Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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10th June 1713 - 17th October 1721

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the Justices effectual on this head, your Comittee think
it would be of great use to print Advertisements in
some of the Publick Papers Signifying the Penaltys the
Constables are lyable to, by the said statute for not
apprehending Vagrants, and the Rewards given to all
Persons whatsoever who shall take up such Vagrants
and Sturdy Beggers, which the Justices by the said
Advertisements may declare they will levy on all
Constables in whose Divisions such Beggers shall pass
Unapprehended by according to the directions in the said
Statute

Your Comittee proceeding to consider the next head
to them referr'd, relating to persons Entertaining
Inmates did receive Information from severall
Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace, by which
it appears That besides the ordinary and too much
accustomed method used by Persons in letting out their
Houses to Inmates, its now become a comon Practice
in the extream parts of the Town to receive into their
Houses, Persons unknown without distinction of Age
or sex, on their paying one penny or more P Night for
lying in such Houses without Beds or Covering

That his frequent for fifteen, twenty or more to lye
in a small Room, where it some times happens that poor
Wretches are found Dead, and the Corps have lain many
days among the living before the Parish officers have
been prevailed on to put them into the Ground
Your Committee having well Weighed the danger of Infeccon
from these Wicked and in human practices are of
Opinion-That the Justices in their Petty Sessions and
Publick meetings as aforesaid, do order the Constables
or other proper officers to Sumons before them all Persons
who harbour Inmates, and where it do's appear upon
Examination that such Inmates have no legal Settlement
in such Parishes and are not able to produce Certificates
of their Settlements elsewhere-That the Justices
do imediately pass them to such Parish where upon




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