to will and require you the Said Keeper to receive into your Custody the
Body of the said George Cossans< no role > and him safely to Keep until he shall from
thence be discharged by due Course of Law Given under my hand and
Seal this Eighteenth day of March One thousand Seven hundred and eighty
five Sampn. Wright< no role > [..] At which same Session of the Delivery of
the Said Gaol of Newgate aforesaid holden for the County of Middlesex aforesaid
at Justice Hall aforesaid on the said Wednesday the Sixth day of the said
Month of April before the Said Justices a four Said Lord the King and others
their fellows aforesaid cometh Richard Pepper Arden< no role > Esquire Attorney
General of our said present Sovereign Lord the King and in the Presence
and hearing of the said George Cossans< no role > for our Said present Sovereign Lord
the King Saith that Since the twenty fourth day of July which was in the
Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and forty six (to wit) upon the
Eighteenth day of January in the twenty third Year of the Reign of our said
present Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain
France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth at the Parish
of Ringwood in the Said County of Southampton it was in due manuel
charged before Henry Compton< no role > Esquire then 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 Southampton And also to hear and determine
divers felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanors committed within the Same
County by the Information of Ambrose Reddall< no role > John Critchell< no role > , John
Smart< no role > , Thomas Lear< no role > Nicholas Symons< no role > and Robert Stephens< no role > six credible
Persons upon Oath by them then and there duly taken before the Said Henry
Compton< no role > which Information was then and there by the Said Ambrose Reddall< no role >
John Critchell, John Smart< no role > Thomas Lear< no role > Nicholas Symons< no role > and Robert
Stephens< no role > and each of them subscribed That he the Said George Cossans< no role > in
the Said Information called a person Known by the Name of George otherwise
Teapot Labourer and several other Persons to the Number of three and more
in the Same Information Particularly named being armed with offensive
Weapons namely large Bludgeous and Clubs Since the said twenty fourth
day of July which was in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and forty six (to wit) on the Ninth day of January in the twenty third Year
aforesaid were assembled together at Burley in the Said Parish of Ringwood
in the Said County of Southampton in Order to rescue and be aiding and
assisting in rescuing and taking away uncustomed Goods after Seizure
thereof And the said Attorney General of our present Sovereign Lord the
King for our Said Present Sovereign Lord the King further Saith that the
Said Henry Compton< no role > did forthwith (to wit) upon the said Eighteenth day of
January in the twenty third Year aforesaid at the Said Parish of Ringwood
in the Said County of Southampton certify under his Hand and Seal and return
the Said Information so made and given before him as aforesaid To the Right
Honourable Thomas Lord Sydney Baron Sydney of Chiselhurst in the
County of Kent then one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
who did as Soon afterwards as conveinently might be (to wit) upon the
fourteenth day of February in the twenty third Year aforesaid at the
Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aforesaid
lay the Same Information before his Majesty in his Privy Council And that
his Majesty afterwards (to wit) on the Same Day and Year at the Parish last
mentioned did thereupon make his Order in his Privy Council thereby
requiring and commanding the George Cossans< no role > therein called a Person
Known by the Name of George otherwise Teapot Labourer amongst
others in the Said Order particularly named to surrender himself within
the Space of forty days after the first Publication of the said Order in the
London Gazotte to the Lord Chief Justice on one others of his Majesty's
Justices of the Court of Kings Bench or to one of his Majestys Justices
of the Peace which Said Order the then Clerks of has Majesty's Privy