Honourable 
 Houfe will take the Premifes into Confideration, and grant them 
 fuch Relief as they in their great Wildom and Juftice (hall fee 
 meet. 
 
 j^ndyour Petitioners Jl) all ever fray." 
 
 Then an Order of Veftry held October the lath, ly^S. im- 
 powering the Church-wardens to defend that Parifh in Conjunc- 
 tion with any other Parifli or Parifhes from any Rate or Ra.tcs 
 that have or fhall be illegally impofed by the Juftices of the 
 Peace either at the Quartcr-Seflions or otherwife, was produced 
 and read. 
 
 And another Order of Veftry made December the a7th, 173^, 
 was read, whereby an humble Application was agreed to be 
 
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 made at the next cnfuing Seflions of Parliament, in Conjunftion 
 with any other Parifh or Parifhcs by Petition, in order to bring 
 the Juftices of M'tddkjex to an Account for the Vagrant Rate, 
 and other Impofitions \ and likewife to oppofe any other or fur- 
 ther Addition of Power being granted to that P^ody that may any 
 ways afFeft the Inhabitants by depriving them of their prelent 
 Right in the Management of the Poor ; and JVtUiam Stephens 
 was direded to advance Ten Guineas out of the Mortuary Money j 
 and it is thereby direded to be allowed in his Account. 
 
 fViI/iamStepbens,Gta.ve~Digs;eT of Ckrkenwel/y being examined, 
 laid, That he paid the Sum of Ten Guineas out of the Mortuary 
 Money by him coUedcd for the Ufe of the Parifh of St. Ja?nej's 
 Clerkenwell io Mt.Lebasy towards defraying the Expence of car- 
 rying on the Petition in Parliament againft the Juftices; that he 
 took a Receipt for the fame, and put it upon his File amongft 
 others, and that carrying the faid File to Mr. Robe's Houfe he 
 loft it. 
 
 Mr. Lebas acknowledged the Receipt of the faid Ten Guineas 
 to your Committee. 
 
 James Arnold being fhewed the Petition prefented this Seflions 
 to the Houfe, and being asked. If the Name James ytrnoldfkx. 
 under the Title of St. "James's Clerkenwell^ was of his writing, 
 he faid, That he could not write ; nor did he give any Authority 
 to any body to fet his Name, or know till lately that his Name 
 was fet to it. 
 
 Being asked, How he knew it wasdefigned for his Name? he 
 faid. That he believed there was no other of the fame Name in 
 that Parifh. 
 
 RobertHayneSy of St. James''s Clerkenwell, being examined, faid, 
 that he fet his Hand to the faid Petition at the Defire of Mr. 
 Robe, who faid it was for the Good of the Parifh ; but he never 
 read it ; that he rcfufed at firft to fign it, but that Mr. Robe {aid 
 others had done it, and that his Name would never be called in 
 Queftion. 
 
 Being asked, If he had ever been threatened by Mr. Mlchelh 
 he faid, that he never was. 
 
 He faid. That he was asked to lign Arnold's Name ; which he 
 refufed, but the Veftry Clerk did it; that Mr. Robe faid, It was 
 
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 not fair, and that he ought to know it, and bid Anfell^ Veftry 
 Clerk, go to Arnold and acquaint him with it, and that if he 
 did not like it, he fhould fcratch his Name out ; that this I'ranf- 
 action was at Mr. Rohe'i Houle. 
 
 Thomas Jnfell^ Veftry Qerk, being examined, faid, That he 
 was fent for to Mr. Robe\ Houle \ that the Petition was there j 
 that Mr. Robe defircd Huynes to write Afnold's Name, which he 
 refufed j thereupon Mr. fVedmerpoole bid the Examinant fet it. 
 
 Being asked, If he had any Dire£lions to acquaint JrtioldihtxC' 
 ■with, he laid No; and further laid, That he never heard Mr. i?o^e 
 lay it was not fair ; and that Mr. fVedmerfooIe told this Exami- 
 nant the Morning he was examined before your Committee, that 
 Arnold gave him Orders to fign his Name. 
 
 They then produced the Veftry Book of St. Sepulchres \ and 
 
 fViUiam Haskhis^ Mafter of the Workhoufe belonging to the 
 faid Parifh, being fhewn an Entry made in the faid Book dated 
 March the i8th, 1735, faid. That he wrote the fame from a 
 Paper that he produced to your Committee, which he found upon 
 a Tabic in the Veftry Room, but docs not know who brought 
 it. 
 
 Being asked, W^ho gave him Diredions for entering it in the 
 Book ? he faid, That Mr. Robe's Clerk told him it was proper it 
 Ihould be entered. 
 
 ' Being asked, If Mr. Robe's Clerk belonged to the Parifti? he 
 faid No. 
 
 Being asked. How he came to take his Direftions from him ? he 
 faid, He apprehended the Paper to be his Hand- writing ; that he j 
 believed it was Mr. Robe's doing, becaufe he was at the Veftry 
 that Evening about Six o'Clock, and the Paper was not there 
 before he came. 
 
 7'homas Smith, Clerk of Nezv Pri/buy being ftiewn the fame- ' 
 Paper, faid, That it was hisHapd Writing, and that he wrote the 
 fame by Mr. Robe's Direftion in Mr. Robe's Office ; that fVilUam 
 Walker is Mr. Robe's Clerk, 
 
 Mr. 
 
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 Mr. pyiUiam Haskins then produced two other Papers, which 
 he laid he found upon the Veftry Table likewife. 
 
 'Thomas Bray being examined, faid, That the two Papers fhewed 
 to him, and which were the two laft produced by Haskhu^ were 
 of the Hand- writing of William Walker ^ Mr. Robe's Clerk j the 
 Firft is a Draught of a petition to Parliament againft the Juftices ; 
 the Second, Diredions for calling a Veftry for promoting the 
 fame, and what was to be done at the faid Veftry j the Third 
 was a Precedent for a Demand to be made by any Church- warden 
 upon any High Conftable for any Money that the faid Church- 
 warden may have paid the faid Conftable on the laft Vagrant 
 Rate, with a Counfel's Opinion annexed thereto j Copies where- 
 of are hereunto annexed N^ XXVIII, 
 
 Mr. yohn Robhifony of St. Sepulchres^ faid, That he was at a 
 Veftry in 1735, when 10 /. \o s. was ordered for Mr. Rohe^ 
 and directed to be paid out of the Poors Money ; that he being 
 Overfeer of the Poor, refufed to pay it, faying. What was raifed 
 for the Poor, could not be applied to any Thing elfe j that on 
 the Third of March 173^, another Order was made to pay the 
 laid Mr. Rohe 10/.; that the fame was confirmed at a fublequent 
 Veftry ; and that at a third Veftry, the Queftion being put for 
 paying the laid Mr. Robe^ Forty- nine out of Fifty were for it. 
 
 Your Committee obferving that no Entry of this laft Proceed- 
 ing was made in their Books, 
 
 fohn Wtllsy Clerk to the Veftry, was called, who faid. That 
 the Affair mentioned by Mr. Rob'mfon, was entered upon a loole 
 Paper, and that the Church-warden declaring he would never 
 pay the faid Money, and direfting him not to enter it into the 
 Book, he had loft the faid Paper. 
 
 Mr. ^^0^2 ^/'^iJ/Zj' being examined, faid, That he figned the 
 faid Petition ; that Mr. Robe brought it to him, but he never 
 read it. 
 
 Thomas Anfell being again examined, laid, That he and Mr. 
 Wedmerfoole carried the Petition about the Parilh of St. James 
 Clerkenwell to get it figned, and that they had it from Mr. Robe^ 
 and returned it to him. 
 
 lAx. Robert fVimberley^oi St.Clement's Danes,heing examined, 
 faid, ThaiMr. Robe came with a Neighbour of his, and asked him, 
 
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 If he was not a Church- warden ? that he replied, he was; that 
 he then told him, that he had quafhed an Order made at Hkks's 
 Hall for a Vagrant Rate ; that he had taken Gounfel's Opinion 
 about it, and had been at great Expence, and defired him. to 
 join with him and call a Veftry to lay the Affair before them j 
 that he produced a Paper to hini, which he defired might be laid 
 before the faid Veftry i that he did (hew the flime to the Veftiy, 
 but that they took no Notice of it ; Mr. Robe likewife bid him 
 not ftiew that Paper to any Juftices of the Peace, for that they 
 would be entirely againft it. 
 
 Your Committee think proper to obferve, That the faid Paper 
 was a Copy of the Cafe and Opinion of Cdunfel left in the Veftry 
 of St. Sepulchres, which is hereunto annexed No. XXVIII. 
 
 They then produced the Veftry-Book of the Parifh of St. 
 Afaiy'sy Whitechape]^ and read an Order dated March the t^th, 
 1735, directing the P.enter- Wardens of the faid Parifh to wait 
 on T'homas Robe\ Efq; and prefent him with Ten Guineas, to- 
 wards affifting him in the Profecution of fuch Methods as he 
 ftiall legally take for recovering of fuch Monies already paid by 
 feveral Parifhes to their great Wrong j and likewife dircd?ing a 
 Demand to be made of Mr. 'Philip Betty, the prefent High Con- 
 ftable, of the Monies by him received under Colour of pafting 
 Vagrants, and repairing Bridges. 
 
 Mr. Henry Sotttkall, Renter- Warden, being examined, faid, 
 That he paid the faid Svmi of 10 /. 10 s. to Mr. Robe, and pro- 
 duced a Receipt for the fame ; that he figned the Petition pre- 
 ferred to the Parlianaent laft Year -, that Mr. Robe brought him 
 another this Year, which he refufed to fign ; that he was at a 
 Meeting at the Pope's-Head Tavern in or about j^pril 1 73 j, with 
 feveral other People; that Mr. Robe and Mr. Robhifon were there ; 
 that they laid the Country had been much impofed upon ; that 
 they produced Papers and Accounts to fhew that feveral Confta- 
 bles had not been paid their Due. 
 
 Mr. fViUiamBryan,ofWhitechape], beingexamined, faid, That 
 he was at a Meeting at the ^o/'^'s-//<?4^ Tavern, where it was 
 propofcd to contribute to carry on a Profecution in Parliament; 
 th.u he faid nothing could be pa^d without a Veftry ; that foon 
 after a Veftry was called at Whitechapel, where 10 /. \o s. was 
 ordered to be paid to Mr. Robe ; but they declared they would 
 
 not
 
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 not be concerned in a Profccution m Pjirliament-; tha,t th 
 gave it him for his TroiibL. 
 
 Mf. Jobu H'tggs being examined, faid, That >vhen he was con- 
 cerned 'in defending the Profccutibh againfi: N'unvood, Mj. Robe 
 frequently declared'to him, that he vvoukI be revenged of the 
 Juftices, and that he woiiKi fpend j or 600 I. to plague them ; 
 and that he would remove all their Orders into the King -Bench', 
 and particularly he would plague old Mibier^foi constantly op- 
 pofihg him in the Exercife of his Patent as Clerk of the Market 
 for the King's Houfhold, and that he would bring th^r^.. before 
 the Parliament. .... 
 
 Mr. Robert Day^ Church-warden of the Parifti of Cbrift- 
 Church^ Spittkjieldsy faid, thatapon a Summons of Mr. Robe and 
 others to the Church- warden of his Parifh among others to meet 
 ziil^c'I'opes's-Htad Tavern on the ijth QfOi^/t^Z't^r 173.6, he 
 went ; that Mr. Robe came in foon after him, and faid, That he 
 had left the Juftices at Hkks's-Hall in a great Fright, having 
 Ibme Notion of that Meeting \ that the faid Mr. Robe recom- 
 mended Mr. Lebas^ who was Church- warden of St. Giles's Parifh, 
 to take the Chair, which he accepted of, but did not change his 
 place j and that, Mr. Kobe llkewife recommended a Secretary 
 whom he called his Sidefman \ Mr. Rohe then told them,. That 
 now w:as their Time to apply, and that they had no Remedy but 
 by Parliament j that the Vagrant Money had been illegally 
 raifed, and unjuftly applied \ that the Complaint muft not be 
 made in his Name, but in the Names of the Church-wardens and 
 the Parifiies, but that he would affift as much as polTible j and 
 -that the Expcnce muft be born by the Veftries, it being for 
 piiblick Service j that he faid, he was too late the laft Year, but 
 •advifed them to get ready this. 
 
 Being asked, Whom he was directed to enquire for when he 
 came to the faid Tavern 1 he faid, For Mr.i?6^fj and doing fo, he 
 was carried up into a Room, where Mr. Robe came foon after. 
 
 Mr. 'JohnH'tggshtxn^ again examined, faid, That upon aPre- 
 fentment ol Brentford Bridge being out of Repair, Mr. Robe^ at 
 a Meeting of the Sellions, oppofed the raifing 200 /. for the fame, 
 it exceeding the Eftimate given in by the Grand Jury \ that 
 thereupon the Repair was put off for two or three Months, by 
 which the Bridge fuffered much ; that it coft the County lo or 
 30 /. the more for that j that after that, the faid Mr. Robe pro- 
 
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 pofed building the fame with Stone, and produced an Eftimatc 
 of 1 300 /. for doing the fame ; that he employed Mr. M^reathock 
 as his Attorney to remove the Vagrant Rate in 1734. 
 
 7'homas CkytieU, Clerk to the Clerk of the Peace, faid. That 
 Mr. Wilk'wfon drew out the Charges of removing the Vagrant 
 Rate, and gave it to him j and that he carried it to fVreathocky 
 who paid him the Bill. 
 
 Mr. Thomas fVtlk'wfon being examined, faid, That \nyanuary 
 laft he was in Company with Mr. Robe at a CofFee-houfe, when 
 he advifed him not to carry on his Profecutions ; and that here- 
 plied. He would; and after that, that he would fet up the Clerk 
 of the Market's Place again. 
 
 Henry Maftermau^ Efq; Secondary in the Crown-Office, being 
 examined, faid. That upon the firft Order of Removal of the Va- 
 grant's Rate, Mr. Robe paid him the Fees, and that Mr. Lebas 
 paid him for the fecond, and likewife for the Removal of the 
 Orders for Rates for the Repair of Brentford Bridge, and Houfc 
 of Corredion. 
 
 He further faid. That there had been a general Complaint of 
 the Prifoners in the King s-Bench of their not receiving their 
 Money from their refpeftive Counties according to Law ; that he 
 believes he may have asked Mr. Hlggs for the fame, and that he 
 paid him j and that the County oi Middle/ex is not inArrear. 
 
 Thomas Wilkinfon being again examined, faid, That he had 
 been an Officer under the Clerk of the Peace for aj Years; that 
 he had paid the Exhibition Money to the King's Bench and 
 Marjhalfea^ being two Guineas yearly out of the Colt-Money j 
 that he never knew the Juftices fpend the publick Money at 
 any Meeting ; that they always paid the Expences of the Meet- 
 ings at JVeftminflery and other extraordinary Expences, where 
 the Sheriff did not treat, out of the Colt- Money. 
 
 Being asked, If he never knew any Conflables apply to be 
 reimburfed for palling Vagrants, who had been refufed ? he faid, 
 That about twenty-five Years ago there was a Complaint that 
 the Charge of pafling of Vagrants ran very high, to remedy 
 which the Juftices were defired to tax the Certificates, and thofe 
 that exceeded the Order of SclRons have been lefufed. 
 
 Mr.
 
 [4> 3 
 
 Mr. 'John H'lggs being examined as to that Fa6l, faid. Thai , 
 fince he had beeniniployed, all that brought proper Certificates 
 had been paid, except the Parilh of St. Giles, who have re- 
 fufed to pay the three laft Rates. 
 
 Then an Order of SefTions, dated May the 7th 1703, fixing- 
 6d. pur Mile, and no more, for pafllng Vagrants, was read. 
 
 fhomas Jenner, Efq; one of his Majefty's Juftices of the 
 Peace, being examined, faid, That he had never adviied the Peo- 
 ple not to pay the Rates ; that his Neighbours had often ap- 
 plied to him about the Vagrant Rate; and that he told them, It 
 was a necefTaiy Rate, and niuft be paid ; that it was for the 
 Good of the County ; that upon Mr. Cotejwortb's Death he ad- 
 vifed the High Conftable not to part with the Money in his 
 Hands till a new Treafurer was chofen, 
 
 7'homasBurdasy Efq; being examined, faid, That he had never 
 advifed any Body wlutfoever not to pay the Rates. 
 
 Mr. Le Bas being fhewn the Petition prefented this Seflion 
 to Parliament, acknowledged that he figned the faid Petition. 
 
 yoh)i Brad/haw, Door-keeper to the Houfe of Commons, 
 ^ being fhewn a printed Paper, intituled, T'be Ca/e of the T'axes 
 ' and rijfejjments rai/ed upo>i the County o/'Middlefex, and asked. 
 If he delivered out fuch Papers, and by whofe Diredion.'' faid, 
 Thit he did deliver fuch Papers at the Door of the Houfe of 
 .Commons; that they were brought to him by a Porter^ and 
 i> that Mr. Rvhs or Mr. Le Bas paid him for fo doing. 
 
 fralter Mor^het, likewife a Door-keeper to the Houfe of 
 Commons, fiid. That the afore-mentioned Paper was brought by 
 a Porter, and that Mr. Robe and Mr. Le Bas came with him, 
 and that he faw Mr. Le Bas pay Brad^Jaw for delivering out 
 the lame ; a Copy of the above-mentioned Paper is added by- 
 way of Appendix, No XXIX. 
 
 The Petitioners then, by way of Reply, read 
 
 The 14th Se^'wn of an Act paffed in the 43d Year of the Reign 
 of Queen Ehz. Intituled, Jn Jcifor the Relief of the Poor^ concern' 
 ii.igtheReliej uf the poor Prifoners of the King's Bench and Mar- 
 ihaliea, which direds the juftices of the Peace, in their General 
 
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 [40 
 
 Quarter SelTions, to fct down what competent Sums of Money fhall 
 be fent Quarterly out of every County for the fame, which ftiall 
 be rateably affefled on every Parifh ; and the Churchwardens 
 ihall colleft the fame, and pay it over to the High Conftable 
 of their Divifion ; and the High Conftable Ihall pay the fame 
 to two fuch Treafurers, or one of them, as the Juitices fhall 
 eled, the faid Treafurers to continue for one Year, and then to 
 give up their Charge, with a due Account of the Receipts and 
 Disburfements, at the Seflions to be holden next after Eajier^ to 
 fuch others, as fhall from Year to Year be eleded Treafurers j 
 and the faid Treafurers, or one of them, fhall pay over the 
 fame to the Lord Chief Juftice of England and Knight Mar- 
 flial. 
 
 Se^ion the 13th of the faid Ad: was likewife read, which 
 direds the Surplufage of the laid Money to be beftowed by the 
 Difcretion of the faid Juftices, for the Relief of Hofpitals, and 
 of thofe who fhall fuftain Loffesby Fire, Water, by Sea, or other 
 Cafualties, and to fuch other Charitable Purpofes as to the more 
 Part of them fhall feem meet. 
 
 They then proceeded to objed to the Accounts delivered in 
 by the Juftices relating to Vagrants, and alledged, that the 
 feveral Sums of Money paid to Perfons by Contrad for the 
 palling of Vagrants, was an Imbezzlement of the publick Money, 
 and contrary to Ad of Parliament 5 To prove which, they read 
 
 Se0. 10. of an Ad pafTed in the i a th Year of Queen ^w/;?, 
 Intituled, jln AB for reducing the Laws relating to Rogues^ Fa- 
 gabonds^ Sturdy Beggars and Fcigrants^ into one AH of farlia- 
 menty and for the more effeBual punijhing fuch Rogues^ Vaga- 
 bonds, Sturdy Beggars and Vagrants, and Jending them whither 
 they ought to be fent, whereby the Conftable is direded to con- 
 vey the Vagrant, as direded by the Pafs, and deliver him to 
 the Conftable of the Place whither he is fent : Alfo 
 
 Seii. 10. of the faid Ad, whereby the Juftices of the Peace are 
 direded to limit and dired what Rates or Allowances ^tr Mile, or 
 otherwife, fhall be made for the palling, conveying or maintaining 
 of Vagrants; and likewife are impowered to make fuch other 
 Orders, Rules, and Diredions for the regular proceeding or ad- 
 ing therein, as they, in their Difcretion, ftiall think proper, 
 which fhall be obferved and fubmitted to by all other Juftices 
 of the Peace, Gonftables, Officers, or other Perfons. 
 
 Alfo
 
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 Alfo Se£f. the 14th of the fame A*^: was read ; which dire(Els 
 that the Chief Conftable Ihall pay to every Petty Conftable the 
 Rates and Allowances afcertained in the Certificates by him 
 produced, attefted by any Jufticc of the Peace, with a Receipt 
 from the Conftable, to whom he deli^^er'd the Perfon or Perfons 
 fo to be conveyed j which Certificate the Chief Conftable Ihall 
 be allowed to difcount in his Account to be made with the 
 Treafurcr of the County. 
 
 They likewife infifted, That the Lofs fuftained by Joaej, was 
 owing to his being appointed Trcafurer of more Hundreds than 
 he ought to have been j To prove which they read 
 
 Se£f. the 1 3th of the aforefaid Ad 5 which direds, That the jMo- 
 neys to be raifed for pafling of Vagrants ftiall be quarterly paid to 
 the Chief Conftables of eachDivifion, in fuch manner as that they 
 may have a Quarterly Payment in their Hands • and that the 
 faid Chief Conftables ftiall, twice in a Year, or oftner, as the 
 faid Juftices ftiall direft, account for the fame with the Trea- 
 furcr of the County. 
 
 They likewife objefted, That the appointing Mr. Cote/worth 
 and Mr. Osborne Treafurers of the Vagrant Rates, neither of 
 them being High Conftables, was illegal ; and that all the Mo- 
 ney loft by Mr. Cote/worth, amounting in the Whole to 404 /. 
 
 10 s. 8 ^., was an Embezzlement. 
 
 Upon the Head of County Bridges they objefted, That 45 /. 1 7 s. 
 
 11 d. charged as expended in going to view the faid Bridges, and 
 45) /. ly s. a d. paid to Mrs. Offley, were Embezzlements contrary 
 to an Aft pafled in the Firft Year of Queen Anne^ intituled, An 
 AH to explain and alter the ASt made In the Two and twentieth Tear 
 of King Henry VIII. concerning Repairing and Amending of Bridges 
 in the Highways : And for Repealing an Aci made in the Twenty-third 
 Tear of ,^ueen Eliz. Jor the Re-edifying of Cardiff Bridge in the 
 County 0/ Glamorgan : And alfo for changing the Day of Eleiiion of 
 the Wardens and Ajjifiants op Rochefter Bridge \ To prove which, 
 
 Se£i. the 2d of the faid Acl was read, direding the Juftices of 
 the Peace, at their General or Quarter Seflions, upon Prefent- 
 ment to them made, to aflefs every Town, Parifh, or Place, 
 within their Jurifdidion, for Repairing of the fame ; which 
 the Conftables, or fuch other Perfons as the Juftices ftiall ap- 
 point, ftiall colled j and the Money thereby raifed ftiall be 
 paid over by them to the High Conftables, who are to pay the 
 feme to fuch Perfon and Perfons, as the faid Juftices by their 
 
 Order
 
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 Order (hall appoint to be Treafurers of the fame, to be em- 
 ployed for amending the laid Bridges, and the Highways at the 
 End of the faid Bridges, as Need (hall require. 
 
 SeB. the 6th of the faid Acl was likevvifc read ; whereby 
 the Juftices, at their General Quarter Seffions, are impovver'd to 
 allow Perfons concern'd in the Execution of that Aft, any Sum 
 not exceeding Three Pence in the Pound. 
 
 Upon the Accounts of maimed Soldiers and Mariners they ob- 
 jefted, That the Sum annually allowed to the Treafurer's Clerk, 
 being two Pounds ten Shillings, was an Embezzlement, and con- 
 trary to an Adl of the 43d of Elizabeth^ intitied, ydn Aci for 
 nece£ary Relief of Soldiers and Mariners. 
 
 Se^f. the 5th of the faid A61 was read j which direds, That 
 the Church- Wardens and Petty Conftables of every Parilh, (hall 
 colled the Rate laid by the faid Ad, and ftiall pay over the 
 fame to the High Conftable ; who Ihall pay over the fame to 
 fuch Juftices of Peace, or to two fuch other Perfons or one of 
 them, as the more Part of the Juftices ftiall cled to be Trea- 
 furers of the faid CoUedion ; which Treafurers ihall continue 
 for one whole Year, and then give up their Charge, with a due 
 Account of their Receipts and Disburfements, at Rafler Seffions, 
 or within ten Days after, to fuch other, as ftiall be fucceifively 
 eleded. 
 
 And SeB. the 14th of the faid Ad was alfo read ; by whjch 
 the Surplufage of the faid Money is ordered to be diftributed 
 upon fuch good and charitable Ufcs, as are appointed concern.- 
 ing Relief of the Poor, and Puniftiment of Rogues and 
 Beggars. 
 
 They likewife infifted, That the Sum of 245* /. 2 j. %d. 
 charged to have been expended on maimed Soldiers and Mariners 
 within the Hundreds of Ell home, Spelthorn, and IJlezvorthy had 
 been embezzled, no V^ouchers having been produced for the 
 fame ; nor had it been properly accounted for in Seflions, as it 
 ought to have been. 
 
