April Session in the twenty fifth Year of the Reign of King
George the Third.

Middlesex .

Be it remembered that at the General Session of the
Delivery of the Kings Gaol of Newgate holden for the County of
Middlesex at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey in the Suburbs of the City of
London On Wednesday the Sixth Day of April in the twenty fifth Year of
the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Briton Etc
Before Richard Clark< no role > Esquire Mayor of the City of London Sir James
Eyre< no role > King he One of the Barons of our said Lord the King of his Court of
Exchequer Brass Crosby< no role > Esquire One of the Aldermen of the Said City of London Sir
Thomas Halifax< no role > Knight one other of the Aldermen of the Said City James
Adair< no role > One of his Majestys Serjeants at Law Recorder of the said City John
Burnell< no role > Esquire one other of the Aldermen of the Said City John William Rose< no role >
Esquire and others their fellows Justices of our Said Lord the King Assigned to
deliver the said Gaol of Newgate of the Prisoners therein being Richard
Akerman< no role > This name instance is in set 4413. Gentleman Keeper of his Majestys Said Gaol of Newgate brings into
the Court here the Body of George Cossans< no role > late of the Parish of Ringwood in the
County of Southampton Labourer whom he had in his Custody by Virtue of a
Warrant under the Hand and Seal of Sir Sampson Wright< no role > Knight one of the
Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace of our Said Lord
the King within the Said County of Middlesex and also to hear and determine
divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanors committed within the
said County which said Warrant is in the Words following (that is to says)
Middlesex (to wit) To the Keeper of his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate
Whereas it appears to me one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex by his Majesty's Order in His Privy Council of the
fourteenth day of February One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty three
published in the London Gazettos of the eighteenth and twenty second Days of
the Same Month of February That John Earley< no role > Yeoman Joseph Earley< no role >
Yeoman a person known by the Name of George otherwise Teapot Labourer
Peter Warne< no role > Yeoman and John Mickland< no role > Labourer all of the Parish of
Ringwood in the County of Southampton and John Streeter< no role > of the Parish of
Christ Church in the Said County Mariner And Esan Shelley< no role > of the Vill of
Biston Closes in the Said County Yeoman had been upon the eighteenth day
of January then last past charged by Information of six credible Persons
upon Oath by them subscribed before Henry Compton< no role > Esquire then one of
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Southampton
with having been guilty On Thursday the Ninth day of the said Month of
January of being with several other Persons to the Number of about
fifty more armed with Offensive Weapons namely large Bludgeous
and Clubs and so armed being Assembled together at Burley in the Said
Parish of Ringwood and County aforesaid in Order to rescue and to beading
and assisting in rescuing and taking away a large Quantity of mentioned Goods
after Seizure thereof and that the Said John Earley< no role > Joseph Earley< no role > a Person
Known by the Name of George otherwise Teapot Peter Warne< no role > John Mickland< no role >
John Streeter< no role > and Esau Shelley< no role > and each of them were by such his Majesty's
Order in Council So published as aforesaid required to Surrender himself and
themselves within the Space of forty Days after the first Publication of the Said
Order in the London Garotte to The Lord Chief Justice or one other of his
His Majesty's Justices of the Court of Kings Bench or to one of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace And whereas George Cossans< no role > late of the Parish of
Ringwood in the Said County of Southampton Labourer was this day
brought before me and charged upon the Oath of Joseph Hanbury< no role > with
being the Person Known by the Name of George otherwise Teapot Labourer
and with not having Surrendered him self pursuant to the Said Order but
with having George Coted and refused so to do By reason and Means
whereof he stands convicted and attainted of Felony And whereas the
Said George Cossans< no role > hath this Day voluntarily confessed before me that
he is the Person Known by the Name of George otherwise Teapot Labourer
as Specified in the Said Order These are therefore in his Majesty's name