Middlesex Sessions:
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11th January 1722 - 16th January 1725

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P adjorn Sabti 1mo. die Junij 1723

Order concerning
the placeing of posts
& railes in order
to prevent the
passage neare the
Corporacon work
house from being
used as a comon
way for coaches,
carts Etc


Whitelock Bulstrode< no role > Esqr.
Sr. Jon. Gouson< no role > Knt.


D'Oyly Michel< no role >
Wm. Kingsford< no role >
Joseph Hayne< no role > } Esqrs .

Whereas the Comittee for the Management of the New
Corperacon house called the Quarters Workhouse at
Clerkenwell in this County Exhibited their humble
Petition unto his Majesties Justices of the peace
Assembled at the Generall Quarter Sessions of the
peace holden for this County by Adjournment on the
thirteenth day of January in the Eighth Year of the
Reigne of his present Majestie King George
Complaining that two posts putt Downe in the Way or
passage leading to and from the said Quarter's Workhouse
to prevent the same from being made a publick way for
Carts or other Carriages were on the twenty second day
of May One Thousand Seven hundred and twenty one
Digged up out of the Earth by Bartholomew Stafford< no role > and
Isaac Davis< no role > under pretence that they had Orders from the Earl
of Northton soe to doe Whereupon It was by Order made at the
same Quarter Sessions recomended and referred unto John Fuller< no role >
Alexander Ward< no role > John Ellis< no role > Thomas Pindar< no role > William Cotesworth< no role >
and Mathew Hewitt< no role > Esqr . Justices of the peace for this County
or any three of them to View the said Way or passage and
see how farr the said posts latetly Stood from the House of
Correction and how farr the lands of this County Adjoyning
to the said Way or passage and lately taken from the said House
of Correction extend Now upon Report made by the said John
Fuller William Cotesworth and Mathew Hewitt< no role > that they have
Viewed the Way or passage leading from the House of Correccon
att Clerkenwell to the said Corporacon Workhouse and Doe
find that when the late Dwelling House belonging to the House
of Correction was pulled Downe in Order to be Rebuilt some
part of the ground belonging to this County on which the said
Dwelling House stood and next to the passage in question was
left Vacant and unbuilt upon by means whereof the said
passage being under than formerly is now become a Coach and Cart way, Soe
that the said Justices Conceive if polls and Railes were putt
downe in that part of the ground soe left Vacant upon which
part of the said late Dwelling House Stood (which ground




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