 They next objeded to the Accounts delivered in, called 
 Sir Daviel DoHjjs's General Account ; wherein he acknowledges 
 to have received 2yy I. ^ s. in order to replace Moneys former- 
 ly borrowed from the publick Moneys for the Repair of Hicks's 
 
 Hall'^
 
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 Hall'^ %y I. ijs.id. of which MoHcy, they all edged, appears 
 by the faid Sir Daniel Dolins's Account, to have been re- 
 expended, and produced their Method of Stating the Account, 
 a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed, N^ XXX j by which 
 Account it is ftated, that he had expended as much upon the 
 Repair of Bridges as he received on that Head ; as much like- 
 wife on the Houfe of Correftion, as he had received on that ; 
 that he had expended on the Repair of Hicks's Hall., the Sum 
 of 1064 /. 17 J. 5 d. ; and that he tiad received only, of County 
 Rents, 577/. is. 3c/.; and that therefore the Sum of 87 /. 
 15 J. id. being the Difference between the Money received and 
 Money expended on that Head, muft have been taken out of 
 the Money replaced, the faid Sir Z>^«iif/ having acknowledged 
 the Receipt of no other Moneys. 
 
 They likewife infilled, that the feveral Sums of Money ex- 
 pended in carrying on Profecutions, were Embezzlements. 
 
 They then proceeded to fhew, what Petty Conftables had 
 been refufed their Money for palling of Vagrants, and called 
 
 yohn Clarke., Conftable of Keiifington for the Years 1730 and 
 1731, who laid, That there was due to him the Sum of 7 /. is. 
 for palling of Vagrants ; that he applied to Mr. Higgs for the 
 l*ame ; that he bid him come again ; that he had not Money in 
 his Hands j that he applied at Hicks's Hall ten or twelve times j 
 but that he never petitioned the Sefllons ; that he fpoke to 
 Mr. Mtlt7ei\ who told him he Ihould have his Money ; that he 
 likewife fpoke to Col. Martin, who told him he fhould have 
 his Money, if he would apply in a regular manner by Petition, 
 as Chejler had done. 
 
 Being asked, if he had ever applied to PVilliam Lonfdale., 
 High Conftable of Kensington Divifion ? he faid. That he had 
 often applied to him \ but that he faid, he had no Money. 
 
 Henry Burton, Conftable of Ktnpngton for the Years 1733 
 and 1734, faid. That he applied to Mr. Higgs for the Money 
 due to him for palling of Vagrants, being about 3/. 16s.; that 
 he direded him to apply to the Court, and Mr. Martin adviled 
 him to do it by Petition ; that he had been three times at Hicks's 
 Hall, but that he never petitioned ; that one Mr. Chefier had an 
 Order cf Court, and his Money paid him. Being asked,- If he 
 had ever applied to jVilliam Lcnjdale, High Conftable, for his 
 Money ? he faid. He did, and that he promifed to pay him. 
 
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 The Petitioners then proceeded to fhew, that Mr. Robe and 
 Mr. Lehas were not the only Promoters of the Petition againlt 
 the Juftices; In order to prove which, they called 
 
 Capt. H^iltuwi Taiver^ Church-Warden of Ratcl'iffe^ who 
 faid, That one Mr. Cockam told him, that there was to be a 
 Meeting at the Pope'j-head about the Juftices ; that he went 
 there; that Mr. iSoZ-^ was there, and Mr. Lebas -^ that Mr. Robe 
 faid, Mr. Lebaj was a very pretty Gentleman, and would do 
 great Service in the Affair againft the Juftices ; and that there- 
 upon they defired him to be Prefident, which he accepted of, 
 and defired Mr. Robe to aflift him, to which he confented. 
 
 Being asked, How he came to think the Juftices had mil- 
 applied the Money ? he faid, That their Hamlet had been in- 
 dited for not paying the Vagrant Rate, when not one Vagrant, 
 had been palTed from that Hamlet for fome Years. 
 
 Being asked, When that Indictment was brought ? he faid, It 
 was after their firft Meeting. 
 
 Being asked, If he figned the Petition to Parliament of his 
 own accord^.? he faid, He did, and fo did all the Hamlet. 
 
 Mr. Fraticis Cochwcy Church-Warden of Mile-end old Town, 
 being examined, laid, That he was prefent at both the Meet- 
 ings with a great many Church-Wardens and others ; that they had 
 been long aggrieved by the Vagrant and maimed Soldiers 
 Rates j that Captain Brookes firft told him of the Meeting, and 
 defired him to be there ; that they unanimoufly appointed 
 Mr. Lebas to conduct the Affair, but that he with Reluctance 
 accepted ot it ; that they had not pafl'ed a Vagrant out of their 
 Parifh for Seven Years ; that he was concerned in the Petition 
 laft Year; that Mr. Lebas was not; that Mr, Ltbas was chofen 
 Prefident at the Pope's-head Tavern, and Mr. Robe was defired 
 to affift him ; and that, fince that Time, he had received Let- 
 ters from Mr. Lebas^ about Meetings; that he never met 
 Mr. Lebas till laft October. 
 
 Being asked, If there was any RefoUition taken how to defray 
 the Expence ? he faid, Yes ; and that Mr. Edmiwd irrigbt and he, 
 anfwcrcdfor their Parilhes bearing their Part of the Expence in 
 applying to i^urliament. 
 
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 Captiim 'Tdul Lf/Iywh/te, Ovcrfeer of the Poor for ^ateli^, 
 being examined, faid, That he was at both the Meetings at the 
 Pope's-bead an(i the Crown ; that Mr. Lebas was chofcn Prcfi- 
 dent ; that they had a Town Meeting, before the Meeting .at 
 the Pope's-head-^ that they wefe defirous of petitioning the Pai> 
 liamenc ; that they had heard Mr. Robe was at Law with the 
 juftices, fo they joined him, to do themfelves Jufticc and ftand 
 by one another, that they might know what was become of 
 the Vagrant Money ; for that not one Vagrant had been pafTc^ 
 from their Hamlet for Twenty Years ^ that he never favv 
 Mr, Lcbas before thofe Meetings ; that their Parifh went to 
 Counfel, to ask Advice; that they all thought to right them- 
 lelves ; that they had a Town Meeting upon this Subjcft be- 
 fore he knew Mr. Robe ; that Captain Brookes told him of the 
 Meetings at the Tavern ; that he had heard Mr. Robe could let 
 them into this Affair; that they agreed, at a Pariih Meeting, to 
 fupport the Expence in Parliament. 
 
 Mr. Bcrjatnin Atkins of Hatton-gardenhcxng examined, faid> 
 That he was at feveral Meetings at the "Tope's -head and Crown -^ 
 that there were great Complaints about the Vagrant Money ; 
 that they agreed to petition the Parliament ; that he was con- 
 cerned in the former Petition to Parliament, but that he did not 
 then know Mr. Lcbas ; that he was not follicited by any body 
 to Petition ; that there were Seventeen or Eighteen Peribns 
 prefent at thofe Meetings, and that they were all defirous of it, 
 and promifed to bear the Expence out of their own Pockets; 
 that Mr. Lebas was chofen Chairman at the '■Popes-head \ and, 
 that they agreed to print Summons's for their Meeting, and he 
 to fend them. 
 
 Being asked, Whom he inquired for at the firfl: Meeting at 
 the Popes- head? he faid, He did not well remember, but he 
 believes he might ask for Mr. Robe, he having been told he was 
 to be there. 
 
 Being asked. Who propofed Mr. Lebas for Prefident ? he faid, 
 No particular Ferfon ; but it was laid, in general, that he was 
 an ingenious Gentleman, and a good Penman. 
 
 Being asked the Reafon of his complaining againft the 
 Juftices ? he laid, That their little Divifion paid as much to the 
 Vagrant Rate as the Pariih of Clcrkenwell. 
 
 Being
 
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 Being asked, If he had. never applied to the Seflions for 
 Relief? he faid. No. 
 
 He further faid, That one Booker, and }Vyhourn^ Conftables 
 of their Divifion, had a Meeting, with others, at the Crown in 
 Hattou-garden \ and that fVreathock was there, and gave his 
 Opinion about quafliing the Vagrant Rate 1734, and undertook 
 to do it for Ten Guineas \ that they agreed to it, and it was 
 done ; that Mr. Robe was not thenprefent, nor concerned in it j 
 that the Examinant agreed to pay a Guinea towards it j which 
 he did, but does not remember to whom ; but is fure it was not 
 to Mr. Robe ; that this was before ffreathock fell into his Mif- 
 fortunes. 
 
 Henry Joiies^ Churchwarden for Ratdiffe in the Year 1733, 
 faid. That he had an Order from the Conflable for the Pay- 
 ment of 8/. 13 J. \d.\ but he never paid it : That he fiiewed 
 the faid Order to the Inhabitants, who bid him not pay it : 
 That he was advifed, that he might demand to fee the Ac- 
 count ; and accordingly he went to make the faid Demand : 
 That Colonel Martin huffed him, and asked him, Iftheymuft 
 fliew their Accounts to every Fellow ? That other Juftices told 
 him. They had kept no Accounts, that their Trealiirer broke, 
 and that they had loft 600/. by him : That he was direded 
 to come another Time j which he did : That they had then 
 new Books ; that the Accounts were not made up j but they 
 flievved him feveral Scraps of Paper. 
 
 Being asked. If he ever applied to the Seflions about the 
 Accounts? he laid. No. 
 
 Mr. 7'hoinas lakeland of Shadweil being examined, faid. That 
 he was Churchwarden in the Year 1731, and that he rctufed to 
 pay a Vagrant's Rate then ; but that he paid it afterwards in 
 
 1734- 
 
 Being asked. Why he refufed to pay it ? he faid, He thought 
 it an Extraordinary Thing. 
 
 Being asked. Why he paid it afterwards ? he faid, He was 
 tired wiih Trouble and Expence, and paid it to lave that : 
 That he was lummoncd to appear at SefTions feveral times : 
 That he defired to fee their Books ; but that he was told, They 
 had none j but that a Committee was appointed to ftate them ; 
 
 and
 
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 and when they were finiflicd, he fhould fee them : That Mr. 
 Higgs faid, He was fit to be in the CommiiTion, he was fo 
 pert. 
 
 Being asked, If he did not fee the Books before he paid his 
 Money ? he faid, He did ; but they gave him no Satisfadion. 
 
 Being asked, If he did not bring an Attorney with him ? he 
 faid, He did, the fame he employed to take Mr. St range's 
 Opinion, Whether he could demand to fee the Accounts ? and 
 that Mr. Strange gave it in Writing, That he might demand to 
 fee the Books ; and that all the juftices acknowledged, They 
 had no Account. But Mr. Hlggs faid, If he would come again 
 in a Month's Time, they were preparing one, and he would 
 ftiew it to hirn. 
 
 . The Petitioners then produced and read an Order out of the 
 Veftry Book of St. 'James's Clerkenwell., direfting Warning to be 
 given for holding a Veftry on 7'hurfday the 17th of June fol- 
 iowing. 
 
 Tbey then read an Order made on the faid 17th oijane^ for 
 appointing a Committee to audit and infpeft all Accounts re- 
 iating to the Parilh, and lifcewife to confider of the moft proper 
 .Ways and Means for the effedual fecuring and defending the 
 Rights and Properties of the Parilh. 
 
 They then produced a Minute Book of the Proceedings of 
 the faid Committee, and read an Article out of the fame, as 
 follows : 
 
 „ *' At a Meeting of the faid Committee on the pthDay of July 
 173<J, a Precept being read, fign'd by Mr. Hutchms the High 
 Conftable, direded to the Churchwardens and Overfeers of the 
 Poor, and Petty Conftables, to levy the Sum of Three Pounds, 
 Eleven Pence, on the Inhabitants of this Parifh, towards repair- 
 ing of Brentford Bridge j 
 
 Refolved, 
 That Mr. Rohe ( Chuichwarden ) do have the Opinion of 
 Counfel thereon." 
 
 At another Meeting of the faid Committee on the i ^th Day 
 of July following, Mr. Rohe reported. That he had had the 
 
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 Opinion of Counfel on the Bridge Rate, and the High Confta- 
 ble's Precept, and that it was illegal, and could not be main- 
 tained by the Juftices ; but in Confideration of the Bridge ap- 
 pearing very much out of Repair, it was Ordered, That the 
 (aid Bridge Rate Ihould be paid j and Mr. Piilkn was defired to 
 advance the fame. 
 
 Mr. John Roh'wfon being examined, faid, That he was pre- 
 fent at making the laft Order, and that Mr. Kobe procured it 
 to be done ; and faid. It .was reafonable, though not legal 
 that the Examinant oppofed it, and quarrelled with yix.Kohe 
 about it. 
 
 He further faid, That Mr, Southall, Churchwarden oifVhite- 
 chapely told him upon the Exchange^ and at other Places, That 
 if Mr. Robe would bring down the Petition to his Parifh, he 
 would get it figned ; That he acquainted Mr. Robe there- 
 Avith. 
 
 y ohn Dell o^ St. Sepulchres^ Blackfmith, being examined, faid, 
 That he and his Neighbours were very follicitous for the Peti- 
 tion, becaufe they had paid a great many high Rates for paC- 
 fing of Vagrants j That he heard it reported in his Parifti, that 
 a Petition was to be drawn up, but never heard by what Hand ; 
 but that mofl: of the Inhabitants, and the whole Veftry, were 
 defirous to fubfcribe it. 
 
 John Wills, Veftry Clerk of St. Sepulchres, faid, That they 
 had not paffed a Vagrant for four or five Years j but that when 
 they formerly did, they could not get their Money, particu- 
 larly Twenty-eight Shillings from Mx. Osborne:, That he at- 
 tended ten or twelve times at a Seflion before he could get an 
 Order for it ; which when he got, he received his Money from 
 Mr. Osborne. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
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 A P P E xN D I X. 
 
 NUMB. I. 
 
 A N 
 
 A C C O U N T 
 
 • O F T H E 
 
 Disburlements, made by the Juftices, 
 charged, as Mifapplications, by the 
 Petitioners. 
 
 Hicks s Hall. 
 
 May Seffinns, 
 
 1723- 
 
 Order for Sir Daniel Dolhis, Knt. late Trea- 
 
 furer of Maimed Soldiers and Mariners 
 within the Hundreds of OJfulfton^ Edmon- 
 ton and Gore^ to retain out of the faid Mo- 
 neys, on Account of repairing Hicks's 
 Hall 
 
 Woo 
 
 00 o 
 
 z-j- Kiny 171C.. Report concerning Repairs at Hicks's Hall, in ^ 
 which are contained, three Payments made 
 by Sir Daniel Dolins, Knight, amounting 
 to 676/. 175. 9 c/., and that there was 
 then due to fevcral Workmen for faid ^ 662 179 
 Repiirs the further Sum of 386/.; And 
 Order mide fo rconfirming faid Report, 
 and for the faid Sir Daniel Dol/ns, to pay 
 out of the Publick Money in his Hands 
 the Money fo due 
 
 y 
 
 [A] 
 
 1062 17 9 
 Per
 
 12 
 
 S 5 
 
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 io]u\y,i'!i?>. Per Order, Mr. Cotepwortb General Treafurer, ' 
 to pay Mrs. Frances Seymore out of the( 
 Publick iMoney, for the Repair o£ Hicks's^ 296 
 
 Half 
 
 17 Jan. 17 iS. pgf. Order, Mr. Cotefwnrtb to pay Kohert Kirbyl 
 
 Clockinaker, out of the publick Money i ^ 
 
 »7 Feb. 1728. p<7r Order, faid Mr. Cotefxorth to pay out of^ 
 
 the publick Money a Sumnot exceeding 10/. >io 
 for repairing Hicks' s Hall 3 
 
 IX May. 1 7 19. Per Order, faid Mr. Cotefworth to pay out of 
 the publick Monies a Sum not exceeding 12 /. 
 for fixing Umbrella's to the Dining Room at 
 Hicks's Hall 
 
 Ditto Pgf Order faid Mr. Cotefworth to pay out of ^ 
 
 the publick Money a Sum not exceeding f 
 Five Guineas, for cleaning and mending the( 
 Pidure of Sir Baptijl Hicks 
 
 i+May, 1750 Per Order, faid Mr. Cotefworth to pay Ebene-l 
 
 zer Bratbwaite for a Chair and Velvet Squab > 1 6 5 4-i 
 and Cufliion for Hicks's Hall j 
 
 9 Dec. 1731. Per Order, Andrew Osborne, Efqj Treafurer of) 
 
 the Vagrant Rate, to pay for ibme fmall Re- > i i o 
 pairs done ac Hicks's Hall, out of the-faid RateS 
 
 i+Feb. 1711. Per Order, John Higgs, Treafurer, to pay out' 
 of the publick Money to John li'arden. Exe- 
 cutor of Paul Harden^ Carpenter, for Repairs ( 
 done at Hicks's Hall 
 
 7 Dec. 1731. Per Order, John Higgs, Treafurer, to pay out ) 
 of the publick Money to John IVheatly^ Gla-> 
 zier, for Bufinels done at Hicks's Hall > 
 
 ioMay,i7;3.Pf'' Order, faid Higgs to be paid out of the ) 
 publick Money in his Hands, for Monies laid > 
 out about Repairs at Hicks's Hall ^ 
 
 30Aug.1733.Per Order, faid Higgs to pay 7 /. is. 6 d. to/ 
 
 James King, for five Umbrella's put up inS 7 1 
 the Dining Room at Hicks's Hail \ 
 
 iioa 173+ Per Order, faid Higgs to pay out of the pub- ) 
 lick Monies, for a Jack and Pulley at Hicks'si 
 Hall (for the Kitchen) j 9 9 
 
 Ditto Paid by Higgs for Iron Stove Grate, for theJ 
 
 Dining Room at HtckSs Hall, out of the^ij o 
 Publick .Monei.' S 
 
 19 
 
 2 9 
 
 3 io 6 
 
 87 14 lOi. 
 
 New
 
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 New 'Pvifon. 
 
 iiOa. 171;. p^y Order, Sir Henry Pemice^Knt. Treafurer* 
 for Maimed Soldiers and Mariners within the / 
 Hundreds of OJjful/iou, Edmonton ir\A Gore \ a 
 to pay thereout the Sum of 48 /. 1 3 i. 6d.\^ 
 for repairing New Prifon , j 
 
 13 6 
 
 8 Dec. 1 7 If. pef Order,Sir Henry Penrice, Knt. and Treafurer, ^ 
 
 to pay out ofthefaid Rate the Sum of 9/. C 9 14 6 
 145. 6d. over and above the Sum of48 /. T 
 13 J. for repairing New Prtfon J . 
 
 11 hhv. 1 7 2 j-. Per Order, the faid Henry Penrice, Knt. to pay 7 
 
 outof the faid Rate the further Sum of 15/.? 15 ^3 ^ 
 1 3 J. 6d. towards repairing New Prifon > 
 
 >4,Fcb. 173 1. Pfr Order, 7o^« H/^^f, Treafurer, to pay out 7 
 
 of the Publick Money, for Repairs done at >■ 15 6 o 
 New Prifon Clarkenweli j 
 
 uoa. 1731. Pfr Order, John Higgs to pay Richard Jtipp,} a j. ^ 
 Carpenter, for Repairs done at New Prifon J ^ 
 
 96 
 
 8 Dec. 1716. Per Order, Philip IViltJJyire, Efq; Treafurer of^ 
 Bridge Money, to advance and pay thereout |' 
 to Mary Offlley, Widow and Executrix of/>49 17 2 
 Jobn Offlley, Efq; late Treafurer of the Hay^ 
 Market 
 
 Profecutions. 
 
 19 Apr. 175 1. Pf?" Order, Mr. Cote fworth. General Treafurer, 
 to reimburfe Richard Norwood, a High Con- 
 ftable, for Cods of Suit in an A(5tion brought 
 againft him by the Clerk of the Market, out ^ 
 of the firft Money that Ihould come to the / ^° 
 Hands of any Treafurer 3 and Mr. Hggs is 
 fuppofed to have detain'd in his Hands out 
 of the publick Monies 28 /., Higgs being 
 Norwood's Attorney 
 
 Carry 'd over 28 o o 
 Per
 
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 Brought over 28 o o 
 
 Feb. 2+, 
 
 Per two Orders, Jobii Higgs, General Treafurer,^ 
 was to pay and retain to himfelf out of the 
 publick Monies, for defending the Profecu- 
 tion againft the aforefaid Richard Norwood, 
 arid to piay Mr. Mathews, of the Crown Of- I 
 free, his Bill out of the faid Publick Money, J 
 on the faid Profecution 
 
 48Feb.i73j. Pfj- Order, for John Higgs to retain in hts^. 
 Hands, out of the Publick Monies, for non- 
 proffing an Adlion brought againft the Hun- I 
 dred of Offuljion, for a pretended Robbery, 
 and for profecuting Mojes Peters, Clerk to 
 Clifford Ifilltam Philips, Efq; for extorting 4 s. 
 from 'Thomas Ifoodford 
 
 ij, Aug. 173+- The faid Higgi afterwards, by the Diredlion of 
 the Juftices, profecuted the faid Mofes Pe- 
 ters for the faid Extortion, in the Court of 
 Kings Bench, 'till Judgment and Execution, \ 
 and was order 'd to be paid his Bill out of 
 the Publick xMoney, which amounted to up- 
 wards of 20 /. but no Notice is taken of any 
 Bill in the Order Books 
 
 15- Apr. 1754. P^c Order, the faid Higgs to be allowed 10 /. 
 (befides the Expence of any Profecution) to 
 get in and receive Monies raifed and col)e6l- : 
 ed by virtue of a Rate made the 25th of j 
 Jpril, 1734. ^of raifing 800/. for Vagrants j 
 
 100 
 
 23 15 
 
 20 
 
 10 
 
 II 18 7 
 
 The Allowance of 25/. per Ann. from 'June'\ 
 in i I. to June 1736. to the faid H/ggs's Sa-^ 
 
 laries 
 to 
 
 out of the Publick Monies, amounts 
 
 s 
 
 Adver-
 
 [jj 
 
 AdvercifcmenLS. 
 
 >,-Apr.i73+. pif Order, John Higgs to pay out of the Pub- 
 lick Money to Ubomas H'tlkmfon, for print- 
 ing Advertifements from Day to Day con- ^ii ii o 
 cerning the Eledtion of Rcprefentatives for' 
 Middlefex 
 
 Per Order, the faid Higgs to pay Ihomas Brom- ■ 
 ley^ Cryer of Hicks's Hall, out of the pub- , 
 lick Money, for Horfe Hire and Expences, S3 30 
 delivering feveral Letters to the Juftices, to I 
 meet concerning Rcprefentatives for Middle- 
 fex 
 
 14 14 o 
 
 Robbery. 
 
 I J Jan. nif Per Order, Siftion Mitchell, Efq; to pay 17/. 
 
 19 J. g d. remaining in his Hands, on ac-^ j 
 
 count of a Robbery committed in the Hun-r^' *^ '^ 
 
 dred oiOjfulJion 
 
 [B] NUMB.
 
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 NUMB. 11. 
 
 Seflio Pads tent' Die Martis in Septi- 
 mana prox poft Feftum Epiphanise, 
 fcilicet decimo quarto Die Januarii, 
 Anno fecundo Georgii Secundi Regis, 
 
 1728. 
 
