Peace to be holden for this County, in Order
to the better enforcement of the same

P adjorn Jovis 17 o. die Aprilis 1729

Order touching the
borrowing of Moneys
to defend Richard
Norwood Gent a high
Constable against a
Prosecucon upon an
Indictmt . preferred
agt. him by the Clerk
of the Market

Whereas Richard Norwood< no role > High Constable
within the Hundred of Elthorne in this County
was Indicted at the Generall Quarter Sessions
of the Peace holden for the said County on
Tuesday the fourteenth day of January last at
the Prosecution of Thomas Robe< no role > and John
Matthews Esquires Patentees of the Office of
Clerk of the Market of the Kings Household
and exerciseing or pretending to exercise the
said Office for a contempt in refuseing to appears
and make a retorn before them at the Chequer
Inn in Uxbridge in this County of a Warrant to
him directed granted under the hand of the said
John Matthews< no role > and under Seale of the Office of
Clerk of the said Markett for the Summoning of
a Jury to appear before them or either of them
as in the said Indictment is more particularly
mentioned, And this Court being of Opinion that
such refuseall of the said High Constable was
in Order to prevent his Majesties Subjects from
being oppressed by any Illegall Proceedings or
Exactions of Money by the said Patentees or
their Agents, And in as much as this Court is,
satisfyed that the said High Constable acted
in pursuance of the Resolution of the Court of
Generall Sessions of the Peace holden for this
County by adjornment on Friday the Twenty
fourth day of February in the thirteenth Yeare
of the Reigne of his late Majesty King George
the first which was intended to prevent the
Inhabitants of this County from being oppressed