Middx.

At the General Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the
King begun and holden for the County of Middx at Hicks Hall in St. John Street
in and for the said theCounty, aforesaidon Monday the Second day of December in
the twenty eighth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the Second King of Great Britain Etc before Thomas Lane< no role > George
Errington< no role > , William Caslon< no role > , William Withers< no role > John Dekewer< no role >
Walter Berry< no role > , Thomas Jervis< no role > , George Garrett< no role > , John Goodchild< no role > ,
Boulton Mainwaring< no role > , Edmund Byron< no role > , George Greene< no role > Merry
Teshmaker< no role > , Bartholomew Hammond< no role > , Christopher Scott< no role > , Francis
Bedwell< no role > Esquires and others their Follows 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, and from thence continued by Several
adjornment until this day (to wit) Thursday the fifth Day of the
Same Month of December in the Year aforesaid, And on the Same
day holden by adjornment at Hicks Hall in St. John Street in and for
the Same County before the Justices abovenamed and others their Follows
aforesaid.

County Rate
£1200.

Whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the twelfth
Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the Second Intituled
An Act for the more easy assessing collecting and levying of County
Rates The Justices of the Peace in that part of Great Britain called
England within the respective Limits of their Commissions at their
General or Quarter Sessions or the greater part of them then and there
assembled have full Power and Authority from time to time to make
one General Rate or Assessment for such Sum or Sums of Money as
the Justices in their Direction Shall think Sufficient to answer all and
every the Ends and Purposes mentioned in the said Act, Now for as much
as it appreareth unto this Court that three fourths of the Money of the last Rate
made in January Session 1754 being the last preceding Rate hath been
paid and expended to answer the Ends and Purposes mentioned in the
Said Act of Parliament And that it is necessary that a considerable
Sum of Money Should be raised and a Rate made upon the Towns
Parishes and Places in the Said County for raising of Money to answer the
Several Ends and Purposes mentioned in the said Act of Parliament