 Mtdd'xf 
 
 ^Urator pro Uno Rege fuper facr'um fuum prafentant, quod ad 
 J GeneraV SeJJion Pacts D'ni Regis tent' pro Com Midd' apud 
 Hicks-hall in St. John Street in Com pra;d' per Adjourn die Jovis^ 
 fcil' quinto die Septembr Anno Regni D'ni Georgii Secundi, nunc 
 Regis Magna Britannia, &c. fecundo, cor' Andrea Osborne, Va- 
 lentino Hilder, Roberto Midford, Armigeris, & al' Sociis fuiSy 
 yiijlic D'ni Regis, ad Pacem in Com' prad' conjerimnd' necmn 
 ad divers' Felon TranJ'gr & al' Malefaiia in eodem Cam' per- 
 petraf & terminand' qjjign &c. ordinat' fuit per eofd' Jujlic' Gf 
 cur ibidem, prout fequitur, fcil' It is Ordered by this Court, 
 That the prefent and late High Conftables of this County, herein 
 after named ; viz. William Nyfid, Gent, prefent High Conftable 
 of the City and Liberty of /^'e'/?OT/«/?frj Thomas Jones, Gent, late 
 High Conftable oi Hoi born Divifion; Wanington Grome, Gent, 
 late High Conftable within the Hundred of Gore ; and Thotnas 
 Wilkinfon, Gent, prefent High Conftable within the Hundred of 
 Elthorne in this County, do perfonally attend, and produce before 
 the Court of the next General Quarter Seffion of the Peace, to be 
 holden for this County at Hicks' s-hall in St. John Street in the 
 faid County, by Adjournment, on Tuefday the Fifteenth Day of 
 OSlober next, at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon of the fame 
 Day, a true and perfeft Account in Writing of all Sum and Sums 
 of Money by them rcfpedively received during their refpedive 
 Continuance in their Office of High Conftable, or after their or 
 
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 any of their being difcharged from the fame, for Relief of maimed 
 Soldiers and Mariners, for the Marjloaljea, Kings Bench, and 
 Hofpitals, for the paffing and relieving of Vagrants, for Repair 
 of the publick Bridges of this County, and for Repair of the 
 Houfe of Correcftion at Clerkeniaell in the fame County, or for 
 any of the Purpofes aforefaid, and of their refpedlive Payments 
 out of the fame, together with the Receipts and Vouchers to 
 them refpedlively given for fuch Payments, and alfo a true Ac- 
 count in Writing of all fuch Arrears as are yet ftanding out and 
 unreceived upon the feveral Races made for raifing of A4oneys for 
 any of the Purpofes aforefaid, from any and what Parifhes or 
 Places within their refpedive Diftridls, and of the true Chriftian 
 Names and Surnames of the Conftables or PariOi Officers, who 
 have made Default in not paying of the faid Arrears: And hereof 
 thefaid prefent and late High Conftables are not to fail, astheyand 
 every of them will anfwer the contrary at their Peril, prout per 
 Ordinem Cur' frad' liquet (^ apparet ; de quo quidetn Or dine prce- 
 di£ius Thomas Jones pojiea, fciV iindecimo die Oilobris, Anno fiipra- 
 diSiOy apud Paroch' SanBi Mgidii in Campis in Com prad' debi- 
 tam habuit Notitiam -, diBus tamen Thomas Jones, nuper de Paroch' 
 prad' in Com' prad' Gen di5lo decimo quinto die 06lobris, Anno 
 fuprad' ad horam tertiam poji merid' ejujd' diei, ac per totum diem 
 ill' apud Paroch' SanSli Sepulchri in Com' prad' iUicite & con- 
 temptuofe neglexit & recufavit perfonaliter attendere, ac producer e 
 cor' Cur' General' ^arterial' SeJJion Pads tent' pro Com' prced' 
 apud Hicks-hall prced' in Com' prcsd' per Adjournament' prcediBo 
 die Mart is, decimo quinto die OSiobr Ann fupradiSlo, ad horam 
 fuprad' verum & perfeSl' Computum in Script is de omnibus Denar 
 per ipfum recepf durante continuation in Officio fuo Capital Con- 
 Jiabular' vel poJi ejus exoneration ab eodem pro Relevamine Milit' 
 & Nautar tnahemat' , Anglice, maimed Soldiers and Mariners • 
 pro Prijm Marefchal' Band Regis, & Hofpitiis, Anglice the 
 Marfhalfea, King's Bench, and Hofpirals; pro Conveiatwn, Angl' 
 the Paffing, Gf Relevamine Vagrantium j pro Reparatione Pontium 
 publicor Com' prced', ac pro Reparation Domus Correction' apud 
 Clerkenwell in eod' Com' Jeu pro aliquo Propoitor' prced' ac de ejus 
 Solution' ex eifdcm una cum Reception & Exoneration' , A?2<rlice 
 Vouchers, ipfi dat' pro tal' Solution ac etiam verum Computum in 
 Script is de omnibus tal' Arreragiis, qual' tunc fuer a retro, Angl' 
 ftanding out, & minime recept', Anglice, unx&ce.i\e.d, J'uper fepa- 
 raV Ratas fa£i' & leva?id' pecun pro aliquo Propo'itor prced' ab 
 aliquibus & quibus Parochiis feu Locis infra ejus DiJlriSl' ac de 
 
 veris
 
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 verts 'Nominibm^ Anglice, Chriftian Names, & Cogiwntnibus 
 Conjiabular vel Offic' Parochial ' qui Defalt' fecer' iji non Soln- 
 tioji' Arrerag prad' modo Cf? form prout per Ordi?iem prced' idem 
 Thomas Jones feciffe exaB' Gf requifit" fuit, in Contemptu diSi' 
 Do?n' Regis, Leguvique fuar in malum Exetnpl' omnium alior' in 
 hu'moi caju delinquen ac contra Pacem diSi' Dom' Regis, Coron' 
 & Dignitat' Juas, &c. 
 
 yoh'es Daniel, Gen, Jur' in Cur' 
 
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 NUMB. III. 
 
 Midd' P 'yUrator pro D'm Rege fupcr facrum fuum prafentant^ quod ad 
 J Ge?ierai partial Sejj'wn' Pacn Uni Regis tejit' pro Com. 
 Midd' a pud Hie ki- ha II in St. "John Street in Csm prad' per Ad- 
 journ dieSabbati, fcil' vicefimo die "Julii, Ann Rtgni Tyni Georg 
 Secimdi, nunc Regis Magn Britami C^c. Scciindo, coram Rob^to 
 Jhornhill, Joh'e Ellis, Henco Trent "Jun, Williclmo Kingsford, 
 Arniigeris, & al' Sociis fuis, "Jujlic diSl' D'ni Regis ad Pacem 
 in Cotn prced' confervajid necnon ad divers Felon Tranfg & a I' 
 Malefta in eodem Com' perpetraf audiend' & terminatid' ajjign 
 &c. Ordinat' Juit per eoj'dem yujlic' & Cur' ibidem, prout J'eqiiitur, 
 Jcil' It is Ordered by this Court, That the prefent and late 
 High Conftables of this County, herein after named, viz. William 
 Nynd, Gent, prefent High Conftable of the City and Liberty of 
 Wejlminfler ; Thomas Jones, Gent, late High Conftable of Hoi- 
 bourn Divifion; Williaiu Fletcher, Gent, late High Conftable of 
 Finsbury Divifion ; Jofeph Pritty, Gent, prefent High Conftable 
 of the T<5U.'fr Divifion 5 Clifford JVilliam Phillips, Gent, late High 
 Conftable of the fame Divifion ; William Lonjdale, Gent, prefent 
 High Conftable of Kenfmgton Divifion; John Jones, Gent, late 
 High Conftable of the fame Divifion; JohnRumball, Gent, and 
 Henry Mackris, Gent, prefent High Conftables within the Hun- 
 dred of £^/«o«/o«; William Neiaman, Gent. znA. Richard Wil/'on, 
 Gent, prefent High Conftables within the Hundred of Gore; Jfa- 
 nington Groom, Gent, late High Conftable within the fame Hun- 
 dred; Thomas Wilkinfon, Gent, and Richard Norivood, Gent, pre- 
 fent High Conftables within the Hundred of Elthorne -, Edward 
 Room, Gent. William Murden, Gent, and John Mercer, Gent, 
 late High Conftables within the fame Hundred ; William Chan- 
 dler, Gent. zxxdiJohnHatchett, Gent, late High Conftables within 
 the Hundred of Spelthorn ; Thomas Rolfe, Gent, prefent High 
 Conftable within the fame Hundred ; and Edward Tic kner, Gent, 
 prefent High Conftable of the Hundred of IJlcworth in this County, 
 do perfonally attend, and produce before the Court of the next 
 General Seflion of the Peace to be holden for this County at 
 Hicks s-hall in St. John's Street in the faid County, by Adjourn- 
 ment, on Tiiejday the Twenty-feventh Day of Auguji next, at 
 Three of the Clock in the Afternoon of the fame Day, a true 
 
 [C] and
 
 [ »° ] 
 
 and perfedt Account in Writing of all Moneys by them refpediveiy 
 received during their refpedive Continuance in their Office of High 
 Conftable, or after their or any of their being difcharged from the 
 fame, for Relief of maimed Soldiers and Mariners, for the Mar- 
 fjalfea. King's Betich, and Hofpitals, for the Pafling and Relieving 
 of Vagrant?, for Repair of the publick Bridges of the County, 
 and for Repair of the Houfe of Correftion at Clerketiivell in the 
 fame County, or for any of the Purpoies aforefaid, and of their 
 refpective Payments out of the fame, together with the Receipts 
 and Vouchers to them refpedlively given for fuch Payments ; and 
 alfo a true Account in Writing of all fuch Arrears as are yet 
 llanding out and unreceived upon the feveral Rates made for railing 
 of Moneys for any of the Purpofes aforefaid from any and what Pa- 
 riihes or Places within their refpedtive Diftrifts, and of the true 
 Chriftian Names and Surnames of the Petty Conftables, or Parifli 
 Officers, who have made Default in not paying the faid Arrears: 
 And hereof the faid prefcnt and late High Conftables are not to 
 fail, as they and every of them will anfwer the Contrary at their 
 Peril, proiit per Or din Cur prad" liquet & apparet •■, de quo qui- 
 detn Ordine preed' Will'us LoJifdale, Joh'es Jones, JoUes Rumball, 
 Wilha Newman, Ricus Witfon, Ric'us Norwood, Ed'riis Room, 
 Will'us Murden, Joh'es Mercer, Will'us Chandler, Joh'es Hatchet, 
 & Thomas Rolfe pojlea, Jcil' decimo nono die Augujli, Ayino Jhprad' 
 apud Parocb' SanSli Sepulchri in Com' prced' habiier & quilibet ear 
 babuit dcbitam Notitiam, prced' tarnen Will'us Lonfdale, Jiiiper de 
 Paroch' de Eali)ig in Coin. Midd' Gen, Joh'es Jo?ies, fiuper de 
 Parocb' de Fulham in Com' Midd' Gen', Joh'es Rumball, niiper de 
 Paroch" de Edmonton in Com' prad' Gen', Williel' Newman, nuper 
 de Paroch' de Harrow fuper Montem in Coin prced' Ge?i, Ric'us 
 Wilfon, nuper de Paroch' de Hendcn in Com' prced' Gen, Ric'us 
 Norwood, nuper de Paroch' de Hillingdon in Com Midd' prced' 
 Gen, Ed'r'us Room, nuper de Paroch' de Hanwell in Com' prced' 
 Gen', Will'us Murden, nuper de Paroch' de Hanwell in Com' prced' 
 Gen , Joh'es Mercer, nuper de Paroch' de Hillingdon in Coni prced' 
 Gen, Will'us Chandler, nuper de Paroch' de Littleton in Cot?i prced' 
 Gen, Joh'es Hatchet, nuper de Paroch' de Bedfont in Com' freed' 
 Gen', & 'Thomas Rolfe, nuper de Paroch' de Feltham in Co?n prced' 
 Gen, diB' vicefimo feptimo die Augujli, Anno Jhprad' ad horam 
 tertiam pojl merid' ejujd' diei, ac per totum diem ill' apud Parocb' 
 ^antii Sepulchri prced' in Com' prced' illicite & contemptuofe negle- 
 xer' & recufaver' & quilibet cor' ncglexit & recujavit perfonaliter 
 attendere, ac producere cor' Cur' General' Sep'on' Facts tent" pro 
 Com' prced' apud Hicks-hall prced' in Com' prced' per Adjournamcni' 
 prad' dii7o die Mnrtis, vicefimo feptiiiw die Augujli, Ann fuprad' 
 
 ad
 
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 ad hor' fuprnd' vemw & pcrfeSl- Qcmfuium hi Scriptis de omnibia 
 Denar per ipjbs re/pectivereccpf diir-ant-^refpedUia eor Co7itinuation 
 in eor Offic' Capital' Conjlabular 'vcl pojl eor feu aliaijus eor 
 Exoneration ah eodem pro Relevanmie Militw?i ^ Naiitar mahcma£ 
 AngUce,. nixiimed Soldiers and Mariners; pro Prifoii MarcfchaV 
 Band Regis, & Hojpit' Anglice, the MarfhaUea, King's Bench, 
 and Hofpitals; pro Conveiatton Anglice, the Faffing, & Releva- 
 tuin Vagrantium ; pro Reparation Pontium puhlicor Coin prad' 
 ac pro Reparation Domus CorreBion apud C lerkcniacH' in eod' £om 
 feu pro aliquo P^postor pmd' ac de eor refpeStivis Solutionibus ex 
 eifd' una cum Receptionibus & Exoneration' Anglice, Vouchers, ipjis 
 reJpL'Slivc dat' pro tat Solution ac etiant verum Co/)ipiitu?n in 
 Scriptis de omnibus tal' Arreragiis, qual'' tunc fuer a retro, An- 
 glice, ilanding out, 6? mininie recept' , Anglice, unreceived, fuper 
 fepar Ratas faB' & levand' Pecini pro aliquo Profitor prced' ab 
 aliquibus & quibus Parochiis feu Locis infra eor reJpeSliv DiftriSl'' 
 ac de veris Nominibus, Anglice, Chrillian Names, & C\)gnomi7ii- 
 bus Subconfabular vel OJficiar Parochial' qui Defalt' feccr in 
 non Solution Arrerag prced' modo & form' prout per Ordin prced' 
 iidem Will' us Lonfdale, Joh'es Jones, Joh'es Riimhall, Jnil'us 
 Newman, Ric'us Wilfon, Ric'us Norwood^ Ed'r'us Room, IViWus 
 Murden, Job' es Mercer, Will' us Chandler, "Job' es Hatchet, Tho?nas 
 RolfefeciJJ'c exaSl' & requifit' fuer inContemptii diBi D'ni Regis, 
 Legumque fear in malum Exempl' omnium alior in hujufmodi cafu 
 delinquen ac contra Pac di£l' Dom' Reg Qoronam & Dignitatem 
 fuas, C^c. 
 
 Tef Joh'es Daniel, Ge?i' 
 
 NUMB.
 
 [ '^ ] 
 
 NUMB. IV. 
 
 An Account of Tbomas Jones y High Conftable, as 
 
 in 1711, 
 
 Charge. 
 
 1722. To Cafli received on the Rate 
 1726. To Ditto received on the Rate 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 444 13 9^ 
 426 I 8 
 
 Abated, ^o 'i 9/ 870 13 8 
 
 70 i:
 
 [ '5 ] 
 
 Treafurer of the Vagrants for OjfuIJioH Hundred, 
 and iyz6. 
 
 1 
 
 a 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 II 
 
 12 
 
 H 
 
 i6 
 
 17 
 
 I 
 
 19 
 
 20 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 24 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 27 
 28 
 29 
 
 Nov. 5,1722. 
 16, . . 
 June 14,1723. 
 
 20, . 
 July 26, . 
 
 Jan. 31, . 
 
 Apr. 13,1724 
 
 May 8, . 
 
 July 3 1, . 
 Sept. 17, . 
 Nov. 7, . 
 
 20, . 
 
 24, . 
 Feb. 10, , 
 May 12, 1725 
 July 23, . 
 Sepc. 13, . 
 Apr. 15, 1726 
 June 30, . 
 Aug. 8, . 
 
 '7> • 
 
 19. • 
 
 Jan. 7, . 
 
 Feb. 13,1727 
 Apr. 1, . 
 
 i3> 
 
 May 5, . 
 
 Ditto 
 
 June 30, , 
 
 i)i/charge. 
 
 By Cask paid j4nthony Buckmafier, lulf a Year due > 
 
 Michaelmas laft j 
 
 By ditto paid Jamts 'Rohmfon and others 
 By ditto paid Anthony Buckmafter-, half a Year due > 
 
 hady Oay 5 
 
 By ditto paid George Ho»ker, and others 
 By ditto paid A?ithony Buckmafier, one Quarter due > 
 
 Midfummer S 
 
 By ditto paid ditto, half a Year due Chriflmas 
 By ditto paid John Franklin and John Street 
 By ditto paid Anthony Buckmafier, one Quarter due 7 
 
 Lady Day laft i 
 
 By ditto paid Thomas Martin, one Quarter to Midfumm. 
 By ditto paid Jofeph Ranhey 
 
 By ditto paid Thomas Martin, 1 Qij. ending Michadm. 
 By ditto paid Ed'wdrd Craine 
 By ditto paid Oaks Bickford, and others 
 By ditto p^iid Thomas Martin, iQn. due Chrijlmas 
 By ditto paid Ditto i Qu. due Lady Day 
 By ditto paid Henry Mackris, 3 Qu. duQ Midfummer 
 By ditto paid Nicholas Ludford, r Qii. due Midfummer 
 By ditto paid Thomas Wiltnot, and other? 
 By ditto paid Samuel Sadler for Jacob IVakelin 
 By ditto paid John Godfrey and Francis Oliver 
 By ditto paid Ann the Widow of Nicholas Ludford, "> 
 
 3 Qu. due Lady Day laft S 
 
 By ditto paid Thomas Martin, i Qu. due Midfummer 
 By ditto paid Ditto, i Qu. due Michaelmas 
 By ditto paid Ditto, 1 Qu. dueChrifimas 
 By ditto paid Samuel Lee, and others 
 By ditto paid John Rumball 
 By ditto paid Zachary Clark for Thomas Martin, 
 
 I Qu. due Lady Day 
 By ditto paid Wannerton Groom 
 By ditto paidforWfHr/ilfjfitnV, at fundry Payments, 7 
 in full of all Arrears to Lady Day, 1726. 5 
 
 /. 
 
 J. ^. 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 13 3 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 Id 
 
 »9 
 
 
 
 4 
 6 
 
 9 7 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 15 
 I 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 11 6 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 X76 
 
 150 
 
 
 
 Carried over 433 17 4 
 
 D 
 
 Charge.
 
 C '4 3 
 
 Charge. 
 
 I. s. 4. 
 Brought over 870 ij 8 
 
 Articles for which Mr. Thomas Jones takes Credit 
 •without Vouchers 
 
 I. 1. J. 
 
 Sep.io, tj 11. By Ciiii ■paii Hmry Mackr'is » ' m loj- o o 
 
 Mij If, I yi6, Ej ditto ■piid Thomas Cotingvood • •■»«. i 10 o 
 
 Sep. 13, . . By ditto paid leveral Petty Conftables — ■ ■ ■ lo o 
 
 /. s. i. 
 
 By ditto paid ■» 4 14 6 
 
 Out of which paid but z 19 o 
 
 « ■ I i^ <S 
 
 0£t.iQ, 1718. By ditto paid T^0;;3<(jGr<'^^ m.^ , i 18 4 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 By ditto paid Thomns Howard ^^-=-. —»« 010 
 
 By ditto paid John HwnMl hi.. oh o 
 
 Iji 4 10 
 
 ': \
 
 [ '5 ] 
 
 Difck 
 
 30 
 
 Aug 
 
 +.«7 
 
 »7 
 
 3» 
 
 |scp. 
 
 
 
 3* 
 
 Nov 
 
 J- 
 
 
 33 
 
 
 9. 
 
 
 34 
 
 
 41, 
 
 
 3f 
 
 Dec. 
 
 8. 
 
 
 3<5 
 
 ]an. 
 
 Ji. . 
 
 
 37 
 
 May 
 
 if.ij 
 
 za 
 
 3» 
 ^9 
 
 Sf. 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 Feb. 
 
 «4, 
 
 
 •^/•or. 
 
 Brought over 
 By Cath paid Zachary Clark tor Kfsry Mackris, one ? 
 Quarter due, Midfummer $ 
 
 By ditto paid ditto for ditto - ■ ■ — - ' ■ » 
 
 By ditto paid ditto for ditto in full r:o Lin^Dny laft 
 By ditto paid Thomas Martin, one Quarter, due Mi- 
 chaelmas laft 
 By ditto paid Samuel Sadler for John Laws 
 By ditto paid Thomas Cogart, (^ al. 
 
 'I 
 
 By ditto paid Zachary Clark for Henry Maekris, one halt 
 ■ ' »eln 
 
 I 
 
 4JJ 
 10 
 10 
 4° 
 10 
 
 9 
 
 Year due Michaelmas 
 By ditto paid Ditto for Thomas Martin 
 By ditto paid Sarah the Widow of Thomas Clayton deceafed 
 Ry ditto ^aid Zachary Clank, i'ofr Anthony fiuckmafter 
 By ditto paid Ditto tor Hemy Maekris, by Order of Court 
 By ditto paid William Bavin, ^ al. ' ■> 
 
 The following Sums were in the lame Order, and do 
 not appear to be paid, w*. 
 
 Thomas Herbert 
 Philip Armftrong 
 Thomas Howard 
 ]ohn Rumbald 
 jofeph^Osbom 
 
 /. 
 
 s. 
 
 q 6 
 
 o ? 
 o 10 
 
 O t I 
 
 J. 
 6 
 6 
 o 
 o 
 6 
 
 I \6 6 
 
 17 
 
 1 
 
 4- 
 
 10 
 
 3 
 10 
 
 a 
 
 z 
 "5 
 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 .. o 
 
 ByCafh paid Sir D<wie/Do/wj, General Treafurer, with ? 
 
 which Sir Daniel chargeth himfeif in his Account 5 
 By fundry Sums charged in his Account as paid, for ? 
 
 which no Vouchers appear ^ 
 
 5-91 If 10 
 
 4. 10 
 
 8(Si I 
 
 Due to Ballance from Mr. Jones 9 1 z 
 
 6 
 
 z 
 
 tTM 
 
 870 ij 8 
 
 oT .*1T I 
 
 NUMB.
 
 [ ,6] 
 
 NUMB. V. 
 
 Va grants 
 Thomas Jones^ Treafurer for the Hundreds 
 
 Charge. 
 
 I. s. d. 
 1722, To the Proportion of a Rate for 800/. for pafling of> 
 
 Vagrants in the County of Middlefex, on the abevc r 743 J o 
 Three Hundreds made in October Seffions . •^ ; 
 
 1725'. To the Proportion of a Rate for 800/. for the fame Serviced ._ 
 
 and Hundreds made in Jpril Seffions J -—-___ 
 
 1 485 2 o 
 
 Note, 
 
 This Account is the bed that can be given, and 
 was made up from Mr. Jonei'% Account and 
 Vouchers, by which there appears to be 151 /. 
 4i. 10 d. not accounted for, befides the Bal- 
 lan* of j> /, I z i. xd. 
 
 NUMB. VI. 
 
 William Murden, Gentleman, Treafurer for the 
 
 Charg,0. 
 
 I. s. i. 
 
 1722. To the Proportion of a Rate for 800 /. for pafllng of Vagrants ^ 
 
 in the County of Middefex, on the above Three Hundreds, > 55190 
 made in October Seffions ) 
 
 1715. To the Proportion of a Rate for 800/. for the fame Service? ,^ ,„ „ 
 and Hundreds made in jipil Seffions S ' 
 
 113 tS o 
 
 tlote: This is the beft Account that can be given, and was made 
 up from Mr. Murden's Account and Vouchers, which he 
 deUver'd to the Committee, but died very foon after.
 
 t "7] 
 
 Account. 
 
 ot Ojfuljlon^ Edmonton and Gore. 
 
 Difcharge. 
 
 1 712. By Deficiencies on the Rate, being the Proportion for the City 
 and Liberty of PVeflimtifter, who pafs their own Va- 
 grants, as having a feparate Treafurer ^ 
 
 By ditto, for the '/oti'o- Liberty on the like Account 5 ._ . 
 
 1116. By ditto on the fecond Rate for the City oi IP'efiminfter j^^ 6 1 1 
 
 ■By ditto for the ZoWfr Liberty 5 U 
 
 By Disburfennents by Mr. Jotzes, for which 1 /. 5. d. 
 proper Vouche s are in the Treafurer 's C 
 Hands, as/er his Account made upfrom^ ''' '^ '° 
 them J 
 
 By a further Sum, charged in his Account to 
 have been paid away, for which no Vouch- 
 ers appear , for which Reafon, and for his 
 not paying the reft of the Money in hisf '' '^ ^° 
 Hands, his Account remain'd unpafled, 
 and he was indifled 
 
 By '.afh paid Sir Dame' Tio'im, General 1 
 
 County Treafurer, with which Sir 2)^w/er 158 o 10 
 chargeth himlelf in his Account 3 
 
 By Arrears uncollefled of the faid Rates on the above Three I 
 Hundreds 5 
 
 Due to Balance from Mr. Jonei 
 
 272 6 II 
 
 12 I 
 I 
 I 
 
 ■ %6i I 
 59 ,10 
 
 4 
 
 I47(J 9 
 9 12 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 1485 z 
 
 
 
 Hundreds of Elthorne^ Spehhorne and IJleworth. 
 
 D'lfcharge, 
 
 I. s. d. 
 By fundry Sums paid for paffing Vagrants, as /er his Account? , 
 
 and Vouchers, in the Clerk of thePciice's Hands 5 
 
 By Deficiencies at the Time of his Death 57 15 i 
 
 By Cafli paid Mr. 'Parker by Order, for which no Voucher pro i 
 
 duced 
 
 5 5 
 
 15 18 o 
 
 [ P:] ^ NUMB.
 
 [ >8 ] 
 
 NUMB. VII. 
 
 Vagrants 
 
 William Coatfworthy Efcj; 
 
 Charge. ' 
 
 /. s. d. 
 1729. To a Rate for pafling Vagrants in the County ) 
 
 oi Middle fcx, by Order of Seffions, the 9th > 800 o o 
 ot OClober \ 
 
 Note. 
 
 This Account is made up from a Copy of Mr. Coatf- 
 wortb's Account, by Mr. Barnard, on Behalf of 
 Mr. Coatfworth's Executors.
 
 [ '?] 
 
 Account. 
 
 County Treafurer. 
 
 Difcharge. 
 
 172^. By Deficiencies on the Rate, being the Propor- 
 tion for the City and Liberty of H^efimhifier^ 
 who pafs their own Vagrants, as having a fe- 
 parate Treafurer 
 
 By Ditto for the T'ower^ on the like Account 512 
 
 By Arrears uncolledted of the faid Rate, or in the ^ 
 Hands oiMx.Coatfivorth^ not brought to -Ac-f , 
 count, it appearing by a Book wrote in his Q '* 
 
 own Hand, that he received but 185/. 7^. >] d.j 
 
 By Disburfements by him, as appears in the faid? ^ 
 
 Book J ' 
 
 722 9 7 
 
 By Bailance due from Mr. Coatfworth, at the ■ 
 Time of his Death, befides what has ap-( 
 peared to the Committee, to have bienT ^ 
 
 paid him by Richard IVeJtcn^ or others 
 
 800 
 
 Num.
 
