Whereas at 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 fourteenth day
of January in the Twenty ninth Year of the
Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the third King
of Great Britain Etc James Payne< no role > late of the
Parish of Abberton in the County of Essex Cordwainer
Samuel Goddard< no role > late of the same Labourer Thomas
Cresp< no role > late of the same Labourer Henry Lockett< no role >
Otherwise Smiler< no role > late of the same Labourer and
James Harper< no role > late of the same Labourer were and
Hand indicted for Unlawfully assaulting John Eldred< no role >
An Officer of Excise of Our Said Lord the King at
the said Parish of Abberton in the said County of
Essex on Shore in the execution of his office in Securing
and securing Twenty Gallons of Foreign Brandy and
Twenty Gallons of Foreign Gineva and for hendering
apposing and obstructing him in the execution of
said office and dutyI do hereby Authorize You
to enter a Nolle Prosequi as to the said James
Harper< no role > and to Cause all proceedings on the said
Indictment as against the said James Harper< no role > to he
forth with discharged and for to doing this shall
be Your warrant Dated this Twenty fifth day
of February 1789.

To Thomas Shelton< no role > Esq Clerk of
the Session of Gaol delivery for
the County of Middlesex }

A [..] . Macdonald
Feb:25th:1789 .