Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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22nd February 1725 - 19th January 1734

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Robert Jennison< no role > out of custody if detained no other cause
than what was specified (not in the Commitment but)
in the warrant, not having the said Robert Jennison< no role >
then before him nor takeing any security what soever at
that time for the said Robert Jennisons< no role > appearance to
Answer the said Offence but immediatly wrote a
letter to John Ellis< no role > Esqr dated (14th of November signifying
That he had that day Taken sufficient Bail for Mr.
Robert Jennison< no role > to that warrant granted upon the
complaint of the High constable (which Letter is
hereunto annexed) marked (3) And it appears to the
Committee That the said Francis Jennison< no role > being
with Mr. Midford upon the account of the prisoner
Robert Jennison< no role > desire and endeavour to persuade
Mr. Midford to scratch out or erase the certificate of the
Commitment of the said Robert Jennison< no role > by him
abovementioned to have been endorsed upon the
Original Warrant,

The committee having Received those Information
of so illegal and unprecedented a proceeding, and
iudging the same to receive a considerable aggravation
from its' being attempted at a time, when the effectual
suppression of all Disorderly houses is of so much more
than Ordinary consequence to the publick even in the
opinion of His most sacred himself and when his Justices
of the peace (with whom the said Francis Jennison< no role >
ought rather to concur) are by his Commands acting
with all vigour to that End, and the before that the
same was done not only in defiance of the subordinate
Authority vested in and (in this Instance) Executed by
the said Justices of the peace , but of his Majestys own
gracious Express and particular directions for that purpose
and meant to discourage and obstruct the inferiour
peace Officers in doing their duty therein by arbitrarily
and under colour of his authority upholding supporting
and abetting the said Robert Jennison< no role > in his contemptuous
behaviour towards the said High Constable and the Warrant
by him Executed, the Committee Thought it became
them to desire the said Francis Jennison< no role > to attend and




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