 . .a 
 
 NUMB. VIII. 
 
 Vagrants Account in 17 p. 
 
 Charge. 
 
 \ I. s. d. 
 
 1731. Toa Rate for .i 800 00 
 
 To Ca(h paid the Surveyors for their Trouble in ^ 
 attending feveral Days difallowed, tho' charged > 2 20 
 in his Disburfenjent • \^ 
 
 802 2 o 
 
 NUMB. IX. 
 
 An Accounc of the Arrears of the Vagrant 
 
 Charge, 
 
 1731. To fundry Sums paid into the Hands of Mr.^ 
 John lligg^-y General Treafurer, being Part of 
 the Arrear of 336 /. 14. j. 2 d. mentioned in Mr. I , 
 
 Cotefwortys Account, on the Rate 1729. be- \ ^ 
 
 tween the loth of January 1731, and the 22d 
 of December^ ^li^. 
 
 An Account of the Arrears of the Vagrant 
 
 NUMB. X. 
 
 Charge. 
 
 1733. To Ballance due on his Account of the Arrears? , o 
 
 in 1729. 3 ^ 
 
 To Ballance received oi /Indrew Osborne, Efq; on7 
 
 the Rate 173 1. 3 '* ^ 
 
 To Cafh received of (everal High Conftables, be- 7 
 
 ing Part of the Arrear of 4'-3 / i s.6 d. of the> 71 124 
 Rate 173 1, in Mr. Osborne's Account • 
 
 156 60 
 Ballance due to Mr. H'irgs 4 *9 s 
 
 161 s 2
 
 [" ] 
 
 Andrets) Osborne^ Efqj Treafurer. 
 
 Difcharge. 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 By Arrears not collefted, as appears bvS^*'^ o ni 
 
 hisAccount ' FF y^ 5 12 ,^473 ^ g 
 
 By fundry Disburlements, as enter'd in his Account 287 1 6 6 
 
 760 18 o 
 By Ballance of this Account paid to Mr. HivvsJ 
 
 Dec. 18. 1733. S 41 4 o 
 
 802 2 O 
 
 Rate in 1719. ^o^w -f^^igig:^, General Treafurci. 
 
 Dijcbarge. 
 
 By fundry Disburfements by him ■ ■ 58 16 9 
 
 Due to Ballance . 43 y 8 
 
 102 6 5 
 
 Rate in 1731. paid to Mr. Higgs, General Treafurer, 
 
 Difcharge. 
 
 By fundry Disburfements between the 14th of May^\ 
 
 1733. and the 3 1 fl of January y 1 7 3 4, as by his Account j ^ * 
 
 " [F] ^n
 
 [ 
 
 21 
 
 jin Extract of the Vugrant Accotints. 
 
 Rates. 
 <)' Air.io 1711 Soo 
 ^ 1716 8oOi 
 
 t >7-9 800J 
 
 ^ '73' 800V 
 
 I '734 800, 
 
 OvL-rpaid Ly Mr. Higgs 
 
 I. s. J. 
 
 4000 o o 
 
 4 19 z 
 
 ,X,i^ .U'J 
 
 saqqs aB Jj-JI>jiIoj 
 
 ApplieJ to the Scrvige toy -vrhieh it was raifcd .... 
 
 C l^tftminfitr . - , ~ I j6l 14 7 
 
 Deficiencies on the five Rates, iiiz.. - - ^ Tower - - . 28 o ^ 
 
 I County - t - 997 z 4 
 
 BoTrtiw'ifi^ for the Repairs of Hicks' s-Hall - . ,. ,. . 
 
 Loll hy Ut. Jones, Or in his.HandS -'; 1(\VC'-l. '-'tJ -O ^'^^-'-i^ , 
 
 Loft by 'Mr. Coar/icorf^'s dying infolvent - - < - i ."y; 10 j- 
 
 R.eiJiaJniia.Mr. Osbom'i hands — — — '» 
 
 As more fully appears by the underwritten Particulars. 
 
 1386 17 4 
 
 J38 o 10 
 
 iiS 7 J- 
 
 ; 8 6 
 
 4004 19 2 
 
 VL 
 
 VIL 
 
 VIIL 
 
 IX. 
 
 X. 
 
 
 Applied. 
 
 
 
 /. 
 
 J. 
 
 </. 
 
 1 
 
 S9} 
 
 •f. 
 
 10 
 
 f« 
 
 ''^' 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 I<37 
 
 te 
 
 s 
 
 
 182 
 
 <i 
 
 
 
 
 f8 
 
 16 
 
 9 
 
 
 161 
 
 f 
 
 2 
 
 
 12^8 
 
 5- 
 
 . 
 
 Weftminfter 
 
 Tower 
 
 Deficiency. 
 
 Deficiency. 
 
 /. s. 
 
 d. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 -272 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 f 42 I 
 
 172 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 S i» ' 
 
 27i 6 
 
 II 
 
 S 12 I 
 
 272 6 
 
 I' 
 
 S 12 1 
 
 272 6 
 
 1 1 
 
 f 12 I 
 
 i.J^J 14 
 
 7 
 
 28 y 
 
 County 
 
 Arrears 
 
 Suras bor- 
 
 Sums 
 
 Remains. 
 
 Deficiency. 
 
 received. 
 
 rowed. 
 
 loft. 
 
 
 /. s. d 
 
 /. s. d 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 /. s. d 
 
 i, t. d. 
 
 
 
 Tj8 10 
 
 146 17 a* 
 
 ..aiyd 
 
 S9 >o 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 n '? > 
 
 
 
 
 
 J3<) 14 2 
 
 
 
 77 «o J- 
 
 
 I9J- 2 6 
 
 102 6 f 
 
 
 
 J 8 6 
 
 5-22 I 
 
 71 12 4 
 
 
 
 
 1,171 I 1 
 
 '73 18 9 
 
 138 10 
 
 218 7 f 
 
 J 8 5 
 
 173 18 9 
 
 997 1 4 
 
 NUMB.
 
 NUMB. XL 
 
 Marfhalfea, King's-Bench, and Hofpitah 
 Charge. Thomas Jones, 
 
 d. I. 
 
 Sept. f. 1711. To Cafh receiv'd of Mr. John Mills Treafurer for^ 
 Ojfulflon, Edmonton, Gore, from the Year 1707/ 
 exclulive, to the Year 17 18 inclufive, being \ 170 o o 
 eleven Years the Baliance of his Account purfu-f 
 ant to an Order dated the 17th oi fiily 17x1 J 
 Jan. 10. To ditto of Nath. Chandler Treafurer for the ? „ 
 
 Years 1719, 1710 and 1711 j 
 
 17x1. To a Rate made in £a/?<r Scflions - 30 46 
 
 187 17 & 
 
 ■■ ■ ■ • 30 4 <$ 
 
 ■ - — 30 4 d 
 
 — — ■ . 31 10 o 
 
 ■ ■ ' < ■ ■ ■ 31 10 o 
 
 439 1 1 o 
 
 Charge. James Sharplefs, 
 
 1718. To a Rate in E^y??)- Seflions ' 1 ■ 31 10 o 
 
 17Z9. To ditto ■ ■ . 31 lo 9 
 
 1750. To ditto ■ I — — — ■ 31 lo o 
 
 1713. 
 
 To ditto 
 
 1714. 
 
 To ditto 
 
 '7ir 
 
 To ditto 
 
 1716. 
 
 To ditto 
 
 1717. 
 
 To ditto 
 
 94 10 o 
 
 Charge. Alexander Clarke, 
 
 1731. To a Rate in E»/?er Seffions — »'« — — 31 100 
 
 1731. To ditto ■■ » ■ ^— 31 10 o 
 
 63 00 
 
 Charge. Mr. John Higgs, 
 
 J73J. To Cafl) received of Mr. .^^ar^/f/j the Baliance of his Account 33 o 10 
 To dit. of fundry High Conftables, being Arrears of former Rates I J' 7 i 
 Todit.of./^/f;i;.C/rtrAf the Baliance of his Account at 3 Payments 45 6 4 
 
 ?+ '4 J
 
 [ M ] 
 
 for Offulfton, Edmonton and Gore. 
 
 ^' High Conjlahk^ ^reafarer. Difcharge. 
 
 ' I. t. <i. 
 
 t^\X. By CaOi paid to Sir Z>fl«7f/ Do//W by Order of F?^. Scflions ? 
 
 1,7 li, being borrowed for the Repairs of Kir^j's Hall C *^^ '7 4 
 
 By Deficiencies on the Rate in 171/ . ^. ,i 3 
 
 By ditto in 1716 ..i. . . . - 636 
 
 197 I J 6 
 Due to Ballance in Mr. jfflsw's Hands 141 17 6 
 
 439 II e 
 
 High Conflabky Treaftirer. Difcharge* 
 
 '7B<?' B(y Cafli received of feveral High Conftables, and paid by? 
 
 him to Mr. Higgt at three Payments C 3? " '* 
 
 By Deficiencies on the three Rates . ' ■ ■ ___ di 9 a 
 
 94 10 9 
 
 Bi^Confiabk, Treafur^r. Difcharge. 
 
 " ■''i73». By Cafti receiv'd of feveral High Conftables, and by him > 
 
 paid into Mr. Hig^s the General Trealurer's Hands at four > 46 «J 4 
 Payments . , \ 
 
 By Deficiencies on the two Rates, or in Mr. C/«rJtf's Hands 16 ij 8 
 
 ^ ' -M-r 
 
 Treaftirer. - Difcharge. 
 
 * US- By Disburfcments for Exhibition Money, a Book, ej-c. per Mr. ? 
 
 g. . , rx T «W's Account J 9 18 o 
 
 ,a JVi I J 'iBy Calh remaining in Mr. HJf^i's Hands _— 84 i (J 5 
 
 In Mr. Coatfaorth'i Hands at the Time of'^ i. ^. d. L. 94 14 ; 
 
 his Death, by him receiv'd of Rif/^W / __« 
 
 H'illon, the Ballance of his Accounts for r + '^ ♦ 
 the Years 17x7 and 1719 J
 
 1x6} 
 
 Jn 'E.\r ^KCt of the Account of Marftialfca, King's- Bench, 
 and Hoffitals for Oflulllon Hundred^ i^c. 
 
 Exhibition Money, ^c. — - - — 
 
 Deficiencies on the Rates — — - 
 Borrowed tor Repairs of Hicki's-Hall 
 
 Loft by Mr. yones, or in his hands - 
 Loft by Mr. CoMfaorth's dying infolvent 
 Rcinaius unapplied • 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 — — 9 i8 .o 
 
 — ^— 69 1 6 7 
 
 i8j- 17 + 
 
 /. s. J. 
 
 4 •$• 4i 
 
 - . 84 16 3 
 
 As more fully appears by the underwritten Particulars. 
 
 S91 
 
 
 Rates. 
 
 Arrears. 
 
 Arrears 
 Collcaed. 
 
 Exhibition 
 Money. 
 
 Sums 
 borrowed. 
 
 Sums loft. 
 
 Remains. 
 
 ti*. XL 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 /. s. 
 
 /. /. d. I. s. d. 
 
 
 Anno 172130 4 6 
 
 
 
 
 285- 17 4 
 
 
 1723130 4 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1724130 4 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1725-30 4 <S 
 
 5-128 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 172631 10 
 
 6 3 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 >7V' 
 
 3 1 10 
 
 
 2 7 8 
 
 
 
 141 17 
 
 
 17*8 
 
 31 .0 > 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1729 
 
 31 .0 S 
 
 6\ 92 
 
 2 7 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 1730 
 
 3, .0 s 
 
 
 
 
 ' 
 
 4 «f ♦ 
 
 
 »73i 
 
 ;;;:} 
 
 16 13 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 »7Ji 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 »7J? 
 
 
 
 'i- 7 « 
 
 
 
 
 
 ^»734 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 '7Bf 
 
 
 
 
 9 i8 
 
 
 
 
 >73<5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 84 16 J 
 
 
 341 8 
 
 89 19 
 20 1 j- 
 
 20 1 j- 
 
 9 18 
 
 285- 17 4 
 
 146 11 10 
 
 84 16 J 
 
 .> ^ 1 -^ ta 
 
 
 
 '• "•!■ -^ •- 
 
 
 I 69 16 7 
 
 ,, Oi '^'- "■"' "-^^ •■ • 
 
 _' /. s. d. 
 
 1722 Balance in the Treafurer's hands --.-ij-j- 13 
 
 Rates 
 
 
 ... _ 
 
 
 
 4k*jr K \* \g 
 
 
 " 
 
 591 « 
 
 NUMB. 
 
 «\-v
 
 
 ^ 
 
 3 
 
 
 ?I 
 
 
 n^q 

 
 NUMB. XII. 
 
 Marflialfea, King's Bench ajid Hofphahfor 
 Charge. William Mtirden 
 
 1722. To a Rate made in Eajier Seflions for 
 
 1723. To ditto - - 
 
 1724. To ditto - - - 
 
 1725. To ditto - - - . - 
 
 1726. To ditto - - - - - - 
 
 /. J. d. 
 
 13 8 8 
 
 IS 8 8 
 
 13 8 8 
 
 13 8 8 
 
 13 8 8 
 
 67 3 4 
 
 1 727. To a Rate made in Eajier Seflions for 
 
 1728. To ditto - - - - 
 
 7%omas WtMnfin 
 
 13 8 8 
 - 13 8 8 
 
 26 17 4 
 
 1 73 1. To a Rate made in Eapr Seflions for 
 
 1732. To ditto - - - - - 
 
 John ^aine 
 
 13 8 8 
 13 8 8 
 
 26 17 4 
 
 Mr. 'John Uiggs 
 
 1732. To Cafh paid into his Hands by Mr. 7o,6« P^;«?,7 
 
 being the Balance of his Accounts - - S ^ 
 
 being 
 1734. To ditt<> paid him by IVilliam Ntcholls High Con- 
 
 ftabie of Spehborne, part of the Deficiencies of ^ 3 18 
 173 I and 1732 
 
 I 
 
 8
 
 1^9 J 
 
 Elchoine, Spelthorne, and Jfleworth. 
 
 Gent. Treafurer. Dif charge. 
 
 h s. d. 
 1722. By Cafh paid Sir Daniel Dotins, by Mr. Murden^ as"? 
 
 per Sir Daniel Dolins's Account - - j ^° ° ° 
 1726. By ditto paid ditto by Mr. Nine, one of the High? 
 
 ConttMeSy as per ditto - - -I - .y J^o o o 
 
 By Deficiencies on the Five Rates - -' - ^7 3 4 
 
 67 3 4 
 
 Gent. Treafurer. 
 
 1728, By Calh in 7'hmas Wilkinfon's Hands, as appears j 
 
 by a Letter dated 7th ^a«e 1728. to Have been> 350 
 received by him - - - . - 3 
 
 By Deficiencies on the two Rates - - - 2$ 12 4 
 
 26 17 4 
 
 Gent. Treafurer. 
 
 1732. By Cafli paid to Mr. }'oI'mH/5^j General Treafurer 43a 
 By Deficiencies on the Two Rates - - r 22 14 2 
 
 26 17 4 
 
 General Treafurer. 
 
 1734. ByCafh reniaining in Mr. Higgs's Hands as per his") g 
 Account - - - - i -J 
 
 2 
 
 [h3 m
 
 C j°3 
 
 ^« Extract of the Account o/" Marflialfea, King's- 
 Bench, and Hofpitalsy for Elthorne Hundred^ &c. 
 
 Deficiencies » 
 
 Borrowed 
 tt.emains Unapplied 
 
 
 /. J. d. 
 
 
 j-9 II lo 
 
 
 fO o O 
 
 1162 
 
 120 18 
 
 As more fully appears by the Under- written Particulars; 
 
 No XII. 
 
 Anno 1712 
 
 172+ 
 i7»|- 
 17*5 
 1727 
 1728 
 1729 
 1730 
 »7J» 
 
 I7J2 
 
 •7J3 
 »7J4 
 I73J- 
 1736 
 
 Rates. 
 
 /. 
 
 ^. 
 
 </. 
 
 n 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 M 
 
 8 
 
 8j 
 
 13 
 
 8 
 
 H 
 
 M 
 
 8 
 
 s' 
 
 M 
 
 8 
 
 8. 
 
 M 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 «3 
 
 8 
 
 8. 
 
 «; 
 
 8 
 
 8- 
 
 •3 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 I20 18 O 
 
 Arrears not 
 Colleaea. 
 
 •7 3 4- 
 
 13 12 4 
 
 22 14 
 
 Arrears 
 CoUefted 
 
 /. !. d. 
 
 5-9 II 10 
 
 Sums j 
 Borrowed. Remains. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 20 o o 
 
 30 o o 
 
 6j 9 1° 3 >^ 
 
 3 18 o 
 
 ol fO 
 
 /. .. ^. 
 
 3 J- o 
 
 a X ; 
 
 ^ V- 
 
 NUMB.
 
 ,t 3- J 
 
 NUMB. XIII. 
 
 'The Accounts of the fever al Treajuresfor maimed Soldiers 
 
 and Gove from the Tear 17 ^^j to 
 
 Charge. Sir Daniel Doliusj 
 
 I. s. d. 
 1 722. To Cafh received by Sir Daniel Dolins, Treafiirer, ; 
 
 for the Year 1722, the Balance o£ Sir Jfaac'^ 391 18 2 
 Dillard's Account for the Year 1721. J 
 
 To a Rate for the Year 1722. - - - 85 16 o 
 
 To the Arrears of the faid Rate uncolleded — 160 
 
 479 ° 2 
 
 Sir yoh/i Gonfjn^ 
 
 1 723. To the Balance of Sir Ban. Dolins's Account paid > 2 ? 4. '> 
 
 to Sir John Gonfon the fucseeding Treafurer i 35 4- 
 
 To Rate for the Year 1723 - - - - 85 16 o 
 
 To the Arrears of the faid Rate uncolleded 160 
 
 122 
 
 Sir Henty Eatcman^ 
 
 \ 724. To the Balance of Sir John Gonfon s Account paid } g 
 to Sir Henry Batenian the fucceeding Treafurer 5 
 
 S 2 
 
 To a Rate for the Year 1724. - - . 85 16 
 
 To the Arrears of the faid Rate uncolleded - 16 
 
 
 Sir Henry Pern tee,. 
 
 1725. To the Balance of Sir Henry Batemans Accounts 
 
 paid to Sir Henry Penrice the fucceeding Trea- ^ 130 16 2 
 furcr -- - -- --J 
 
 ToaRatefor the Year 1725. - - - - 85 16 o 
 
 To the Arrears of the faid Rate uncollected 160 
 
 217 18 2
 
 [35 ] 
 
 ■r.**/ 
 
 and Mariners for the Hundreds o/Oflulfton, Edmonton, 
 the Tear \7]6^ both incluji've. 
 
 Treafurer. Difcharge. 
 
 1722. By Cafh paid to feveral maimed Soldiers and Mari-i 
 
 ners, as per Account pafTed by the Committee i* 40 
 of Accounts -~ — \ 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 2 10 
 
 By ditto paid the Clerk for collefting the Money"? 
 
 and paying the Penfions as ufual — — J 
 By the Arrears of the Rate — — — 16 
 
 By Cafli retained in the Accomptants Hands, being > 
 
 borrowed for and towards the Repairs of theC 
 
 Scffions-Houfe of Hicks'i'Hall by Order of S^^- ^ ^°° ° 
 
 fions, May zoy 1723, — — — 
 
 443 16 o 
 Due to Ballance 35 4 ^ 
 
 479 o 2 
 
 Treafurer. 
 
 1723. By CaQi paid to feveral maimed Soldiers and? 
 
 Mariners, as per Account ftated - - 3 '^ ^ ° 
 
 By ditto paid the Clerk as ufual - - - 2100 
 
 By the Arrears of the Rate - - - - 160 
 
 37 I o 
 Due to Balance 85 5 2 
 
 122 6 2 
 
 Treafurer. 
 
 1724. By Ca(h paid to feveral maimed Soldiers and Ma 
 
 riners, as per Account pafled - - - 
 By ditto paid the Clerk, as ufual - - - 210 
 
 By the Arrear of the Rate - . - - i 6 
 
 41 It o 
 
 Due to Balance 130 i6_2 
 
 172 7 2 
 
 il 15 o 
 
 o 
 o 
 
 Treafurer. 
 
 1725. By Cafh paid to feveral maimed Soldiers and Ma-^ 
 
 riners, as per Account pafled - - - 3 " 
 By ditto paid the Clerk, as ufual - _ - 
 By ditto paid by Order of Seffions for the Repair » 
 of New-Prifon fhc'mg borrowed, and to be repaid i 
 By the Arrears of the Rate , - - - 1 
 
 2 10 
 
 73 II 
 
 o 
 
 106 17 6 
 Due to Balance in 00 8 
 
 217 18 _ 2 
 C I ] Charge.
 
 C 34 ] 
 
 Charge. Nicholds Jtifftys^ 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 1726. To the Balance of Sir Henry Eatemans Account } 
 
 Tp^}d to Nicholas Jeffreys, Efqi the lucceeding ^ iii o 8 
 Treafurer - - - - ^ 
 
 To fundry Sums received in Part of a Rate for") 
 
 the Year 1726. of the High Conftablc - > ^z 13 7 
 
 To the Arrears of the laid Rate uncolleded - 25 14 5 
 
 199 8 8 
 
 7komi.n Ihjyer 
 
 1727. To the Balance of Mr. 5'fjf'"«'/s Account, paid to/ 
 
 T'bomas Thayer, Efq; Succeeding Treafurer j ^43 4 3 
 To Cafti received of leveral High Conftables, in ) 
 
 Part of a Rate for the Year 1727. - J 32 3 o 
 
 To the Arrears of the faid Rate - - 56 5 o 
 
 To Cafh received of JoJJona IValker, Keeper of"\ 
 New Prifcn, per Order of Seffions dated the [ 
 2d Day oi March, in Part of 73 /. 1 1 s. 6 d.\ 
 borrowed for the Repairs of Nc-jd Prtfon, by 
 Order of Seffions dated the faid 2d Day of 
 March - - - - . - 
 
 / 30 
 
 261 12 3 
 
 Barwell Sm'nh^ 
 
 X728. To the Balance of Mr. 'Thayer & Account, paid to ^ 
 
 £«>-Wf// 5'?H;?i&, Efqifucceeding Treafurer ^ ^75 2 3 
 
 To Cafh received of feveral High Conftables, in > 
 Part of a Rate for the Year 1728 - - j 75 10 8 
 
 To the Arrears of the laid Rate 
 
 To Arrears of the Rate y/««o 1726, received of? 
 
 12 II 
 II 
 
 Mr. Jones of Kenfington Divifion - -* ^ * 5 4 
 
 274 15 7 
 
 Robert Hlndsy 
 
 1729. To the Balance of Barwell Smith, Efqj his Ac-^? 
 
 count paid to Robert Hnide^ Eiq; lucceedingS 233 14 3 
 Treafurer - -.-... ^ 
 
 To Cafh received of feveral High Conftables in 7 00' 
 
 Part of a Rate for the Year 1729. - - j" 58 18 8 
 
 To the Arrears of the faid Rate - - - - . 29 9 4 
 
 322 2 3
 
 f 35 ] 
 Elq;. Trcalurer. Dijcharge. 
 
 1726,^ By Cafh paid feveral maimed Soldiers and Mari-? 
 Tiers, a.spsr Account Hated - -5" 
 
 ^^ ^ By ditto-piid. the Clerk, as ulual 
 By the Arrears of the Rate 
 
 Due to Balance 
 
 Efq- Treafurer. 
 
 1727. By Cafh paid feveral maimed Soldiers and Mari-i 
 
 ners, as per Account paflTed - - / '^7 15 o 
 
 By ditto paid the Clerk, as uiiial - - - 2 lo o 
 
 /. 
 
 i. 
 
 d. 
 
 ' 28 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 2J 
 
 14 
 
 ■ S 
 
 56 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 143 
 
 4 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 199 
 
 8 
 
 By the Arrears of the Rate - - " " 56 5 
 
 o 
 
 86 10 o 
 Due to Balance 1 75 23 
 
 261 12 3 
 
 Efq; Treafurer. . 
 
 XY28. By Cafh paidieveral maimed Soldiers and Mari-^ 
 ners, as per Account ftated - - - ^ 
 By ditto paid to the Clerk, as ufual - - " 
 By the Arrears of the Rate - " - 
 
 26 a 
 
 2 10 
 12 II 
 
 o 
 
 41 I 4 
 Due to Ballance 233 14 3 
 
 274 15 7 
 
 Efq; TVeafurer. 
 
 1729. By Cafh paid (everal marmed Soldiers and Mari-l 
 nets, as per Account pafled - - - - j 
 By ditto paid the Clerk, as ufual 
 By the Arrears of the Rate - . _ 
 
 Due to Ballance 
 
 : 30 
 
 lo 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 9 
 
 4 
 
 62 
 
 9 
 
 4 
 
 259 
 
 12 
 
 II 
 
 322 
 
 2 
 
 3
 
 % 
 
 [ 5^ ] 
 
 Charge, Thomas M'tlmr^ 
 
 I. s. d. 
 1730. To the Balance of Mr. Hinde's Account, paid to") 
 
 Thomas Miliier, Efq; fucceeding Treafurer S ^^ ' 
 
 To Ca(h receiv'd of feveral High Conftables, inl j. 
 
