Middx

At the General Session of the Peace of Our Lord the King begun and holden for the County of Middx at
Hicks Hall in St. John Street in the County aforesaid on Monday the Twenty first Day of February in the
Thirtieth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain & Before
Thomas Lane< no role > , George Errington< no role > , George Green< no role > , Merry Teshmaker, Stephen Clarke< no role > , Thomas Nicholl< no role >
Francis Bedwell< no role > , Bartholomew Hammond< no role > , Charles Wale< no role > , John Cox< no role > , John Cross< no role > , John Barber< no role > Robert
Pell, Thomas Jervis< no role > Hammond Cross< no role > , Richard Chamberlaine< no role > , Henry Cheer< no role > , Saunders Welch< no role >
George Garrett< no role > Esquires and others their Fellows 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 Adjournments until this Day
(to wit) Thursday the Twenty Fourth day of The same Month of February in the Year aforesaid
And on the same Day holden by Adjournment at Hicks Hall in St. John Street aforesaid before the
Justices above named and others their Fellows aforesaid

£1200
County Rate.

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 & 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 &
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 their discretions shall think sufficient to Answer
all and every the ends and Purposes mentioned in the said Act Now for as much as it
appeareth unto this Court that three fourths of the Money of the first Rate made in June Session 1756.
being the last preceeding Rate hath been Paid and Expended to Answer the ends & 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
This Court upon Consideration of the Premisses is of Opinion an doth accordingly Order that a
General Rate be made and Assessed upon every Town Parish or Place in the said County for
raising the Sum of Twelve hundred Pounds which this Court doth think necessary to be raised for
the Purposes aforesaid And to the [..] intent the same Sum may be raised for the Purposes aforesaid
This Court by Virtue of the said Act doth Assess upon every Town Parish and place
herein after mentioned in the respective Hundreds & Divisions in the said County of Middx and
within the Jurisdiction and Authority of this Court (according to the Proportion they have been
usually assessed towards raising of Moneys for the Passing and releiving of Vagrants)
the respective Sums of Money following (that is to say).

The Hundred of Ossulston
Westminster Division.

Upon The Parish of St. Margaret Westmr .65:2:6
The Parish of St. Martin in the Fields 92:2:42
The Parish of St. George Hanover Squars45:11:3
The Parish of St. James within the Liberty of Westminster 90:19:6
That Part of St. Clement Danes which is in the Liberty of Westminster 35:0:3
That Part of St. Mary le Strand which is in the Liberty of westminster 8:15:0
The Parish of St. Ann within the Liberty of Westminister 41:11:4
The Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden 30:8:1
408:10:4