By adjornment on Thursday the eighteenth Day of
October 1744
.
Order for a Committee
to consider of a Matter
of Complaint concerning
the granting of Certificates
in Sessions time agt.
persons Indicted.
Whereas a Matter of Complaint hath been laid before this
Court concerning the granting of Certificates in sessions time
against Persons Indicted, upon which Judges Warrants are
obtained and the persons Indicted are apprehended by Tipstaffs
and hurryed into a Spungoing house where they are put to
great Expence, the Substance of which Complaint (amongst
other Matters) is fully Set forth in the paper writing
hereunto annexed, This Court upon reading the same being
willing that the oppressions occassioned by such practice
should be prevented Doth Order that it be And It is hereby
recommended and referred unto Thomas Lane< no role >
Esquire
Sir
Thomas De Veil< no role >
Knt. John Milner< no role >
Nicholas Jeffreys< no role >
Samuel Savill< no role >
Robert Hucks< no role >
Ferdinand Springall< no role >
William Morics< no role >
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Richard Ricards< no role >
Merry
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Charles Egerton< no role >
Robert Tothill< no role >
Nathaniel
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Peter Elers< no role >
Francis Hole< no role >
Henry Broadhead< no role >
Samuel Edge< no role >
Ebenezer Mussell< no role >
John Tall< no role >
John Lawton< no role >
and Thomas Quarrill< no role >
Esquires
Justices of the Peace
for
this County and such other Justices as shall think fit to be
present or any three or more of them as a Committee to
assemble & meet together at Hicks hall
in St. John Street
in this County on Wednesday the fifth day of December
next at ten of the Clock in the forenoon to consider of the
Matters Set forth in the paper writing above mentioned,
and how the Grievance therein specified may be redressed,
and by what lawfull means, And to make their Report
touching the premisses unto this Court, And notice of the
Meeting above mentioned is to be given unto she above
named Justices of the peace,
Sir
I hope you and the rest of the Worshipful Justices of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex
will pardon this freedom in
laying before them the following Grievance it being in their