 Part of the Rate for the Year 1730. - J 44 ^2 » 
 
 To Arrears of the faid Rate - - - 43 15 4 
 
 348 O II 
 
 I73I' 
 
 7%omas 'J'lndar^ 
 
 To the Balance of Mr. Mihiers Account, paid to7 ,„ 
 
 <Thomas Pindar, Efq; fucceeding Treafurer J ^ ^S 1 
 
 To Cafli received in Part of the AJrear on the? 
 Rate 1730. - - - - i 4 
 
 To c//Y/o received of feveral High Conftables, in? „ 
 
 Part of a Rate for the Year 1731. - i ^* 
 
 To Arrears of the faid Rate - - 37 5 4 
 
 365 8 3 
 
 Thomas Pindar ^ 
 
 1732. To Balance ofhis Account for the Year 1751. 292 12 11 
 
 To Cafli received in Part of the Arrears on the 7 
 
 faid Rate 1731. - - - - S ^ 
 
 To ditto received of feveral High Conftables, in? ^^ ,0 
 
 Part of the Rate 1732. - - - ^ 02 >» * 
 
 To Arrears of the faid Rate - - - 25 9 10 
 
 387 
 
 Jacob Harvetfy 
 
 1733' Tq Balance of Mr. Pindar's Account paid to7 
 
 facob Harvey, Efq, fucceeding Treafurer - J 3 3 3 5
 
 C:J7] 
 
 Efqj Treafurer, Dtfchar^e. 
 
 /. s. dl 
 
 1730. By Cafh paid (everal maimpd Soldiers ^nd Mari-7 
 
 '». ners, as j)er Account ftated - - _y 3J p o 
 
 By rf/«c» paid the Clerk, as ufual - - 2100 
 
 By the Arrears of the laid Rate - - 43 1 5 4 
 
 79 5 4 
 Due to Balance 268 15 7 
 
 S48 O II 
 
 Efqj Treafurer. 
 
 173 1. By Calh paid feveral jmaimed Soldiers and Mari'? 
 
 ners, as /)fr Account ftated - - i " 
 
 By ditto paid the Clerk, as ufual 
 By the Arrears of the faid Rate 
 
 ual 
 
 2 10 
 
 ate 
 
 37 5 4 
 
 Due to Balance 
 
 72 Ij: 4 
 292 12 II 
 
 
 365 8 3 
 
 Efqi Treafurer. •-..„. 
 
 1732. By Cafh paid fevcral maimed Soldiers and Mari-7 
 
 ners, as per Account ftated - - J ^* '^ ° 
 
 By ditto paid the Clerk, as ufual - - 2 10 o 
 
 By the Arrears of the laid Rate - - - 25 9 10 
 
 79 14 10 
 
 Due to Balance 303 13 5 
 
 383 8 3 
 Note, More due from Mr. Pindar^ per Error of^ 
 
 3 /. 115. 10 d. received, but not l?rought tP^ 3 11 10 
 Account, for which he is Debtor - - 3 ' 
 
 387 o I 
 
 Efq; Treafurer. 
 
 1733. By Calh paid maimed Soldiers and Mariners, as^ 
 
 per Account ftated - - - ^1900 
 
 By ditt9 paid the Clerk, as ufual - - 2100 
 
 Due to Balance, over and above the 3 /. 11 s.l r, 
 10 d. ErioT'ia Mr. Harvey's Account - j ^ 
 
 21 10 o 
 5 
 
 :'ey 
 
 303 13 5 
 EK] Charge.
 
 'Charge. '^acob Harvey^ 
 
 • ■''■ ' ■ /. s. d, 
 
 1734. To Balance of his Account for the Year 1733. - 282 3 5 
 
 .: ; C - 
 
 ^t?f 0^ Harvty 
 173J. To Balance of his Account for the Year 1734. 250 3 5 
 
 
 ^rffoZ" Harvey 
 1736. To Balance of his Account for the Year 1735. 193135 
 
 'John Hlggs 
 
 i734> To Cafh received of fundry High Conftablcs, being > ^ „ 
 the Arrears of Rates - - - ' !^ 56 18 9 
 
 Balances rematn'wz in 
 
 Mr. Pindar's - - . 
 
 Mr, Har-vey'i • - - 
 
 Mr. ///^^i's - - - 
 
 Mr. Jones ^ as pf r his Account appears 
 
 Mr. Cotfwortb - - «
 
 [ 5?] 
 
 Efq; Trcafurcr. Dtfcharge. 
 
 1734. ^y ^^^ P^'^ leveral maimed Soldiers and Mari-; 
 ners, as per Account dated 
 
 /. s. d. 
 29 10 o 
 
 By ditto paid the Clerk, as ufual - - 210 
 
 o 
 
 3200 
 Due to Balance 250 3 5 
 
 282 3 s 
 
 iJEiq- Treafurer. 
 
 1735. By Cafh paid feveral maimed Soldiers and Marl-? 
 
 ners, as per Account ftated - - 5 '^ ° ° 
 
 By c///^o paid the Clerk, as ufual - - 2 10 
 
 o 
 
 56 10 o 
 Due to Balance 193 13 5 
 
 250 3 S 
 
 Efq; Treafurer. 
 
 1756. By Ca(h paid feveral maimed Soldiers and Mari-? 
 
 ners, as per Account ftated - - 5 '" 
 
 By rf/«o paid the Clerk, as ufual - - 2 10 o 
 
 41 10 o 
 Due to Balance 152 3 5 
 
 193 »3 5 
 
 Gent. Treafurer. 
 
 1734. By Cafli paid for the Book to keep the Account in 00 1 1 6 
 
 Due to Balance 56 7 3 
 
 56 18 9 
 
 the Treafurer s Handsy Viz. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 3 II 10 
 
 - 152 3 S 
 
 56 n s 
 
 5 12 8 
 19 18 8 
 
 237 13 10 
 
 
 Jn
 
 [4o] 
 
 An ExtraB of the ACCOUNT of maimed Soldiers and Mariners for 
 
 Offulfton Hundred, &c. 
 
 An. 1721. Balance in the Treafurer's Han4s 
 Rates from 1711 101732 - 
 1727. Balance in Mr. yo«f/'s Hands 
 In Mr. CotefTPorth's Hands 
 
 Applied tothe Service for which it was raifed 
 Deficiencies on the above Rates - - . 
 
 Borrow'd for repairing Hicks' .-Hall, not yet re-placed 
 Ditto for repairing New trifon '. 
 
 Remains unapplied for maimed Soldiers and Mariners 
 Loft by Mr. Cotefaorth's dying infolvent 
 
 As more fully appears by the under-written Particulars, 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 3»J i8 1 
 
 967 4 
 
 5-128 
 
 19 i3 3 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 1384 I J 6 
 
 
 - 400 i ' 
 
 4j »« 6:" 
 
 5-,-o I 6 
 in 6 8 
 44J 11 6 
 
 »»7 «T * 
 
 19 18 S 
 
 
 1384 I J 6 
 
 
 Rates. 
 
 Received. 
 
 Arrears not 
 colkaed. 
 
 Arrears 
 colieaed 
 
 
 Borrowed 
 
 Repaid. 
 
 Applied. 
 
 N". XIII. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ■ 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 /. s. d 
 
 I s. 
 
 </. 
 
 /. s. d 
 
 /. s. 
 
 d 
 
 /. 
 
 s. d 
 
 /. s. d 
 
 /. s. d 
 
 1722. 
 
 87 2 
 
 8;- 1(5 
 
 
 
 I 6 
 
 
 
 400 
 
 
 
 
 42 10 c 
 
 1723. 
 
 87 2 
 
 8}- 16 
 
 
 
 I 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3f >r '^ 
 
 1724. 
 
 87 2 
 
 Sj- 16 
 
 
 
 I 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 40 ;■ 
 
 I72J-. 
 
 87 2 
 
 85- 1(5 
 
 
 
 160 
 
 
 
 73 
 
 II 6 
 
 
 32 c 
 
 1726. 
 
 88 8 
 
 62 13 
 
 7 
 
 ^5- '4 J- 
 
 
 
 
 
 30 10 
 
 1727. 
 
 88 8 
 
 3^ 3 
 
 
 
 j6 y 
 
 
 
 
 
 30 30 f 
 
 1728. 
 
 88 8 
 
 7f 16 
 
 8 
 
 
 C.2 II 
 
 4 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 28 10 
 
 1720. 
 
 88 8 
 
 j-8 i8 
 
 8 
 
 29 9 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 33 
 
 / 7 
 
 1730. 
 
 88 8 
 
 44 '* 
 
 8 
 
 43 'J- 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3J- 10 
 
 1731. 
 1732. 
 
 88 8 
 
 T' i 
 
 8 
 
 37/4 
 
 S 4 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 3J- 10 
 
 88 8 
 
 62 i8 
 
 2 
 
 rS 9 >o 
 
 f '9 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 5-4 f 
 
 "7JJ- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 21 10 
 
 >7J4' 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3200 
 
 >73f- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ^6 10 
 
 1735. 
 
 
 
 
 j-6 18 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 42 1 6 
 
 
 967 4 073' 9 
 
 T 
 
 ^3J- >4 7 
 
 94 '9 
 
 3 
 
 473 
 
 II 6 
 
 30 
 
 j-fo I 6 
 
 
 
 82 7 
 
 1 1 
 
 4 
 
 82 7 r, 
 
 12 1 1 
 
 41 3° 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 813 17 
 
 ii-3 6 8 
 
 82 7 
 
 11443 
 
 11 6 
 
 
 
 rj-5 6 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 ?<57 4 
 
 
 
 
 In Mr. Pindar's Hands 
 
 In Mr. Harvey's 
 
 In Mr. Hi^gs'i 
 
 In Mr. Jones's 
 
 In Mr.Cotefxiorth's 
 
 l. t. d. 
 J II 10") 
 
 r-S 7 3f 
 / II 8) 
 
 T I r 
 
 Loft. 
 
 12 II 
 
 7 7 4 
 
 19 18 8 
 
 /. I. d. 
 
 217 IJ X 
 
 19 iS 8 
 
 237 13 10 
 
 NUMB.
 
 [4» ] 
 
 w 
 
 NUMB.
 
 [ 4? ] 
 
 NUMB. XIV. 
 
 Maimed Soldiers and Mariners for the 
 Charge. ' John Tarver, 
 
 1. s. d. 
 1722. To a Rate made by Order in Eafter Seffions - 42 o 8 
 
 Note, In Feb. 173 1. by Order of Seffions, Mr. T'^r-yfr 
 was defired to lay an Account before the 
 Juftices, of the Chriftian and Sirnames of the 
 maimed Soldiers and Mariners within the laid 
 Hundreds, who were living, fince which no 
 Rate has been made. 
 
 Note,^ 
 
 Mr. Clitheroe, Treafurer for the faid Hundreds in'^^ 
 
 1722 and 1723. ]paid Sir Daniel Dolins - J ^ ° ° 
 
 Mr. 5K//?rt;c/f, Treafurer for 172 j:. paid Mr. Co?/^") ^ ^ 
 
 wor/^ the Balance of his Account - - -J * 
 
 Sir Georj;c Coo^, Treafurer for 1726. paid £///ro - 11 14 
 
 v^lhert Nislet i)&\d Sir Datiie4 Doliiis - - 19 11 °
 
 [ 45 ] 
 
 Hundreds o/Elthorne,Spckhorne, j«J Ifleworth.^ 
 
 Efq; Treafurer. Difcharge. 
 
 7. s. d. 
 1732. By Cafh paid to fundry maimed Soldiers and Mariners 18 15 o 
 
 By De6cicncies on the faid Rate - - - - ^2 19 4 
 
 41 14 4 
 Due to Balance 00 6 4 
 
 42 o 8
 
 [44] 
 
 jin Extract of the Jlccount of Maimed Soldiers and 
 Mariners for Elthornc Hundred^ &c. 
 
 Accounted for to the Committee to whom the Account was re-" 
 t'-rrM from the Year 1711 to 1719 both inclufive, and applied toj 
 the Service tor which it was railed ■ 
 
 Deficiencies on all the Rates ■ ■ ■ • 
 
 Borrowed for the Repair of Hicki's Hall 
 
 Rfmaiiii uoappl od — — — 
 
 Lofl by Mr. Ccrarfworth's dying Infolvcnt 1 ■ 
 
 167 17 8 
 
 87 9 
 8i II 
 6 4 
 
 L. ^6t 4. 
 
 No.XIV. 
 
 Anno 17 
 
 >7 
 17 
 
 >7 
 '7 
 "7 
 •7 
 >7 
 »7 
 17 
 •»7 
 «7 
 >7 
 
 As more fully appears by the Under-written Particulars; 
 
 lAccounted tor| | [Deficiencies 
 
 Rates. I and Applied. |Borrowed. Loft. ontheRates. 
 
 «7 
 
 +i 
 
 42 
 
 +^ 
 +1 
 
 +i 
 4i 
 4^ 
 41 
 
 4i 
 
 i. 
 
 s. d.\ I. 
 
 \ 
 
 4. 
 4' 
 
 4' 
 4; 
 8 iS 15- 
 
 L. 461 4 
 
 /. s. 
 
 •6; 
 19 II 
 
 /. ... d. 
 
 II 18 S 
 II 14 
 
 167 17 8 I 81 II 14 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 41 4 
 41 4 
 12 19 4 
 
 Aixcars received by Alien Hishett 19 11 
 
 87 9 
 
 Remains. 
 
 64 
 
 Sir
 
 i 45 ] 
 
 IMJ
 
 [40 
 
 NUMB. XV. 
 
 Sir Daniel Doiins, deceafedy as Treafurer of thel ^ 
 County of Middlefex, is - - - J ''' 
 
 /. /. d. 
 
 To nze\\t6. of Thomas Jones, Treafurer of the Me>/5a^a, &c. - - 2S2 ^ 6 
 To received of Arrears of maimed Soldiers of which Sir Daniel whs Trea- 
 furer, and the Refidue of what received as Treafurer, he paid to Sir 
 yohn Goiifon ...... . ^00 o o 
 
 To received of Mr. Hardifiy on Arrear of Colt-Money - - -5000 
 
 To received oi James CUtherce, Efq; Treafurer for maimed Soldiers for El- 
 
 thorne, Jic. - - - - • - -63 00 
 
 To received of Thomas Jones, Treafurer of the Vagrant iVloney for OJfuljlon 138 010 
 To received of Wiltiam Murden, Treafurer for Maijkalfea, &c. for Elthorne 
 
 Hundred - - - -- - -20 00 
 
 To received o( Albert Nisbett, for Rc!ief of maimed Soldiers, and other pub- 
 lick Monies - - - - - 1 9 1 1 o 
 
 To receiveda Fine on a Leafe of part of the V.'orkhoufe of 5f//^r/, <S aT 100 o o 
 To received twelve Montlis Rent of liit ^laktrs HouTe (per Mr. Pfallei) 
 
 due at Lad)' day, 1725 - . - - 30 o O 
 
 To received of Mr. Baynham, eighteen Months Rent due Lfl<^-<fc)', 1725. 
 
 30/. Lefs by Taxes, i/. 17/. - - - - 28 3 o 
 
 To leceived twelve Months of the fakers, per Mr. Waller, due Laay-aijy, 
 
 1726 - - - - - -30 00 
 
 To received of Mr. 5^«Z-aA», for Rent doe Michaelmas, 1725. 10/. Lefs, 
 
 14/. Tax - - - - - - 9 6 o 
 
 To received for the S^aakers Houfe, of Mr. Wallr, Rent due Lady-day, 1 727 30 o o 
 To received of P/?'////* Af7/^;>f, Efq; out of the Bridge Rate - - 46 19 6 
 
 To received oi li'illtam TiUaid, Efq; E,xfcutor ot Sir Ij'aac Tillard, Treafurer 
 
 of [he Bridge Money - - - - "'97o? 
 
 To received of Mr. i?«/,(tfr ..... jqo 12 r 
 
 To received'of Mr. Nine - - - - 30 o o 
 
 To received of Mr. Jmes - - » - 3 11 10 
 
 1578 10 6 
 
 i 1
 
 [47] 
 
 Ter Contra ' 5 s Cr, 
 
 1 By paid T/jomtts Elk'i?is, Bricklayer for Hidis Hall, as fer three Receipts 192 9 o 
 
 2 B) paid 7»/ i)5^, Joyaer, as /cr two keccipts ^ ••'!'>■) lol ff? 156 o o 
 
 3 By paid H'ilUam Jyres, Carpenter, as fur tWo Receipts ? - 240 o o 
 
 4 By paid Kffmrfj Pt7/^a<y^, Smith, as /<■/• two Receipts . - 100 o o 
 
 5 By paid John Jones, Painter - - . -5700 
 
 6 By paid yo/)« i^tv/v/ff, fora Table - « • i I O 
 
 7 By paid H'ilUam Attey, Carpenter I ■ i Z - o 18 O 
 
 8 By paid 'John Hughes, Watdunan - - » •0136 
 
 9 By paid Samuel Could, Chairniaker - » 5 i'sSo 
 
 10 By paid JV:f(3///6fiu //t'xi.£//, Meicer "^ - • . 27 5 O 
 
 11 By ^z\di Daniel W.tber's - - i i B 14OO 
 
 12 By paid /'/V/7/«w A'/z/j,^/, Glafsman - - ; iq o o 
 
 13 By paid 6V./,?Y/;' Pfwy, Paviour - -"g 2100 
 
 1 4 By paid Dauid Higij, Upholder - - - - 440 
 
 15 By paid yo/;«/Z'a« 7; /V/^f//, Glazier - ; .^- •^0166 
 
 16 By paid Francis Geary - - - IS 200 
 
 17 By paid ya/v/ //y^trt/?, Glazier - . r S " O 13 6 
 
 18 r<y paid ///'///aOT^z-ewf/-, Packer, for Green Cloth - - 12 o o 
 
 19 By paid yo/6» il/o/r/j, for a Candlellick - - -06 
 
 2 
 
 o 
 
 20 By paid il^a///«uAfc/f«//, for Locks, iiff. - - - 046 
 
 21 By paid i?/ir/;fi;r//l/;>;w. Glazier - - - « 21 3 o 
 
 22 By paid Jo/e^h Roberts, Plumber - - - - 31100 
 
 23 By paid Riehanl Fra»/ufn, Ironmonger - 2 - 11 5 o 
 
 24 By paid //rtfif Mai/'Jicld, PlaiUerer - - - 44 lo o 
 2^ Ky paid H'iltuim Ouirum, Upholder - - - 20 o o 
 
 26 by paid John U'ocJuU, Maion - • - 70 o o 
 
 27 1!);; paid ;■////)) A/V////t/>f, lii'q. about CZ-/'r//'t'^ Bridge - - 13 6 i 
 
 28 Ey piiid ditto about ditto - - ; 406 
 
 29 By paid John Morris, Smith, for Hicks' s -Hal I - - -420 
 
 30 Ey paid diiLO for ditto - - - 2 6 6 
 
 31 By paid towards repairing CZ'o/yi'a Bridge to the Contraftors - 226 13 4 
 
 32 Orders ^o- fundry Receipts, 'viz.. 
 
 /^/7/o«, the Slater, i /. %:. td. Hughe;, bs. Mafcall, 2s. <^d. altering 
 
 the Till, 5^. - - - - 223 
 
 J By paid C7--a!-/« 7?(3i^o7j, for Blocks for thelloufeof Correftion - 30 17 o 
 
 , By paid Jofcph Sahcay, per a Bill for ditto - - - 440 
 
 ^ By paid /-/'/7//V?»; Holmes — — — for ditto - ; - 28150 
 
 J By paid John Diilron for ditto - - 5160 
 
 l',y ipuA John r^rajde ■ for ditto - - . 6 16 O 
 
 By paid Jof. Baker — — for ditto - - - 3110 
 
 21/ "fu/ie, 1728. F.tiors escepieJ, 
 
 ijSS 16 8 
 By Balance 189 13 10 
 
 y?)/ Dc(*;t Aiargnret Dolins. J -78 10 6 
 
 The. Coolie ^ " 
 
 Ihis is a Cop'' af the Aeount as fiated and fetlhd the yi of July, 
 1728. at Hicki's-ilall, hy the Com??iittee of JuJIices thii 
 piefcHt, viz. 
 
 hlr. Cotefworth 
 Pindar 
 \\"iltlhire 
 , ^J'roughtQli 
 
 ^fothiU 
 Mitchell 
 
 NUMB.
 
 [ 48 ] 
 NUMB. XVI. 
 
 c o u N rr 
 
 V . - C H A R Q E. 
 
 172(5, ^ /. ^. <f. 
 
 Oilob. SefT. To a Rate for the Repair of Brentfard 3.n\ Chertfea Bridge 600 o o 
 .*» ,1 .. . 
 
 ^i<S i^<- ' To ditto for Chertfia Bridge Soo o o 
 
 6 o o^"; * - ■ . . 
 
 o o Oi ; - . 1 4C0 o o 
 
 o o ^"i- • ••■■ , 
 
 oil" • - /. S. d. 
 
 ft'atP,^ In l.lT.ff^i/f/ii^e's Accounif 49 1. lyl. 2 d^ appears j 
 ' ' '^ to iiave been paid Mrs. Ofin, duf to John Oficy. f 
 
 ■ Efq; (3n Accoifrt of the'Ma ket^ which, by an> go 14 97 
 ""Account made up appears to have been replaced,! 
 ° ° 4-'"allbut " - - ' " - - - - ) 
 o o : ■ " I. s. d 
 
 " Wfe- In Mr. C«//%<j(jr/;5'3 Account" - - - 31 56 
 
 •Jn Mr. TUggss, 
 
 31 5 6 ? 
 
 17 18 10^5 
 
 49 2 4^ 
 
 49 '7 2 
 
 NUMB. XVII. 
 
 C O U NT r 
 
 CHARGE. 
 
 173'- /. s. d, 
 
 Ftb. I. To a Rate for the Repair of .5rf»y»r</ Bridge . ; - aco o e 
 
 Nile, There was a Rate for 200 /. in the Year 173;, now removed into 
 the Kiiigi Bench, therefore not accounted for.
 
 [49] 
 
 B R IT> G E S. 
 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 By Deficiencies on the Rate in OtfZs/^^T Seffions 1723, 441 
 
 By Disburfements paid by fundry Orders, as appears by Sir I/aac Tillard'% 
 
 Account - - - - - - - 398 15 6 
 
 By ditto by Sir Z>a;H>/ Z)o/!>;j, as appears by his Account - - - 243 19 11 
 
 /. s. d. 
 By ditto by Mr. ?^7///fe;W, as per his Account - - 641 13 8 
 
 Cut of which 46/. 1 9 J. 6 d. is to be dedufled, being 
 paid by Mr. IViitJhiie to Sir Datiiel Dolins, and by 
 him accounted for in the above Sum of 243 /. 19 J. 1 1 </. 46 19 6 
 
 ~ 594 14 z 
 
 By Balance of Mr. Wlltjhire\ Account, paid to Mr. Cotfiuorth - - 44 8 1 1 
 
 By Deficiencies on the Rate for Soo /. in 1726. - • 113 17 5 
 
 1400 o o 
 
 Memorandum. /. s. d. 
 
 Mr. Cot/worth chargeth himfelf in his Book with the above 
 
 Balance of - - - - --44 811 
 
 Alfo to have received of Mr. Nine Part of above Arrear 23 6 u 
 
 67 i; 10 
 Out of which he gives himfelf Credit for two Sums paid 5 i o n 
 
 Remained in his Hands at the time of his Death - - 62 4 1 1 
 
 B R I T> G E S. 
 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 By Deficiencies of the faid Rate . - - - 29 16 5^ 
 
 By Disburfements by Mr. Barker - - - - 83 150 
 
 By ditto by Mr. Cluhcroe, - - - - - 27515 
 
 By ditto by Mr. i//^^j, -. -' - - -- 20810 
 
 ^ ^, '61 5 4i 
 
 Due to Balance - • - - 38 14 77 
 
 200 
 
 /. /. d. 
 In Mr. Barker's Hands - - - - 726 
 
 In Mr. Higgi\ Hands - - - 3 1 1 2 i ;r 
 
 38 14 Ik 
 
 By Mr. Jones's Account there appears to bs in his Hands 
 
 a further Sum of- - - - - 31211 
 
 42 7 6;- 
 
 [ N j
 
 [50] 
 
 H A R G E. 
 
 HAT 
 
 1727. '• -f- 
 
 Afrilx-,. To Cafh paid Mary Ojjley, Widow and Executrix of John 
 Offer, Efq; late Treafurer oi the Hay Market^ by Fhdip 
 IViliJhire, Efq; Treafurer of the Bridge Money, being bor- 
 rowed by Order of Court Dec. 8, 1726, and Jan. 12, I72t), 
 and to be refunded and paid bacic out yf the Toll of the 
 Hay Market - - -- - - -49^7 
 
 Kote, In the Petitioners Charge, as ftated by their Agents, it does not 
 appear that any Sum of Money was due to Mr. Offley on the 
 Hay Market Account, or that any Care was taken by the 
 Juflices, that Mr. Wiltjliire fhould be repaid, altho' both appear 
 by theOrderoftheSthof JD«e»/^f>', 1726, which was read by 
 them, and is again inforced by a fubfequent Order the 12th of 
 Ja7iuary, 1726, for the Repayment of it by 10/. a Year, by the 
 Treafurers of the Hay Market^ which he did not caufe to be 
 read. 
 
