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

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Brick Earth, and making and burning the Bricks
and Tyles, be continued.

That in Case any of the Searchers find any Bricks or Tyles
to be bad and not fitt for use or of wrong Dimensions, or made
Contrary to the directions of the Severall Acts of parliament
fot that purpose, Such Searchers to Complaine to the next
Justice, who may order them at the Charge of the
Brickmaker or owner to be Numbred, and Separated or
kept a part from the rest, and not to be Sold removed or
disposed of till the next Sessions, and then the Justices in
Sessions on application of Such Justice, or of the Searchers
Brickmakers on owners, to Sumon the parties, and on
their Appearance or default, to determine upon the
Bricks or Tyles So Separated, Whether they be fitt for use
and made agreable to the Lawes, And if not, The
Sessions to have powers to order them to be broke to peices
or destroyed at the Charge of the Brickmaker or Owner,
And this not to defeat or prejudice Any Informer who
may sue for any penalties given or to be given, And
if any of the Bricks or Tyles Soe Separated or ordered
to be Separated, Shall be Sold disposed of or removed,
before the End of the next Sessions; Such Bricks or Tyles
to be deemed bad, and to be made Contrary to Law, and
the Brickmakers or owners to be made liable to the
present penalties, or to Such other penaltie as Shall be
thought more proper

The life powers of Separating and destroying, and the
like penaltie to be given, where any person (as the
usuall practice is) Sends for or Contracts with a
Brickmaker for Bricks or Tyles to be delivered at his
Building, or agrees by the Rodd or otherwise with
any Bricklayer or Workemen, in Case bad or
unstatutable Bricks or Tyles be Sent in, And in




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