By Adjornment on Friday the 23d. day of May 1735
Order desireing Thomas
Lane Esqr
. Chairman of
the Court with as many
other Justices of the
peace as Shall think
proper, to attend & lay
before the right honble. the
Lord high Chancellor a
Representation agt.
Thos. Robe< no role >
Esqr
.}
Upon reading the Draught of a Representation of his Maties
Justices of the peace
of the County of Middx
assembled at this
present General Sessions against
Thomas Robe< no role >
Esqr
. a Justice of
the peace of the Said County touching the misdemeanor therein
Specifyed, It is Ordered by this Court that the Said Representation
be ingrossed, on Parchment, and that the Same be Signed
by as many Justices of the peace of the Said County as Shall
think proper, And that
Thomas Lane< no role >
Esqr
. Chairman of
this Court be and he is hereby desired together with as many
Justices of the peace
as Shall think proper, to attend and lay
the Said Representation before the right honble. the Lord
high Chancellor
of Great Britain, to the end that such
Redress may be had in relation to the matters therein
Specifyed, as to his Lordship's wisdome Shall Seem meet,
By the Court
To the Right Honble. Charles Lord Talbot< no role >
Baron
of
Hensoll Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Representation of his
Maties Justices of the
peace of Middx to the
Lord high Chancellor
concerning Thos. Robe
Esqr
.}
His Maties Justices of the peace
for the County of Middx in
their General Sessions assembled find themselves obliged,
in vindication of their own honour and the
Rep [..]
Reputation of their Commission, without which their
Authority can be of little use, to complain to your Lordship
of the Extraordinary and unexampled Behaviour of
Thomas Robe< no role >
Esqr
. one of the Justices of the peace for this
County who hath for a considerable Time last past gone
about Solliciting & Stirring up persons to move for
Informations against others acting (as is conceived)
under the lawfull authority of this Court and the Orders
of the Same for raising money for the necessary Service
of passing of Vagrants from time to time, and to apply
for Cercioraris to remove the Said Orders which they
humbly conceive to be legal Orders, on purpose to bring
the Said Comission into Scandal & disrepute And (as he
has declared) to be revenged of them for certain of their
former proceedings in which he was concerned, and in
execution of Such his purposes hath illegally
[..] uttered
& publickly Spoken divers words of an opprobrions &
Scandalons Nature highly reflecting upon the persons