 ,11
 
 f 5^ ] 
 MARKET. 
 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 1728, /. !. d 
 
 May^') By Cifh paid to Mr Cotfvjotth^ by Philip Stoth.trd, Deputy 
 'rrealliiei of xhtHay Market, in part ot" 4.9/. 17^ 2.d. za- 
 Vinced by Mr. l^iltjljtre, by Order of Scllions, one Year's 
 Payment, due at Eajler laft, as appears by an attefted Copy 
 from Mr. Cofftoorth's Book - - - - 10 o o 
 
 1729, 
 Oif. 16. By ditto paid ditto by ditto, on Account of the Haj' Market - lo o o 
 
 1730, 
 Oii. 19. By ditto paid ditto by 5d«a«*/W'^iJi;fr, Coileflor of the Toll of 
 
 the Ilaji Miirkci - - - - -1136 
 
 173 T, 
 
 Ju»e 3, By ditto paid to Mr. John Higgs, General Treafurer, by the faid 
 SatiiucI li'eaxer^ the Balance of his Account for the Year 
 1730 - - - - - - 17 18 loj 
 
 49 2 4i 
 Due to the Balance of Bridges, - -- 14 9^ 
 
 49 17 2 
 
 2f?»
 
 r 
 
 5^1 
 
 An Extract of the Account of Comity Bridges 
 
 
 Rates. 
 
 I72CJ 
 
 - 600 
 
 1726 
 
 - 800 
 
 I73I 
 
 - 200 
 
 1600 
 
 Applied :o the Service for which ir vai railed 
 
 Deficiencies on the tliree Ratci 
 
 fiorrowed - - - 
 
 Loft by Mr. Cot/worth's dying lufolvent 
 
 ilore of the Money repaid 
 
 Loft by Mr. Joies, or in his Hrnds 
 
 Remains unapplied for the Reiair of Bridges 
 
 62. 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 - J 24 11 oi 
 
 - — 14 j,| 
 
 3 iz 1 1 
 56 13 6 
 
 1 600 o o 
 
 As more fully appears by the underwritten Particulars, 
 
 ^reafurers 
 Names. 
 
 N" XVI. and 
 
 xvir. 
 
 Sir//. q'iUard 
 Sir Dan. Dol'ms 
 Mr. Wiltjlire 
 Mr. Jor.es 
 Mr. Cotfwcrth 
 Mr. Barker 
 Mr. CI it her ce 
 Mr. ///;g^gx 
 
 Cotjworth 
 
 JfpUrd. 
 
 I. . 
 
 /. 
 
 W. 
 
 59S 
 
 J5 
 
 6 
 
 243 
 
 »9 
 
 11 
 
 541 
 
 4 
 
 I 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 II 
 
 83 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 5 
 
 li 
 
 20 
 
 S 
 
 10 
 
 1320 
 
 '9 
 
 4i 
 
 I'ed b 
 
 yM 
 
 1 
 
 Dificicf:( 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 4 4 J 
 
 113 i; 5 
 
 29 16 5i 
 
 '4: 17 I'j 
 25 611 
 
 I 2.'} II O^ 
 
 Borrcived. 
 
 I. s. d 
 
 49 17 2 
 
 49 1; 
 
 49 » 4i 
 
 14 9 1 
 
 Rrpaid. 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 49 2 4: 
 
 ip/ /^ \LofibyMr 
 .LVCfiy"-! [ones oi-/\ 
 worth, his Hands 
 
 I. s. d 
 
 93 2 5 
 
 /. s. d 
 
 12 II 
 
 /. X. rf. 
 
 T z 6 
 
 !? IS 10=- 
 5 1 12 li- 
 
 49 2 4j 95 S 5 5 12 iij 56 13 <S 
 
 4\K'
 
 f 5J] 
 
 [CI
 
 i 54 ] 
 NUMB. XVIII. 
 
 S/r Thomas liewettj 
 
 CHARGE. 
 
 /. J. i. 
 
 To Ca(h borrowed of the feveralTreafurers of MaimedSoldiers and Mari- 
 ners, Vagrants, M-iifiatfea 3lv\& King s Bench, between the z 8th oi Fe- 
 ^r»a/> 1722,' and the 25th of iWrty 1726. ... lodz 17 9 
 
 Kotf, The \oi\i oi Oiloher, T726, Sir DamilDoUr.s paid /. s. J. 
 Dank! Withers, after the Report was made of 
 the Repairs ilZ-^v 25, 1726. - • -200 
 
 Ovtr-paid John J firs -1500 
 
 17 o o 
 
 1079 17 9
 
 [ 55 ] 
 
 Repairs at Hicks's-Hall. 
 
 I 
 
 April 20. 
 
 1723 
 
 2 
 
 May I 8. 
 
 1723. 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 Ditto, 
 Ditto, 
 
 • 
 
 5 
 
 May 21. 
 
 1723. 
 
 6 
 
 Ditto, 
 
 
 7 Wiw. 14, 1725. 
 
 8 Ditto, 
 
 9 Ditto, 
 
 10 Dec. 28. 1723. 
 
 1 1 Ditto, 
 
 12 Ditto, 
 
 I 3 Feb. 29. 1723- 
 
 14 Mar. II. 1723. 
 
 15 Ditto, 23 
 
 16 Ditto, 
 
 17 Ditto, 
 
 1 8 Ditto, 
 
 19 Ditto 
 
 20 Ditto 
 
 21 5f/iM4, 1724. 
 
 22 0<5. 6. 
 
 23 AW. 17. 
 
 24 Ditto 21. 
 
 25 Ditto, 
 
 26 D^f. 2. 
 
 27 Afe)'i4, 1725. 
 
 28 Ditto, 
 
 29 Ditto, 
 
 30 ya^ 22. 
 
 31 Ditto, 
 
 32 Ditto, 
 
 ^3 May 25. 1726. 
 
 34 June, 7. 
 
 35 Ditto, 
 
 36 Ditto, 
 
 37 Ditto, 
 
 38 Qii. 10. 1726. 
 
 DISC HARGE. 
 
 By Cadi paid by Sir Daniel Doi ins to nomas Elkins, by 
 
 an Order of Seflions, dated 28 Feb. 1722. advanced 
 
 to him to provide Materials for Bricklayers Work, 
 
 purfuant to his Contrail 
 
 By ditto paid Jojeph Dob, by the fame Order, advanced 
 
 to him to provide Materials for Joyners V/ork 
 By ditto paid Thomas Elkins, more advanced 
 By ditto ■^^iAWdllam Ayrcs, by the fame Order, advanced 
 to him to provide Materials for Caroenters Work, as 
 per Contraft 
 By ditto paid Tliomas Piercehoufe^y the fame Order, ad- 
 vanced to him to provide Materials for Smith's Work, 
 as per Contrail - . . . 
 
 By ditto paid John Jones, by the fame Order, advanced 
 to him to provide Materials for Paigters Work, as 
 per Contraft 
 By ditto paid John Sperinke, for a Table 
 By ditto paid William Atty, Carpenter 
 By ditto paid John Hughes, Watchman 
 By ditto paid Mr. Gould, Chairmaker 
 By ditto paid Mattheiv He-wett, Mercer 
 By ditto paid John Morrice, Smith 
 By ditto paid ^/7/;(7/« AT^/ji/, filafsman 
 By ditto paid Stephen Penny, Paviour - - ^ 
 
 By ditto paid John Morrice, Smith 
 By ditto paid Da'vid Higby, UphoUlerer 
 By ditto paid Jonathan 'Tiicket, Glazier 
 By ditto paid Francis Gerey - - - 
 
 By ditto paid John Wheatley, Glazier, 
 By ditto paid William Breiver, Packer, for Green Cloth 
 By ditto paid Matthew Ma/call, for Locks, i^c. 
 By ditto paid John Morrice, for a Candleilick 
 By ditto paid Matthew Ma/call, for altering the Till 
 By ditto paid Robert Wefton, Slater 
 By ditto paid John Hughes, Watchman 
 By ditto paid Matthew Ma/call - - - 
 
 By ditto pM Richard Munis, Ghzier 
 By ditto paid John Roberts, Plumber 
 By ditto paid Richard Franfum, Ironmonger 
 By ditto paid Thomas Elkins, Bricklayer, in full 
 By ditto paid Ifaac Mansfield, Plaifterer 
 By ditto paid William Outrum, Upholfterer 
 By ditto paid John Jones, Painter, in full 
 By ditto paid John Waodall, Mafon 
 By ditto paid Jofeph Deb, Joyner, in full 
 By ditto paid William Ayrcs, Carpenter, in full 
 By ditto paid Thomas Piercehoiife, Smith, in full 
 By ditto paid Daniel Withers, Chairmaker 
 
 J. d. 
 
 100 o o 
 
 50 
 60 
 
 100 
 
 30 
 
 o o 
 o o 
 
 'S 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 
 »3 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 S 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 •9 
 
 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 !3 
 
 6 
 
 1 -t 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 a 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 21 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 3J 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 32 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 44 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 
 57 
 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 
 
 
 
 106 
 
 
 
 
 
 140 
 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 
 
 
 
 •4 
 
 
 
 
 
 1079 17 9 
 
 N U M B.
 
 [ 56] 
 NUMB. XIX, 
 
 An Account of Monies borro'-ji'ed of the fever al Treafiirers for 
 
 CHARGE. 
 
 Dates of Orders 
 of Sejfions. 
 
 Febr. zS. ijzz- To Ca(h paid into Sir Z)fl»jV/ DaZ/Ws Hands, by Thomas I. s. d. 
 Jones, High Conftable, Treaiurer of the Mar/haljea, 
 Kings Bench, and Hofpitals, being borrowed tov.ards 
 repairing Hicks^sHall, . . . 2S2 5 6 
 
 j)itto To ditto more by Mr. Mil/ter to Sir Daniel Dolins, being 
 
 the Balance of the faid jo:ies's Account . . 3 1 1 1 o 
 
 yan. l9. "To ditto paid Sir Daniel DoJins, hy James Clitheroe, Efq; 
 
 Treafarer, for Maimed Soldiers and ivJariners . 63 o o 
 
 7V/<2y 30. 1723. To ditto of Thomas Jones, Treafurer of the Vagrant 
 
 Money, for the Hundred of Offuljlon . . . 138 o ic 
 
 Ditto To ditto of William Murdcn, Treafurer of the Marfial/ea, 
 
 f^r the Hundred of Elthorne . . . 20 o o 
 
 Ditto, To ditto of Albert Nisbelt, on account of Maimed 
 
 Soldiers, t^c. . . . . 19 11 o 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 Ditto, To ditto of Thomas Burdus, Efq; Treafurer 
 
 of the Houfe of Corredlion, the Balance 
 of his Account of a Rate in 1 717. . . 100 12 5 
 Out of which Sir Daniel Dolins paid for Re- 
 pairs of the Houfe of Correition, as per 
 his Account . . . 79 19 o 
 
 20 t 3 5 
 
 Ditto, To ditto of Mr. Nine, one of the High Confiables of 
 
 the Jilr.ijhnl'ca, King's Bench, and Hofpitals . . 30 o o 
 
 Ditto, To ditto retained in Sir Daniel Dolins'' i, Hands, being 
 
 Part of the Balance of his Account as Treafurer of 
 the Maimed Soldiers and \Jariners . . . 400 o o 
 
 To ditto of Philij) inlijhire, Efq; Treafurer of the 
 firidge Money, the Remainder of 49/. 17/. zd. net 
 replaced . . . ..0149} 
 
 To ditto of Sir Henry Penrice, Treafurer of the Maimed 
 Soldiers for Offiilflpn , being the Remainder of 
 -3/. 1 1 J. 6 d. n-Jt replaced . . . . 43 ij 6 ■ 
 
 102t 8 lOj
 
 f 57] 
 
 the Repair of Hicks's-Hall, to be replacd by Order of SeJJions. 
 
 Dates of Orders 
 
 of SeJjions. 
 July II. 1723. 
 
 May 30. 
 ^ec. 4. 
 
 1723. 
 1724. 
 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 By Ca(h paid into Sir Daniel DolMi Hands, General 
 County Trealurcr, by Robert llaidijiy. Deputy Clerk 
 of the Peace, out of tlie Colt-Money, by Order of 
 SelTions of this Date . . . . . 
 
 By County Rents paid into '6'iv Daniel Dali/ii's Hands, by 
 Mr. IVatter, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, by Order of 
 Seffions of this Date, njiz. 
 
 I. 
 
 d. 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 28 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 2 Months of the i^iaier's Workhoufe, 
 
 due Lady-Day, I 724. 
 12 Months due Z,/2i/v-i'^)', 1725- • • 
 12 Months due Z,ai?c £)«)', 1726. 
 
 6 Months due M/iZi«e/««j, 1726. . . 
 12 Monttii d\xe Michaelmas, i^zj. 
 
 July 9. 1724. By Cafh paid to Sir Daniel Dolins, being the Fine of a 
 Leafe lett by them of the ;^a/ft/-jWorkhoufe, to John 
 Sellers, ij a/' . . . . ' . 
 
 By Cafh in Mr. Higgs's Hands, by him received of Mr. 
 Caucnaugh, Keeper of AVxv Prifan, towards replacing 
 Part of the 43 /. lis. 6 d. borrowed of Sir ILnry 
 Penriie 
 
 I?ue to balance to the feveral Treafurers 
 
 50 
 
 127 9 
 
 100 
 
 d. 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 282 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 • 738 
 
 •9 
 
 .o,t 
 
 1021 
 
 8 
 
 lOJ- 
 
 - AH 
 
 .eHz'tri r. 
 [ P 1
 
 [38] 
 NUMB. XX. 
 
 County Rents paid to Mr. Coatfworth by Thomas Wilkinfon, 
 
 CHARGE, 
 
 /. /. d. 
 
 July XI t I'zS. To Cafh received of 7homas ff'ilkinfin, for one Year's 
 Rent of the Quakers Workhoule to Lady-day laft, as 
 appears by the Copy of Mr. CmZ/woj-^^'s Account, - 25 18 o 
 
 jSpril 3, 1729. Todittoreceivedof ditto, for one Year and a quarterRent 
 of the /l/H/ifrry Houfe, to Lady-day 1728, Taxes de- 
 duced ; and Half a Year's Rent of the Quaker's 
 Workhoufe, due Ji?cW/«;/i.( 1 7 28, as appears by ditto 36 14 8 
 
 Augufi 14. To ditto received of ditto, on Account of Rent, omitted 
 
 in Mr. Coatfiserth's Book, which appears by Mr. ff-ll- 
 i5;'«/c»*s Account and Receipt of this Date - - 8 18 o 
 
 yuiie Hf 1730. To ditto received of ditto, for Half a Year's Rent of the 
 
 Workhoufe, due at Michaelmas 17 29 - - -2800 
 
 99 10 8 
 Balance due tor Mr. Ceatf-worth on this Account - - 4 4 o 
 
 103 14 8 
 
 l^ote^ The 20 /. entred in Mr. Ccatftuorth's Book the 17th 
 of Jfril 1729, was paid Mr. fi'ggi the 2;d of 
 June 1729 by Mr. IVilkinfon, by Mr. Coatpworth't 
 Order, as appears by the underwritten Account 
 and the faid Coat/worth's Order. 
 
 County Rents in Mr. Wilkinfon'j Hands, not paid over to 
 
 CHARGE. 
 
 /. /. d. 
 
 1728. By Cafli remaining in his Hands, part of 5* 1. by him re- 
 
 ceived for neat Rent the ill oi May 17 28, as per his 
 
 Account - N" 1. - -420 
 
 1729. By ditto, as per Account N" 3. - - - 24 2 o 
 
 1730. By ditto^ as per Account N" 4. - - -200 
 
 ;o 4 o
 
 [ 59] 
 
 between the 31/? of ]w\y 1728, and the /^th <?/'June 1730. 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 For Fttrnitttre, ijiz- /. ■»• i^- I. f 
 
 Febwary, ijz8. By Cafh. paid Mr. 6'fj'OTo»c, as per Account 
 in the Copy of Mr. Co at f worth's Account - 
 By ditto paid for taking care of the Clock - 
 By dito paid for mending Sir Baptijl Hicks's 
 Pitture - - . - 
 
 By ditto paid for five Umbrellas 
 By ditto paid for two Wainlcot Tables 
 By ditto paid Mr. Braithwaite the Upholfterer 16 
 
 For Repairs at Hicks'i Hall, viz- 
 
 Jfril 16, 1729- By Cafh paid fundry Repairs 
 By diito paid a Painter's Bill 
 By ditto paid a Plaifterer's Bill 
 By ditto paid Mr. Hughes 
 By ditto paid Mr. Warien^ Carpenter 
 
 %» 30. By ditto paid Mr. IVefion, Bricklayer 
 
 2. 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 I 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 I 
 
 lo 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 II 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 «5 
 
 
 
 54 I- 
 
 22 II 
 
 For Repairs at New Prifon, vrz- 
 
 By ditto paid Carpenters, Bricklayers, and Smiths, by 
 Order of Court, Jug.z-j, 1750 - - - 15 
 
 For ProfecHiions, tiiz- 
 
 Not>. 14, 1729. By ditto paid Mr. /f/ggi upon Account - 21 o 
 July 2, 1730. By ditto paid ditto more upon Account - 10 ii 
 
 11 II 
 
 103 14 S 
 
 By an Order the 24th of February 1731, reciting the 
 Order of the 27th of Jugufi 1730, it appears Mr. Coatf- 
 worth did not pay the abovcrfaid 1 5 /. for Repairs of A'ew 
 Prifon, which was paid by Mr. Higgs, v.ith \l. 19 j. more, 
 making together 17 /. ^s, for Hicks's Hall, as per his Ac- 
 count ; and the Petitioners Agents have charged both thelc 
 Sums, one for Neiv Prifon, the other for Hicks's Hall, 
 though on the Face of the fccond Order it plainly appears 
 otherwise. 
 
 Mr. Coatfwonh, between July 31, 1728, and Tune 4, 1750. 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 July I, 1728. By Cafh paid lAr. Seymour, for Coals and Fees, as per his 
 
 Account lSI°i. - - - -420 
 
 For Profecuiions, viz. ' 
 
 June 23, 1729. By ditto paid by Order of IpytlliamVoaifworth to John 
 Higgs, on Account of defending Richard Norwcod s^-A\n\k 
 a Profecution carried on by Thomas Robe, Clerk of the 
 Market, and defending Orders of Seflions removed 
 into x.\k King's Bnch, as per Account N° 3. 20 o o 
 
 By Cafli paid for Coals and Fees, as per ditto - - 420 
 
 Alay 5, 1730. By ditto paid for Coals, as per Account N" 4. 200
 
 [ ^° ] 
 
 NUMB. XXI. 
 
 Coimty Rents paid to Mr. Higgs, General County Treafurer, 
 
 the Ith of 
 
 CHARGE. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 Nov. 23. 1730. To Cafh received of Mr. fr/Vfe/iJ;;, as per his Account - 30 o o 
 
 May 20. 1732- To ditto of ditto, as per ditto . . . 50 o o 
 
 fuiie 2 1 . To ditto of ditto, as per ditto . . . 20 o o 
 
 /)fC. 30. To ditto of ditto, as per ditto, the Balance of his Account 29 14 o 
 
 Dec. 1%. 1733- To ditto, the Balance of his Account . . . 45 4 8 
 
 iJff. 17. 1734. To ditto of ditto, the Balance of his Account . . 45 4 8 
 
 /i^. 13. 1735. Todittoof ditto, the Balance of his Account . . 35 4 6 
 
 Dec. 8. 1736. To ditto of ditto, the Balance of his Account . . 44 1 4 
 
 Carried over 299 9 2 
 
 Note. This Account, Numbered XXI, goes only to Rents due Michaelmas 
 1736. and the half Year due Ladj-day 1737. will pay the Ba- 
 lance due to I he faid Mr. Higgs-
 
 [61 3 
 
 A H 3 
 
 « * 
 
 i;y Thonvis Wil^infon^ between the 4£h «/;_JrtO,c, 1730,. anpl 
 December, 1736. 
 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 For Furniture, viz. 
 
 N" /. s. d. /. s. d. 
 
 14 By Ca(h paid for Umbrella's, as by Mr. ///[p;^/^ Ac- 
 count, F. . . . . . 716 
 
 1 6 By ditto to Mr. Sparks, for a Grate, as per ditto . 15 00 
 2 1 By ditto to Samuel Barret, for a Jack, as per ditto . 990 
 
 For Repairs at Hicks's-Hall, viz. 
 
 3 By Cafli paid Mr. Warden, Carpenter, as per Mr. Higgs's 
 
 Account, F. . . . . 17 5 o 
 
 15 By ditto paid Mr. Jlliiigham, the Article difallowed Mr. 
 
 Osborne by the Committee of Accounts, as per ditto 2 20 
 
 5 By ditto paid Mrs. Seymour, by Order, as per ditto . 290 
 
 6 By ditto paid Mr. ya/i/i, Carpenter, as per ditto . 6 14 a 
 
 7 By ditto paid yoi"?/ S/ai/f, Plumber, as per ditto . 11 13 o 
 
 8 By ditto paid Mr. Jupp, Carpenter, as per ditto . 210 
 
 9 By ditto paid Jofeph 'Jack/on, Bricldayer, as per ditto 11 90 
 10 By ditto paid Mr. //''/va//^. Glazier, as per ditto . 290 
 1 2 By ditto paid fundry Repairs, as per ditto , . . 3106 
 17 By ditto paid Mrs. Seymour, as per ditto . . 100 
 
 and 22 By ditto paid for looking after the Clock . . 176 
 
 For Profcattions, viz. 
 
 1 By Caih made good to the Accountant in iull of his 
 
 Bill of 89 /. 1 8 /. o </. for Law Charges, in defending 
 a Profecution carried on by Ihomas Robe and John 
 Mathenxi, Efqrs. Clerk of the Market of the King's 
 Houfhold, upon an Indiftment by tliem preferred 
 againft Richard Nor-ivood, High Conllable of El- 
 thorne, in relation to the faidt Office : And alfo in 
 defending an Aftion at Law commenced againll 
 the faid Noriwod, for Fees claimed by Colour of 
 the faid Office, and fupporting Orders remov'd by 
 Certiorari, as per Report of the Committee the 13th 
 Jan. 1 731. and Order of Seffions, the 24th of 
 Feb. 1731. . . . . 38 6 4 
 
 2 By ditto paid Mr. Matheius, Attorney in the Crown 
 
 Office, employed on Behalf of the County, in 
 maki'ig a Defence in the above Caufes, per Order 
 the 24th Feb. 1731. . . . , 1 o t; o 
 
 4 By ditto paid John Rolfe, Attorney, his Bill for de- 
 
 fending the Inhabitants of the Hundred of OJuljhn, 
 againll whom an Action was brought on Account of 
 feveral Robberies, per Order . . 100 
 
 23 By ditto mad- good to the Accountant his Bill of 
 
 Colls in profecuting Mofes Prlen, Cierk to Clifford 
 Willa?n Phi.'ips Efq; one of his Majefty's Juftices of 
 the Peace for che County of Middie/e.v, by Order 
 dated the 2 gth Juguji, 1734 . . . 20 17 3 
 
 24 By ditto paid Mr. Matheius, Attorney in the faid 
 
 Caufe '465 
 
 31 10 6 
 
 7. s. d. 
 
 &z o 
 
 84 15 s 
 
 Carried over 178 63
 
 [62] 
 
 CHARGE. 
 
 Brought over ; 
 
 Due to the AccouBttnt Mr. Higit, to balance g 
 
 r. s. d. 
 309 9 % 
 
 321 II 9 
 
 County Rents in Mr. Wilkinfon j Hands, not paid O'ver to 
 
 \ CHARGE. 
 
 r 
 
 1732. By Cafh remaining in his Hands, Part of the 140/. by him re- 
 
 ceived for net Rent, between the 20th of Oiiob. 1730, and 
 29th of Nmiim. 1732. as per his Account Letter A. 
 
 1733. By ditto, as pe: his Account . . B. 
 
 1734. By ditto, as per his Account . . C. 
 
 1735. By ditto, as per bis .-Account '. . . D. 
 J736. By ditto, as per his Account . . . ' E. 
 
 /. 1. 
 
 \o 6 
 
 4 2 
 
 4 2 
 
 12 10 
 
 4 18 
 
 o 
 o 
 o 
 6 
 8 
 
 35 '9 2
 
 [6; ] 
 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 Sroughc over ', . 
 
 178 6 s 
 
 II 
 
 AdvertifementSy viz. 
 
 10 
 
 By Ca(h paid for printing 1000 Orders of Court 
 for better collefting publick Monies . . . 
 19 and 20 By ditto paid for printing Advertifements, Horfe- 
 liire, and Expences, concerning the Election of 
 Reprefentatives for the County of A//Viy/^f;i: - 14 14 o 
 
 ■ 6 4 « 
 
 Salaries, viz. 
 
 By a Year's Salary made good to the Accountant, 
 
 per Order of SeHions, and due 3d June \jiz 
 By ditto, due ■t^djune 1733. 
 By ditto, due ■t^AJimc 1734- • 
 
 By ditto, due -i^AJune 1735. • . 
 
 By ditto, due 3d y«n« 1736. . 
 
 1 8 By Caih paid for Books to keep the Account in 
 
 .. 35 
 
 
 
 • 25 
 
 
 
 • 2? 
 
