Middlesex

At the general Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King
begun and holden for the County of Middlesex , at Hicks Hall in St. John's Street in
the County aforesaid on Monday the fifteenth day of January in the Twenty third Year of
the Reign of our Sovereign, Lord George the Second King of Great Britain Etc and from
thence continued by several Adjournments until this Day (to wit) Thursday the Eighteenth
day of the same month of January in the year aforesaid and on the same day holden
by Adjournment at Hicks Hall aforesaid in and for the said County; before Thomas
Lane< no role > , John Milner< no role > , James Clitherow< no role > , Henry Fielding< no role > , Pierce Galliard< no role > , Stephen
Bukingham< no role > , Richard Hassell< no role > , Henry Norris< no role > , Isaac Pacatus Strand< no role > , Jacob Harvey< no role >
Merry Teshmaker< no role > , Vigerus Edwards< no role > , Barwell Smith< no role > , Robert Tothill< no role > , Richard
Richards, Peter Elers, Philip Dyot< no role > , William Withers< no role > , Robert Paul< no role > , George
Errington, John Gascoyn< no role > , Boulton Mainwaring, John Lawton< no role > , Walter Berry< no role >
Esqrs : and other their Fellow Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep
the Peace in the County aforesaid, and also to hear and determine divers Felonies
Trespasses, and other Misdeeds committed in the same County.

Order for limiting and
Ascertaining the Rates &
Allowances for passing &
maintaining Vagabonds.}

His Majesty< no role > 's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex now Assembled at
this General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the said County in Pursuance
of the Statute made in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King
George the Second Intituled, An Act to amend and make more effectual the Laws
relating to Rogues Vagabonds and other idle and disorderly Persons and to hours
of Correction, Do hereby on this eighteenth day of January Instant, Order Limit
appoint and direct That the Several Rates and Allowances Per Mile or otherwise
to be made by any Justice or Justices of the Peace for the said County to any Constable
or other Officer of the same County for the Passing Conveying or Maintaining of Rogues
and Vagabonds to be passed or Conveyed as by the said Act is directed, shall be until
farther Order of the Court of General Quarter or General Session of the Peace for the said
County to the Contrary as follow, that is to Say, for maintaining of all and every such
Rogues and Vagabonds the Rate or Allowance of Six pence for every such Person for
four and twenty hours, and so after that Rate for a longer or Shorter time and for the
passing or conveying of any such person or Persons whose Names are contained
in one Pass conveyed or carried alone or together at one time or Turn by Cart or
Horse Carriage the Rate of Six pence a Mile and no more, and for passing or
Conveying of Such Person or Persons on foot under and less than Six pence a Mile
according to the Discretion of the respective Justices of the peace for this County who
shall sign any such Passes or Certificates of Allowance.

But if Several Passes shall be brought by any Constable or other Officer of the
same County to any Justice of the Peace for the said County at one and the same
time and the Persons contained in such Passes are to be passed and Conveyed to the
same place, Then for the Conveying or passing such Person or persons whose Names
are contained in such Passes under and less than Six pence a Mile according to the
Number of Passes as the Justice in his Discretion shall think fit. But if any of
the Justices of the Peace of this County shall think fit and See good Cause to allow
and order more or greater Rates for the Maintaining Conveying and Carrying of