 
 
 • 29 
 
 
 
 . 25 
 
 
 
 321 II 9 
 
 aVr. Hij;gs, bet-u'een June 4.. 173 
 
 o, and December 8. 1736. 
 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 Bv C^fh paid Mrs. .'Jcvwar, IIou' ■ weeper, for Fees and Cof.ls, as per Account A, 
 By ilitto paid Mrs. i>/ im/tv, Fees nd Coals, a? pe.- Account . . . B, 
 By ditto vvA Mrs Bromly, Fees ard oals, as per Account . . . C. 
 By ditto paid fundry fmall DiiHurl'^ments, lor Advertifements, 
 
 Coal:, Fees, is>'c. as per Account, . . . . D. 
 
 By ditto paid for Fees, Coals, and Advertifements, as per Account. . . E. 
 
 /. 
 
 S. 
 
 /. 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 18 
 
 8 
 
 35 
 
 19 
 
 2 
 
 Ai
 
 [ 64 ] 
 
 All Extraci of the Account of County Rents and EJlate,from 
 -'"' •* -^ Ladv-Day 1723, f<? Michaelmas 1736. 
 
 b ^■ 
 
 Money repaid 
 
 Repairs of Hicks' s-Hail 
 
 Furniture for ditto 
 
 Profecutions - - 
 
 ■Repairs of New Frifon 
 
 Books, Coals, Fees, Advertifements, &>€. 
 
 Salaries _ - - 
 
 Total 
 
 227 9 o 
 
 8+11 4 
 
 66 2 6 
 
 156 7 I 
 1500 
 
 64 8 8 
 
 125 o o 
 
 718 iS 7 
 
 As more fully appears by the underwritten Particulars ; 
 
 XV. r 
 
 and < 
 XIX i 
 
 XX. 
 
 XXI< 
 
 Rents re- 
 ceived. 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 100 o o 
 
 127 9 t) 
 
 ^1) 10 8 
 
 50 4 o 
 
 299 9 2 
 
 35 19 2 
 
 Rep.zid to Re-pairs I Repairs \Furniture 
 
 County- /i/Hicks's 
 T^rcnfiirers. Hall. 
 
 rtt New'/ocHicks'j 
 
 692 12 o 
 
 440 
 
 22 2 7 
 
 ;i8 iS 7 
 
 1? s: d.- I. s. d 
 
 100 o o • 
 
 127- 9 o 
 
 22 I I o 
 
 o 4 
 
 Prifon. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 Hall. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 15 o o 
 
 54 12 o 
 
 51 10 6 
 
 Coals, 
 Fees, Sac. 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 10 4 o 
 iS s 6 
 
 55 19 2 
 
 Salaries. 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 125 o o 
 
 Profecu- 
 ticr.s. 
 
 1. s. d. 
 
 31 II 8 
 
 20 00 
 84 15 5 
 
 227 9 o 84 II 4 15 o o 66 2 6 64 S S 125 © o 136 7 I 
 Balance due to Mr. Coaffivorth, N» XX. 
 Ditto, to Mr. Hiss^ - - - K" XXI. 
 
 Note, The Charge of 1 5 /. by Mr. Coatfivorth, is a falfe Entry ; the 
 Money never \\;i^ paid ; by which, after deducing the 
 Balance ot 4/. 4J. a Lofs accrued of - - .. 
 
 10 16 o 
 
 NUMB,
 
 r 65 ] 
 
 •AA 
 
 U kl 
 
 iR J
 
 166] 
 NUMB. XXII. 
 
 An Account of Money called Colt- Money , ( he'tng the 
 
 to the 6th of 
 
 1. s. d. 
 ToCafli paid into theClerkoi'thePeace'sHands, by the Juftices thera-^ 
 
 felves, on their fifft Appearance at Seflion.., and for Titles of Honour, f j^ ^^ ^ 
 Marriages, and on Places, a Guinea each, as C 
 
 Per Fol. (I.) in the Clerk of the Peace's Book -J 
 PerFol. (2.) - ... - 
 
 Per Kol. (3.) ----- 
 
 Per Fol. (4.) 
 
 PerFol. (5.) 
 
 Per Fol. (6.) - . - 
 
 PerFol. (7.) - - - 
 
 PerFol. (8) - - - - 
 
 Per Fol. (J.) - ? - - 
 
 i3 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 «9 
 
 »9 
 
 
 
 19 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 132 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 276 
 
 6 
 
 10
 
 16?] 
 
 'Proper Monies of the "Jiiftices) from December Seffions 1727 
 April, 1737. 
 
 By fundry Disburfements out of the Colt Money, by the 
 Clerk of the Peace, for extraordinary Charges for 
 Dinners and Wine in January Seflions, over and above 
 the Statute Allowance, paid ky the Sheriffs, for 24. 
 Juftices a-day, at 4^. each, and 2/. the Clerk of the 
 Peace, as fettled by the Treafury, as per Fol (1 ) in 
 the Clerk of the Peace's Book 
 
 By ditto as per ?\. (2.) 
 
 By ditto as per Fol. (3.) 
 
 By ditto as per Fol. (4.J 
 
 By ditto as per Fol. (5.) 
 
 By ditto as per Fol. (6.) 
 
 By ditto as per Fol. (7.) 
 
 By ditto as per Fol. (8.) 
 
 By ditto as per Fol. (8.) '■jlz. 
 
 d. 
 
 * • 
 
 ♦ 
 
 16 10 
 
 • 
 
 • • 
 
 II 16 6 
 
 • 
 
 • 
 
 14 5 10 
 
 • 
 
 > • 
 
 ij 10 8 
 
 • 
 
 > 
 
 1360 
 
 « 
 
 • 
 
 12 8 6 
 
 I 
 
 4 
 1 • 
 
 II 2 
 
 E < 
 
 • 
 
 826 
 
 Dec. 31. 1734. Paid to Richard J upp. Carpenter, purfuant to 
 an Order of hieflions in Decen-her, 1734. ^°^ 
 making Uicki's-Hdl mort commodious and 
 warm, and other Altdtions - 
 
 7*419. 1735. Paid to the {z^i RLhard Jufp,-^\xxi\imt to an 
 Order of Seflions, in A/ay 173;, more 
 Paid him more by the fame Order, an Al- 
 lowance made for his low Prices 
 
 /. 
 
 d. 
 
 too 00 
 
 SO 
 5 
 
 o o 
 
 By extraordinary Charges for Wine, as per Fol. (o.) 
 By ditto as per Fol. (10.) ..... 
 By ditto as per Fol. (11.) . . . , 
 
 Due to Balance in the Clerk of the Peace's Hands 
 
 2 18 
 
 o 
 o 
 9 19 9 
 
 3 15 3 
 
 274 10 I o 
 1 16 o 
 
 276 6 10
 
 [*8] 
 
 NUMB. XXIII. 
 
 An Account lheix;hig, that the JnJIiccs have laid out more on 
 
 out of the County Rents, 
 
 CHARGE. 
 
 /. s. d. I. t. i 
 
 April i~. 1 729. To Cafh paid by Mr. Cotjhuorih, for Profe- 
 
 cutions . , . 20 o o • 
 
 AW. 14. To ditto paid more for ditto . . 21 o o 
 
 Jufy z-i^io. To ditto paid more for ditto . . 10 11 8 
 
 By Mr. Higgs. 
 
 '•-.'.. . i. i. d, 
 
 ivfc 1 731. . To ditto p^ himfelf, as per his Account, for 
 C) , , Profecutio/is . . . . 58 6 4 
 
 o , To ditto paiji Mr. Aftf/i^iuw, for ditto . 10 5 o 
 
 ■A/ay 5, 1732. To ditto paifi Mr. Rolfe, for ditto . . i o O 
 
 June II. 1734- To ditto paid Mr Darnel, for Horfe-hire and 
 Expences about the Eleflion for Reprefenta- 
 tives for MiiliiLfex . . . 530 
 
 1 o ditto paid 'fhomas WllUvHn, for Advertife- 
 
 ments, upon the fame Account . . 1 1 1 1 o 
 
 0<?. 27. Todi:to p. id Mr. Hijr^s, for profeculing il%f/ 
 
 Peteri for Extortion . . . 20 1 7 8 
 
 c o To ditto paid Mr. Mnthe-u.-s, upon the fame Ac- 
 count . , . 1465 
 
 5111 S 
 
 
 10 
 
 Balance 
 
 
 99 
 
 <J 
 
 ji 
 
 r)iie 
 
 
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 4 
 
 I 
 
 3 
 
 t 
 1 i 
 
 
 
 '55 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 01
 
 [69 J 
 
 Hicks's-Hall out of their own Money, than the SeJJlons ordered 
 not fir iBly payable thereout. 
 
 DISCHARGE. 
 
 /. /. d. 
 
 Dec. 5. 1734. By Ca(h paid by the Juftices out of their Colt Money on 
 
 Hicis's-Ha//, per Order of SefTions . . 100 o o 
 
 M«y23. 1735. By ditto paid out of ditto, for the like Service . 55 5 o 
 
 '55 5 o 
 
 ifttt. By this Account it appears, that the Juftices have 
 paid out of their own Pockets 4/. 3 j. 1 1 X 
 more than the Seffions ordered to be paid 
 out of the County Rents. 
 
 [S]
 
 [ 70] 
 N U M B. XXIV. 
 
 Houfe of 
 CHARGE. 
 
 /. s. d. 
 1717. To a Rate for the Houfe of Correftioi, Thomas Burdiu, Efq; Trea- 
 
 furer ...... 800 o o 
 
 /. s. rf, 
 HoU, By Sir Daniel Dolini's Account, there appears 
 to have been laid out on the Houfe of Cor- 
 reftion . . . . 79 19 o 
 
 Borrow'd for Repairs of H/'f;J//-i!fa// . . 20 i 3 5 
 
 100 12 5 
 -■ — — ^ 
 And no Rate has been made fmce till that 
 for 200/. in 1735, removed into the 
 King^s Bench.
 
 C 7< ] 
 
 Correciion- 
 
 DISCHARGE, 
 
 /. s. d 
 
 1722 By fundry Payments, as per his Account, dated tlie 1 2th Ftbmaiy, 
 
 1722 . • • . • • • '>' 1- > 
 
 By Deficiencies, rviz. 
 
 i. s. d. 
 
 Wejlmitt/er DWifioa * • ■ 276 6 u 
 
 //(7/ier» Divifion . ' • - 5^ 4 ^ 
 
 Kenjitigton Divifion i , 42 o 8 
 
 To-xuer Divifion > • .5121 
 
 Spelthorne HviXiA^ei i . - 16 J3 4 
 
 /7f.w»r//& Hundred : ! i 11 15 10 
 
 — 406 I 3 4 
 
 699 7 7 
 By Balance paid -to ^i\ Daniel Dolins, which he? ,00 ,2 5 
 chargeth hirafelf with in his Account 5 
 
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 NUMB. XXV. 
 
 Simon Mitchell, Efq-, - - ^r. 
 
 ^an. 7 1734. To a Rate made by the faid Simon Mitchell and Rolert 
 •^ ^-^/W//, Efqs; (tv/oof his Majefty's Jul'hces of t:-.e Psace 
 
 for theCouiitv ofMddkfex) on t!ie Hundred o^Ojfulfcn, 
 for r.-iifing 64 / 16^ S ^. levied on the Goods of Mr John 
 l^'hife, by virtue of a Judgment and Execution tor a 
 Robbery committed in the laid Hundred, 'viz. 
 
 I. s. d. 
 
 On JFefminfter Divifion - - - 34 o i J. 
 
 Toa-o- Dr/ifion - - - - ''9 1 ^k 
 
 Fiiubiiry Divifion - -■ ~ 7 '5 'c|- 
 
 Kenjifigtoi Divifion - - 5 5' 
 
 ii>/4or» Divifion - - - - 19 10 ii|- 
 
 i. 
 
 S6
 
 [75 3 
 
 Ter Contra : : : Cr. 
 
 I. s. d 
 
 Mtir. 5, 1 :34. Paid Mr. John IVl^ite, being all the Money at that time 
 
 collet-ed - - - - - - 48 ; 4i 
 
 Jptil 'i. i;3J- P;iid to ditto in full - - ~ - •<» 9 ?i 
 
 64 16 S 
 
 Paid I'homas Br.ty, for his Trouble in making the Rate 
 
 Warrants - - - -..,-_ 
 
 Feb. 1 3. Paid to Mr. Hiags, Genera! Trcafurer for the County, by 
 
 Order of SelFions - - - - 17 o oi 
 
 85 6 5f 
 
 Charged on the Liberty of the 'fc'wer JJ'ithin and Without, 
 the Old JrtHltry Ground, and 'frinity Alhiories, which 
 w as not collected - - - --014& 
 
 86 o 5i- 
 
 liote. The Hundred of OJfu';^on was indebted to the 
 equity ,for the CIm-As in the Defence of an 
 Aftion com.nenc'-d ^g:iinl) [In; h\A Hundred, for 
 a Robb-ry rn t'lt- Valii- ot 5 ; -. /. which Sum the 
 Hundred ;aved bv thai Dsf.ncc.
 
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 NUMB. XXVL 
 
 Pl'ita coram D no Rege apud Weftm' 
 de Termi*o Pci Mich'is Anno R ni 
 D ni Georgii S'c'di nunc Regis Magn 
 Britan' &c. Quarto. 
 
 MEmorandum quotl die Veneris prox' poll: tres 
 Septi'anas f'c'i Mich'is ifto eodem Tcrmino 
 coram D'no Rege apud Weftm' Ven' Thomas Robe Ar' &C 
 Joh'es Matthews Ar' Cl'ic' Mercat* Hofpitii D'ni Regis per 
 Middleton Howard Attorn' fuu' et pr'tuler' hie in Cur' d'c'i 
 D'ni Regis tunc ib'm quand'm Billam fuam verfus Ric'um Nor- 
 wood in Cuftod' Marr' <5cc. de pl'ito tr'nfgr' fup' Cafum et func 
 plf'g' de pr'lequend' fcil't Joh'es Doe et Ric'us Roe qure quid'm 
 Bill.i fequit' in hasc Verba if. Midd'x {[\ Thomas Robe Ar' et 
 Joh'es Matthews Ar' Cl'ic' Mercat' Hofpitii D'ni Regis querunt* 
 de Ric'o Norwood in Cuftod' Marr' Marefc' D'ni Regis coram 
 ipfo Rege exiftcn' pro eo videl't quod cum deciino die Odobc* 
 Anno D'ni Miil'imo Septingent'imo vicefimo nono apud Paroch' 
 f'c'i Clementis Danor' in Com' pr'd' quodd'm Colloquiu' Motu* 
 dC h itum fuit per &c int' eofd'm Thoniam 6c Joh'em & pr'did* 
 Ric'um de & conc'nen* Circuitu a Refidenc' D'ni Regis per quem 
 Cl'icus Mercat' Hofpitii D'ni Regis pro tempore exiiien' de jure 
 exercere poteft Officiu' fuu' Cl'ici Mercat' Hofpitii ipfius D'ni 
 Regis & fup' CoUoquio illo iidem Thomas <5c Joh'es adtunc & 
 ib'm affirmabant quod Cl'icus Mercat' Hofpitii D'ni Regis pro 
 tempore exiften' de jure exercere poteft Ofticin' fuu' Cl'ici Nler- 
 cat' Hofpitii ipfius D'ni Regis per Circuitu' duodecim Milliar'a 
 Refidenc' D'ni Regis (Except' infra Civitat' London) live per 
 aliq'm partem Circuitus ill' quam quidem affirmac'on' idem Ric'us 
 adtunc & ib'm denegabat afhrmando quod Cl'icus Mercat' Hof- 
 pitii D'ni Regis pro tempore exiften' non poteft de jure exer- 
 cere Officiu' fuu' Cl'ic' Mercat' Hofpitii D'ni Regis ultra Cir- 
 cuitu' ducent' pedum a Refidenc' D'ni Regis i3c fuper inde iiden> 
 Thomas 6c Joh'es ad Inftanc' 6c Requific'on' ejufdem Ric'i ad- 
 tunc Si. ib'm folvere eidem Ric'o vigjnt' folid' legalis Monet' 
 Magn' Britan' 6c in Confiderac'one inde idem Ric'us noftea fcil't 
 eifdem die & anno apud paroch' pr'd' in Com' pr'd' fuper fe 
 aifampfit 6c eifdem Thorn' 6c Joh'i adtunc <3v ib'm tidelii' pr'niifit 
 
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 quod ipfe idem Ric'us folyet eifdem Thorns 8c Joh'i quadragint' 
 folid' li'lis legalis monet' fi Cl'icus Mercat' Hofpiiii D'ni Regis 
 exercere potelt officia fuu Cl'ici Mercat' Hofpitii ipfius D'ni 
 Regis per Circuitu' duodeciin Milliar' a Refidenc' D'ni Regis 
 (except' infra Civitat London) five per aliq'm partem Circuitus 
 ill' ultra Circuitu' ducent' pedum a Refidenc' D'ni Regis 6c iidem 
 Thomas Sc Joh'es in f 'do dicunt quod Cl'icus Mercat' Hofpitii 
 D'ni Regis exercere poteft officiu' fuu' Cl'ici Mercat' Hofpitii ipiius 
 D'ni Regis per Circuitu' duodecim Milliar' a Refiden' D'ni Regis 
 (except' infra Civitat' London) five per aliq'm partem Circuitus ill' 
 eumq' etiam poftea fcil't die 5c anno fupr'dict' apud Paroch' pr'did' 
 in Com' prsdid' quoddam al' Colloquiu' motu' 6c h'itum fuit 
 per & int' eofdem Thomam (3v ]oh'em & prsdicl' Ric'um de & 
 conc'rnenc' Feod' Officii prsdid' 8i fuper Colloquio ill' iidem 
 Thomas & Joh'es adtunc & ib'ra aff.rmabant quod Cl'icus Mer- 
 cat' Hofpitii D'ni Regis de jure intitulat' exiftit ad Feoda pro 
 examinac'one 5c vifu' ponderu' Sc menfurar' Officio fuo prasditft' 
 pertincn' fcil't ad Feod' quatuor denar' bis in Anno folvend' per 
 quemlibet perfon' infra Circuit' pra^dift' refiden' (except' infra 
 Civitat' London) ac ponderib' tv Menfur' aut ponderib' vel 
 Menfur' in Com'rcio pro lucro ib'm uten' pro vifu <3c exami- 
 nac'one om' ponderu' dc menlurar' ponderu' vel menfurar' hu'- 
 inodi perfon' refpeclive fic ufitat' quam quidem affirmac'on' idem 
 Ric'us adtunc 6c ib'm denegabat ^^ fuperindc iidem Thom.as 6C 
 joh'es ad fp'ial inftanc' 6c Requific'on' ejufdem Ric'i adtunc &c 
 ib'm folver' eidem Ric'o al' quadragint' folid' fi'lis kgalis monet* 
 6c in Conliderac'on' inde idem Ric'us poftea fcil't eifdem Die & 
 Anno apud paroch' praidift' in Cora' pnTdiel' fuper fe aflum.pfit 
 6c eifjem Thorns 6c Joh'i adtunc &: ib'm fidelit' promifit quod 
 ipfe idem Ric'us folvet eifdem Thon^^E &i Joh'i al' quadragint' 
 folid' fi'lis legalis monet' fi Cl'icus Mercat' Hofpitii D'ni Regis 
 de jure intitulat' exiftit ad Feoda prx:dicl' pro cxaminac'one &c 
 vifu ponderu' C\ menfurar' Officio fuo prxdid:' pertinen' 6c 
 iidem Thomas 6c Joh'es in f clo dicunt quod Cl'icus Mercat' 
 Hofpitii D'ni Regis intitulat' exiftit ad Feod' pnedid' pro cxa- 
 minac'one be villi ponderu' 6: menfurar' Officio fuo prxdid' 
 pertinen' idem tamen Ric'us fep'al' promiffion' 6c alfumpc'on' 
 fuas priedid* in forma piu'did' fadas mi'e curans fed machinans 
 dc fraudulent' intendens eofdem Thomam Sc Joh'em in hac parte 
 callide (X fubdole decipere 6c defraudare pntdid' fep'al' denar' 
 fam'as per ipfum Ric'um eifdem Thomas 6c Joh'i fic ut pra?fert' 
 folvend* feu aliq'm partem inde eifdem Thom^e 6C Joh'i (licet 
 p;r ipfos ad hoc faciend' idem Ric'us poftea fcil't decimo fepti-
 
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 mo Die 05:obr' Anno fupradift' apud Paroch' prajdieT in Com' 
 pr.x'did' rcquilJt' fuiilet) nondu' folvit icd ill' cis folvcrc hue 
 ufque omnino rccufavit & adhuc rccufat ad dampnu' ipfor' Tho- 
 n:2 & Joh'is centum folid' & indc producunt fecl'm die. 
 
 Et prajid' Ric'us per Franc'uni Lcnthall Attor' fuuin ven' 
 &C defend' vim & injur' quando' £<:c. (X dicit quod pra'didi 
 Thomas ^ joh'es acconcm luara pra:did' verfus cum li'cre ll-u 
 manuten're non debcnt quia quoad primam promiflion' dc af- 
 fump'con' in Narr' pradid' menc'onat' idem Ric'us dicit quod 
 bene (3c v'rum eft quod ipfe idem Ric'us airumnfir Tuper i'c modo 
 ^ forma pr ut iidem Thomas <?< Joh'es fup:rius inde vcifus 
 eum queruntur fed idem Ric'us ukerius dicit quod Cl'icusMer-' 
 cat' IlL^fpiiii D'ni Regis de jure non cxercere poteft Of^icium 
 fuum Cl ici Mercat' Hofpitii ipfius D'ni Regis per Circuitu' 
 duodecim Milliar' a Refidcnc' D'ni Regis live p.'r al quaui 
 partem Circuitus ill' ultra Circuitu' ducent' pedum a I'.efidenc' 
 D'ni Regis &c de hoc ponit fe fuper pr'iaa) ^' prar'didi 'i'homas 
 6c Joh'es inde fi'lit' Et quoad prumifiion' 5c afTunip'con' pradid' 
 in Narrac'on pra-did' fup'rius ult' menc'onat' idem Ric'us dicit 
 quod bene & v'rum eft quod ipfe idem Ric'us alFumpfit fuper 
 fc modo & forma pr'ut per narrac'onem pradid' fup'riUs in ea 
 parte fupponit' fed idem Ric'us ukerius dicit quod Cl'icus Mer- 
 cat' Hofpitii D'ni Regis de jure non intitubt' cxillit ad Fcoda 
 prcedid' pro cxaminac'one ^ vifu pondcru' ^ menfurar' Officio 
 fuo praidid' pertincn' <S: de hoc etiam ponit fe fuper pr'iam c^ 
 prididi Thomas & Joh'es indc h'lit' I'o tam ad triand' exit' ill' 
 quem al' exit' int' putcs prpjdid' fup'rius jund' ven' inde jur' 
 coram D'no Rege apud Weftm' Die Sab'ti prox' poft quinden' 
 f'c'i Martini 6c qui nee dC'\ ad Recogn' 6«:c. quia tam 6cc< 
 Idem dies dat' eft partib' pradid' ib'm 6cc. 
 
 Prita coram D'no Rcge apud Wcftm' 
 de Termino Cci Mich'is Anno R'ni 
 D'ni Georgii S'di nunc Regis Magn* 
 Britan &c. Quarto. 
 
 Midd'xJjr.^\Jr int' Thomam Robe Ar' c\ Joh'em Matthews 
 J Ar' (Cleric' Mercat' Hofpitii D'ni Regis per 
 Middleton Howard Attorn' fuum Q^ier' &i Ri'cum Norwood de 
 pl'ito tr'fgr' fuper Cafutn ponit' in refp'cu' coram D'no Rege apud 
 Weftm' ufq-, Diem Sab'ti prox' poft Odab' f'c'i Hiliai'^nili di. 
 
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 JecT (5c fidelis D ni Regis Rob'tus Raymond Mil* Capitalis Juftic' 
 D'ni Regis ad plita in Cur' ipfius D'ni Regis coram ipfo Rege 
 tenend' afiign' prius Die Lunas tricefimo Die Novembris apud 
 Weftin' prxdicT in Com' Midd'x in magna Aula pl'itor' ib'm per 
 formam Statut' &c. ven' pro def'cu jur' &zc. I'o vie' h'eat Cor- 
 pora ^c. Idem Dies dat' eft partib' pr^edicV ib'm die 
 
 XXIX Die Jan' 1730, D. per Car' Haddocke. 
 POSTEA Die '5c loco infra content' coram Rob'to Raymorid 
 Mir Capital' Juftic' infrafcript' aflbciat'fibi Joh'e Smith Gen' pir 
 formam Statut' &ic. ven' t'm infra no'iat' Thomas Robe Ar' (X 
 Joh'es Matthews Ar' (Cleric' Mercat' Hofpitii D'ni Regis) q'm 
 infrafcript' Ric'us Norwood per Attorn' fuos infra content' <3c jur' 
 jur' undo infra tit menc'o exadl' quid'm eor' videl't Henr' God- 
 dard Will'us Perkins Will'us Harding: Will'us Devenifii Toh'cs 
 AValker Thomas Baxter Will'us Pritchard Rces Thomas Johes 
 Wilion tv Benjamin' Fofter ven' cn: in jur' ill' jurat' exiftunt tN: 
 quia refid' jur' ejufdem jurat' non comparuer' lo al' de circum- 
 Itanc' per vie' Com' Midd'x infrafcript' ad hoc el'ci ad requjfi- 
 c'onem pr^idiclor' Thoma; Robe 6c Joh'is Matthews ac per 
 Mandat' Capitalis Juftic' prsdift' de novo apponunt' quor' noil 
 panello infrafcript' affilant' fc'd'm formam Stitut' in hu'mo'i Ca- 
 fu edit' 8c provis' qui quidem jur' fic de novo appo'it' vidJ't 
 Joh'es Prater & Theophilus Proifer exaft' fcil't ven' q'm ad ve- 
 rirat' de infra content' fimulcum al' jur' prxdid' prius unpannel- 
 lat' dicend' el'ci trial' dC jurat' die' luper facr'um fuu' quo^d pro- 
 miflion' dC aHlimpc'on' pr^did' int'ius primo men'conat' (;uod 
 Cl'icus Mercat' Flofpitii D'ni Regis exercere poteft Officiu' fuu' 
 Cl'ici Mercat' Hofpitii ipfius D'ni Regis per Circuitu' duodecim 
 MilHar' a Refidenc' D'ni Regis (except' infra Civitat' London) 
 prout prc-edict' Thomas Robe (?v Joh'es Matthews interius affir- 
 maver'^C affidunt dampna ip'or' Thom:^ Rcbe (5c Joh'is Matthews 
 occ'one non performac'on' prima; promillion' ^ alfumpc'cn' ill' 
 ultra mis' <5c cuftag' fua per ipfcs circa fe*fl'ra fuara in hac parte 
 appo'it' ad vigint' ibUd' c5C pro mis' & cuftag' ill' ad quadragiijt' 
 folid' ac quoad promiflion' & allump'con' in Narr' int'rius ult' 
 menc'onat' iidem jur' die' quod Cl'icus Mercat' Hofpitii D'ni 
 Regis non intituht' exiflit ad Feod' quatuor denar' bis in An- 
 no folvend' per qiiemlibet perfon' infra circuit' pra'dicl' redden' 
 ('except' infra Civitat' London) ac ponderib' ^ mcnfur' aut pon- 
 derib' vel menfur' in Com'rcio pro Lurro ib'm uten' pro vifu 6c 
 eximinac'one om' ponderu' «3c menfurar' aut ponderu' vel menfu- 
 rjr' hu'mo'i perfon' refpedive fic ufitat' prout pradid' Thomas 
 Robe (3c Joh'es Matthews im'rius affirmavcr' I'o t5vc. 
 
 NUMB.
 
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 NUMBER XXVIL 
 
 PLEAS before our Lord, the Ki^g ^^ Weftminfter, of Michael- 
 mas-Term, in the Seventh Tear of the Reign of our Sovereign 
 Lord George the Second^ by the Grace of God of Great Britain, 
 France and Ireland, Kjngt Defender of the Faith. 
 
 HERETOFORE (that is to fay) on Monday the Twenty- 
 feventh Day ofJugaJl, in the Seventh Year of the Reign 
 of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, King oCGreat Britain, 
 France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, at the General 
 Seflion of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord tlie King, holden for 
 the County of M'.ddlefex, at Hicks'' s-Hall in St. fohn-Jireet, ia 
 the County aforefaid; Before IViUiam Cowper^ William Dobyns, 
 Alexander Garret j Andrew Osburne, Efqrs; and other their Fel- 
 lows Juftices of our faid Lord the King, afligned to keep the 
 Peace in the faid County ; and alfo to hear and determine di- 
 verfe Felonies, Trefpafles, and other Mifdemeanors committed 
 in the fame County, upon the Oath of Twelve Jurors, good 
 and lawful Men of the faid County of Middle/ex, then and 
 there fworn and charged to inquire for our faid Lord the King, 
 for the Body of the faid County : It was prefented, that Edward 
 Refitt, late of the Parifli of St. Mary Matfellon, otherwife 
 ff'hitechapely in the County of Middlefex, Yeoman, on the 
 Fourteenth Day of J»ne, in the Seventh Year of the Reign of 
 our Sovereign Lord George the Second, King of Great Britain, 
 France ^nd Irelandy Defender of the Faith, at the Parifli afore- 
 faid, in the County aforefaid, by Colour of being Servant and 
 Agent to Thomas Robe, and Charles Peter, Efquires, Clerk of 
 the Market of the Houfhold of our faid Lord the King, un- 
 lawfully, unjuftly, and extorfively did demand, receive, and 
 have of one IVilltam Cole, the Sum of Fourteen Pence ot law- 
 ful Money of Great Britain, for and as a Fee for e>gamining, 
 marking and fealing Five Qiiart Pots made of Pewter, Seven 
 Pint Pots made of Pewter, and Two Half Pint Pots made of 
 Pewter ; whereas in Truth and in Faft, there was then no 
 fuch Fee due to the faid Edward Refiit, or to the faid Clerk of 
 the Market in that behalf, to the great Damage andOppreffion 
 of the faid fVilliamCole, a;id againftthe Peace of our faid Lord 
 the King, his Crown and Dignity. Wliich faid Indidment 
 our faid Lord the King, afterwards, fnr certain Reafons, Iiath 
 caufed to be brought before him, to be determined according 
 to the Law and Cuftom of England : Wherefore the Sheritf of 
 the faid County is commanded, that he omit not upon Account 
 of any Liberty in his Bailiwick, but that he caufe him to come 
 to anfwer our faid Lord the King, for theTrefpafs, Contempt, 
 
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 and Extortion aforefaid : And now, that is to fay, on Tuefday 
 next after Three Weeks from the Day of Saint Michael in the 
 fame Term, before our faid Lord the King at Weftminjiery 
 comes t!ie faid Edward Rejitt, hy 'John Matthews his Attorney, 
 and having heard the faid Indiftment read, faith, He is not 
 guilty thereof-, and hereupon he puts himfelfupoa the Country, 
 And James Burroiv^ Efquire, Coroner, and Attorney of our faid 
 Lord the King, in the Court of our faid Lord the King, beiorc 
 the King himfeU, who profecutcs for our faid Lord the King, 
 in this Behalf, does the like ; Therefore let a jury theicupoa, 
 come before our faid Lord the K; i^^, inFifxcr; Days from the 
 Day of Saint Martin, whercfoever he ihall be then in Efjgla/idy 
 by wliom the Truth of the Matter may be the better known, 
 and who are not of Kin to the faid Edward Refitt, to recognize 
 upon their Oath, whether the faid Edward Refitt be guilty of 
 the Trefpafs, Contempt and Extortion, aforefaid, or not ; be- 
 caufe as well the faid James Burrow^ Efquire, who profecures 
 for our faid Lord the King in this behalf, as the {?.iA Edward 
 Refitt, have thereupon put themfelves on the faid Jury ; the fame 
 Day is given as well to the faid James Burrow, Efquire, who 
 profecutes for our faid Lord the King in this behalf, as to the 
 faid Edward Refitt : At which Day, before our Lord the King 
 at PTefiminJler, came as well the faid James Burrow^ Efquire, 
 who profecutes for our faid Lord the King in this behalf, as 
 the faid Edward Reftt by his Attorney aforefaid ; and the 
 Sheriff of the faid County returned the Names o^ Twelve 
 Jurors, none of whom ckme; Therefore the Sheriff of the faid 
 County is commanded, that he omit not upon account of any 
 Liberty in his Bailiwick, but that he diltrain them by all their 
 Lands and Chattels in his Bailiwick, fo that neither they, nor 
 any one for them, do put their Hands to the fame, until he 
 have another Command from our faid Lord the King for that 
 Purpofe ; And that he anfwer to our faid Lord the King for the 
 Iffues thereof, fo that he have their Bodies before our faid Lord 
 the King in eight Days, from the Day of Saint Hillary^ where- 
 foever he fhall be then in E»gla»d: or before the beloved and 
 faithful of our faid Lord the King, Ph/ltp Lord Hardwicke, 
 Chief Julfice of our faid Lord the King, afTigned to hold Pleas 
 before our faid Lord the King, if he ihall come before that 
 Time, on Tbnrfday next after the End of the Term, at Wefi- 
 minficr in the faid County of MiddUfcx^ in the great Hall of 
 Pleas there, according to the Form of the Statute in fuch Cafe 
 made and provided, to recognize upon their Oath, whether the 
 faid Edward Refill be guilty of theTi'cfpafs, Contempt and Ex- 
 tortion aforefaid, or not, in default of the Jury aforefaid, who 
 came not in Fifteen Days, from the Day of Saint Mantn afore- 
 faid ;
 
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 faid; therefore let the Sheriff have the Bodies of tlie Jurors 
 aforefaid, at the fame Time and Place accordingly, to recognize 
 in Form aforefaid ; the fame Day is giverj as well to the faid 
 'James Bnrrow^ Efquire, wh6 profecutes for our faid Lord the 
 King in this behalf, as to the faid Ed.vaid Rcfii. 
 
 Afterwards, at the Day and Place witliin mentioned, before 
 the within-namcd PhiUp Lord Hardmcke, Chief Juftice of our 
 Lord the King, affigncd to hold Pleas before the iving himfelf, 
 Carlton Hajward^ Gentleman, being alfociated to the laid Chief 
 Jullice, according to the Form of tlie Statute in fuch Cafe made 
 and provided, came as well the within-named James Burrow., 
 Efq; who profecutes for r!ie faid Lord the King in thi^ behatf, 
 as the within-named Ed:vard Refity by his Attorney witliin- 
 mentioncd ; and the Jurors of the Jury within-mentioned being 
 called, fome of them (to wit) Hj/try Sheppard, Job>! fVatfoHy 
 l\athamjl iVeft^ J^^-"' Green., John H^jwhittlCf Richard Ezians, 
 Ihomus Meads.) John Jenkins, Feta Jrnoldj George I Vyan. Chrt- 
 fopher Bavinjiton, and Thomas Brooks., being drawn out of the 
 Pannel according to the Form of the Statute in fuch Cafe lately 
 made and provided, came and fworn upon the faid Jury ; 
 Whereupon publick Proclamation is made here in Court for 
 the faid Lord the King, as the Cuftom is, that if tlsure be any 
 one who would inform the Chief Julf ice aforefaid, the King' 
 Serjeant, the King's Attorney General, or the Jurors of the 
 Jury aforefaid of the Premifes within contained, he fhould 
 come forth and fhould be lieard ; and Thomas Abnej^ Efquire, 
 offered himfelf on the behalf of the faid Lord the King to do 
 this; whereupon the Court here proceeded to the taking of 
 the Jury aforefaid, by the Jurors aforefaid now appearing for 
 the Purpofe aforefaid, who being chofen, tried, and fworn to 
 fpeak the Truth of and concerning the Premifes within men- 
 tioned, fay, upon their Oath, that the faid Edward Refitt is 
 Guilty of the Premifes within charged upon him in the within 
 written Indictment in Manner and Form as by the faid In- 
 diftment within mentioned againft him is fuppofed. 
 
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 NUMBER XXVIII. 
 
 to the Honourable the C O M M O N S of Great BritatM, in 
 PARLIAMENT Aflembled ; 
 
 I. The humble Petition of the Cburch-fVardens, Overfeers of the 
 Poor, ani great Numbers of the Inhabitants of the feveral 
 Parifhes. Liberties, Hamlets, and Ditifions, in the County of 
 Middleiex, in behalf of themf elves and the rejl of the Parijbss 
 in the faid County j 
 
 Humbly Sheiveth, 
 
 THAT the Juftices of the Peace for the faid County 
 of Middlefex, having for many Years laft paft levied 
 very large Sums of Money on } our Petitioners, under Co- 
 lour of pafling Vagrants, Repairing Bridges and Gaols, and 
 Relieving Maimed Soldiers and Mariners, and divers other 
 Pretences ; And your Petitioners having very juit and rea- 
 fonable Grounds to believe, that great Part of the faid Money 
 has not been applied for the Purpofes for which it was pre- 
 tended to be raifed, but that the fame has been notorioufly 
 mifapplied and embezzeled, as your Petitioners do not doubt 
 but they can be able to make appear, to the Satisfadion of 
 this Honourable Houfe ; by the Means of which Mifapplication 
 and Embezzelments, as aforefaid, the refpe£tive Pariflies and 
 Divifions of this County have been grievoufly burthened and 
 opprefled with very heavy and (as your Petitioners moft hum- 
 bly conceive") illegal Taxes and AlfcfTments ; and your Peti- 
 tioners having no Etfedual Method of Redrefs againft the 
 Perfons concerned in the Raifing, Receiving, and Difpofing of 
 the faid Money, nor againft fuch Violation of Truft and In- 
 vafion of Property, as your Petitioners complain of, fave only 
 by an Application to Parliament, without whofe Aid and In- 
 terpofition they apprehend themfelves cxpofed to the like Hard- 
 fhips and Impofitions for the future : 
 
 M''herefore your Petitioners humbly ho^e this Honourable 
 Houfe will take the Premijes into Cor/f deration, and 
 grant them Juch Relief as they in their Wifdom and 
 J u It ice jhall fee meet- 
 
 And your Petitioners fliall ever pray. 
 
 2. I am ordered to give Notice, That on Tuefday next, at Ten 
 a- Clock, a Veftry will be held, to conlider of proper Mea- 
 fures to be taken in didcr for tlic Recovery of the Vagrant- 
 Money which has been illegally railed ; and likewife to take 
 it into Confideration what further Proceedings is ncceflary to 
 
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 be carried on in relation to tliat, and any other Grievances of 
 the like Nature. 
 
 To lay before the Gentlemen, what Method is to be taken 
 for the Recovery of the lall Rate (levied for 800 /.) that was 
 deemed illegal, that the refpedive Parifhes may take proper 
 Refolutions at their next Veftry, to order immediate Prolecu- 
 tions againft fuch Perfons as refufe the faid Money. 
 
 A Motion to be made, That the Inhabitants come to a Re- 
 folution to make an humble Application to Parliament, in Or- 
 der for an Inquiry and Redrefs of feveral Sums of Money 
 levied on the faid Parifh, under Pretence of pafling Vagrants, 
 asalib for the Maintenance of Maimed Soldiers and Mariners, 
 and for the Relief of Prifoners in the Marjhalfea and K/^g's- 
 Bench. 
 
 5. A Copy of what intended to be entered in the Vejiry-Bcok of 
 Clerkenwell on Tuefday next. 
 
 That Mr. late Church-Warden of this Parifh, 
 
 make a Demand on Mr. the then High-Conftable 
 
 of Divifion, for fo much of the Money as he 
 
 .paid to the 'faid Mr. on the laft Rate that was 
 
 made for the pafTing Vagrants for this County, which Rate 
 has been adjudged Illegal by the Court oi Kjng^s- Bench ; and in 
 cafe of Refufal of the faid Mr. ^ that then Mr. 
 
 profecute him for the fame : And that he fhall 
 hQ indempnified by this Parifh for any Lofs and Charge that 
 he may be put to on that Account. 
 
 15th March 1735. 
 
 At a Quarter-SelTions of the Peace in the Year 1734. an 
 Order was made by the Juftices then and there prefent, for 
 the railing the Sum of 800/. on the County of Middlefex, for 
 Palfing, Conveying, and Maintaining Vagrants: After which 
 Alexander Clarke, then High-Conliable of Holborn Divifion, 
 received a Warrant, or Precept, under the Hand and Seal of 
 John HtggSy then Treafurer of fuch Monies, commanding him 
 the faid High-Conftable, to ifllie his Precepts to the feveral 
 Parilh- Officers within his Divifion, thereby to order and re- 
 quire the faid Parilh- Officers to raife and levy fuch Sums of 
 Money, for the Purpofes aforefaid, as was mentioned in the 
 faid High Conftable's Precept to them direftcd, as aforefaid, 
 by Virtue of which the Sum of 800/. has been raifed on the 
 County oi Middlefex \ amongft which was raifed and paid by 
 
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 the Inhabitants of Safron-Hilt^ Hatt on-Garden^ and Ely-Rents^ 
 in the Parifh of 5t. Andrew Holhorn^ in the faid County, the 
 Sum of 1 1 /. 14 J. 5 ^. ; upon which the Court oiKJn^s-Bemh 
 was moved, by Counfel, for a Certiorari to be allowed, to re- 
 move the faid Order into the faid Court, which was granted ; 
 and upon hearing the fame, the Court adjudged all the JulHces 
 Proceedings in raifing the (aid Sum of 800 /. to be illegal, aud 
 their Order to be quafhed. 
 
 ,Q. \^hat Method muft be taken to recover the faid Money, 
 or who muft or may be fued for the fame, and which is the 
 moft proper Means or Method for Recovery thereof? 
 
 The Order being quafhed, every Thing done in purfuance 
 of this being null and void, and every one who has had any 
 Money levied upon him under Colour of that Order, hath cer- 
 tainly a Right to recover it again from the Perfon who levied 
 it; for the Rate being unduly taxed, the Warrant of the 
 Juftices of the Peace for levying it will not excufe the Officer: 
 But as it would not, I think, be advifeable to bring a great 
 Number of Adions for trifling Sums, I apprehend the moft 
 proper Method for recovering this Money, would be for the 
 Perfon who coUefted it and paid it to Mr. Clarke^ to bring an 
 Adion againft Mr. Clarke for lb much as he paid him ; and Mr. 
 Clarke has his Remedy againft Mr. HiggSj if he thinks fit to 
 purfue it. 
 
 Cofy Ex. • . 
 N'' 7. Grafs-hr?, Coney-Courty 
 
 iWtfrf/>the nth, 173$. Richard Morley. 
 
 NUMB.
 
 NUMBER XXIX. 
 
 The CASE o/f/;« Taxes a»d As SE$$HiiiiTi rajfid af on 
 
 the County of Middlefex. 
 
 BY divers A£ls of Parliament * the Juftices of Peace in 
 their Seflions have Power to raife Money, and to ap- 
 point Receivers, who are to give Security and account with 
 them for the fame. 
 
 The Juftices of Peace for the County of Middlefex appoint 
 certain particular Gentlemen out of their Body, to tranfaft 
 all Matters relating to the Difpofition of all fuch Money, as is 
 raifed under the Authority of any of the faid AQs of Parlia- 
 ment, which Gentlemen are called the Lommittee of Accounts. 
 
 From the Year 1722 to the Year 17^4, both inclufive, the 
 County of Middlefex has been taxed at the Sum of Four Thou- 
 fand Pounds, for palfing Vagrants, and fo in the fame Propor- 
 tion for divers Years back ; tho* it can undeniably be made 
 appear, that mofl of the faid Pariflies pafs few or no Vagrants 
 at all ; that others, who have palTed them, have been obliged 
 to pay the Charge, out of the Poors Rate, having, upon Ap- 
 plication to the Juftices and their Treafurer, been refufed to be 
 allowed their Disburlcments for the fame ; and that even thoie 
 Purifhes that are on the Confines of the County, and are 
 fituated in the great Roads, upon which the Burthen of palling 
 Vagrants chiefly lies, have expended upon an Average no more 
 than Three Pounds a Year each, or thereabouts, for that 
 Purpofe, except theParifhes oiEndfield zn^South-mimsy which 
 have been ufuilly farmed out to Perfons, who have under- 
 taken by Agreement with the faid Juftices, to pafs all the Va« 
 g. ants brought them, for a certain Annual Sum. 
 
 That notwithllanding fuch large Sums of Money have been 
 continually levied on this County for the pafling Vagrants, and 
 fo much more, as it can be fully proved, than was ever applied 
 to that Purpofe, yet many of the Conftables, who have been 
 obliged by the Duty of their Offices to pafs fuch Vagrants as 
 
 * 14 Eliz. 5. Far the Hcliff of poor Priloners. 43 Eliz. 3. For the King's Bench and 
 Marjhalfca 43 Eliz 3 Mnim il Soldiers and Partner s igCar, 2, 4. For fitting P ri- 
 foiiers to iro,';. Ii ai-d 12 \^'m 3, 19 For Buitding und Reftzirirrg Gao/j. I An. 18. 
 For Repairing Brieves. I2An.23. For P,.:£ing, and i.iaintainiKgl'agtanti. t'efides thefe. 
 By 2 J L-iiz. 3. and 8 Geo. ?.. 2. iivo Juftices mat tax the Hundred for Robberies. By 
 J 3 and 14 Cat. 2. 3. De^uty-Licutt'ants may make a Ran for Trophy i'.lsney. 
 
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 nave been found Wandering within their rerpective Divilions, 
 have, after many fruitlefs and expenfive Applications to the 
 Juftipes in their Seflions, been put off under divers frivolous 
 Pretences, from having their neceffary Charges and Disburfe- 
 ments allowed them, and remain abfolutely unpaid to this 
 Day. 
 
 The Juftices who have ufually taken upon them to difpofe 
 of this Money, never kept any regular Account of the Difpo- 
 fition of the fame, before the Death of Mr. Cotefnerth^ for- 
 merly their Treafurer^ and likewife in the CommilTion of the 
 Peace, who died in December 17^0, and who, tho' he had not 
 been in that Office full Two Years, had imbezzled between 
 Seven and Eight Hundred Pounds of the Vagrant Money, 
 which was intirely loft to the County, no Security having 
 been taken from the faid Cotejworth for the fame, which it is 
 apprehended ought to have been done ; but tho' no fuch Ac- 
 count was kept till after the Death of the faid Cotefivorth, yet 
 there was a Committee of Accounts always appointed in the 
 fame manner as at prefent. 
 
 From the Year 172J to the Year 1727, both inclufive, the 
 Sum of One Thoufand Four Hundred Founds lias been raifed 
 by the faid Juftices for the Repairs of decay'd Bridges, tho* 
 there is only Brentford Bridge, and one half of Lhertjcy Bridge, 
 repaired at the Expence of the County of Mtddlefex, the other 
 half of Chertjey Bridge being repaired by the County of Surry, 
 and the other Bridges in the County of Middlefex, out oi the 
 Money arifing from the Turnpikes ; and tho' the faid Sum of 
 One Thoufand Four Hundred Pounds was raifed for the Ufes 
 abovementioned, yet the Charge of fuch Repairs, would not 
 have amounted to above nine Hundred Pounds or thereabouts, 
 if the feveral Workmen and Perfons imployed therein had been 
 all duly paid theiv jujl Demands, which on the Contrary they 
 have not been, nor have been able to obtain any Satisfadion 
 for the fame. 
 
 There have befides been feveral Sums raifed Yearly, for the 
 Relief of maimed Soldiers and Mariners, and likewife for the 
 Relief of the Prifoners in the Kj^^s-Bi'rtch and Marjoaljea^ and 
 the Poor in the Hofpitals and Alms-houfes, the gicatcll Part 
 if not the Whole of which Money has been iiitiiely diverted 
 to other Ufes, and no Account ever given how the fame has 
 been difpoted of. 
 
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 That the Money fo raifed, for the fevcral Purpofes above- 
 mentioned, has been notoiioufly mifapplied and imbcr.rled, 
 can be made appear, with the greateft Certainty that the Na- 
 ture of the Cafe will admit of: Who are the Perfons, tliat 
 have been guilty of fiich Mifapplications and Imbezzlcments, 
 will be beil difcover'd by an Inquiry into the Condu£l of thofe 
 who have had the Difpofal of fuch Money ; and without fuch 
 an Inquiry, it is juftly to he feared, that the County will conti- 
 nually be burrhen'd with very heavy Taxes, without the leaft 
 Rcafon or Neceflity lor the fame. 
 
 For it is apprehended, as the Laiv Jlands at frefent, that 
 whatever Mifapplications or Imbez^zlements there may be of the 
 County Money, the Jnhabitants of the County, who may, in 
 many Inflames, be taxed at the Difcretion of the faid Juftices, 
 and whofe Properties, by Confequence, continually lie expofed to 
 their Mercy, have no effectual Method of Redrejs, but by Ap- 
 plication to Parliament, 
 
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 NUMBER XXX. 
 
 Sir Daniel Dolins j General Jccount, 
 
 Dr. 
 
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 Received for Bridges 243 19 11 
 Received for Houle of \ 
 
 Corrcaion - _ - > '9 '9 °4 
 
 Received County Rates 977 oz 03 
 
 Recciv. Money Replaced 277 09 00 
 
 157S 10 06 
 
 Paid for Bridges 
 Paid for Houle of Cor- \ 
 reftion - - - - 5 
 Paid for Repairing? , <-, 
 
 Ll- l' U U "1.1064 17 OS 
 
 /. 
 
 Cr. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 243 
 
 19 II 
 
 79 
 
 19 04 
 
 Balance in Hand 
 
 
 189 
 
 10 
 
 1578 10 06 
 
 /. 1064 17 5 Laid out and paid by Sir Z)(jw;f/ Z)c/;»i for Repairing ^'irij'j-//«//. 
 
 9-7 02 3 As appears above to be received from County Rate». 
 
 t>7 13 2 Muft be- Part of 277 /. 9/. orf. replaced, and confequentiy makes ibe 
 
 ■ . ■ ■ Sum due to fcveral Treafurers of Money borrowed /. 82(1 12 9r 
 
 VIZ. 
 
 As appears by the Balance of the Account ofT 
 
 Money borrowed of the feveral Treafurers for r" 738 17 j\ 
 the Repair oi Hhh' s-Hall, to be replaced - - 
 
 And Part of 277 /. 9 s. od. replaced in Sir Dtiniel-t 
 
 /;<!//»/'s Hands, laid out upon ///V/.(V//<»//, and V" 87 15 2 
 >aid bv him, as above - - - - -^ 
 
 paid by 
 
 Total not replaced 
 
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