Middlesex Sessions:
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27th October 1757 - 9th December 1762

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By adjournment on Thursday the twenty seventh day of October 1757 .

Order for Mr. Higgs Trearer
to pay £19.4s.3d to Mr.
Roger Jackson< no role > Coroner .

A List of Inquisitions having been produced before this Court by Roger Jackson< no role > Gent
Coroner for the City and Liberty of Westminster in the County of Middx therein
mentioning the same to be taken on View of dead Bodies in the said Liberty
and chargeable on the said County by virtue of an Act of Parliament which said
Inquisitions contain the Names of the dead Bodies viewed being nineteen
in Number And it appearing unto this Court by Writing under the hands of
Francis Bedwell< no role > and Bartholomew Hammond< no role > Esqrs . two of his Majestys Justices
of the Peace for the said County that they have examined the said List and that
there is due for the same to the said Coroner the Sum of nineteen pounds
fourteen shillings and three pence It is Ordered by this Court that Mr.
John Higgs< no role > Treasurer of this County do pay the said Sum of nineteen pounds
fourteen shillings and three pence unto the said Coroner in full of his said
Demand whose Receipt together with this Order shall be a sufficient
Discharge to the said Treasurer for such payment.

By adjournment on Thursday the twenty seventh day of October 1757.

Order for Mr. Higgs Trearer
to pay several Sum of money
to Workmen for Work done at
the House of Correction and
New Prison at Clerkenwell .

A Bill of Mr. Woods Coker< no role > Carpenter and also a Bill of Mr. Richard Holmes< no role >
Bricklayer for Work done at the House of Correction and New Prison at
Clerkenwell in this County being produced before this Court and it appearing that
the said Bills have been examined by two of his Majestys Justices of the
Peace for this County and that there is due to the said Workmen respectively
as followeth.

To Mr. Woods Coker< no role > for Work done at the House of Correction£55.18s.0d
To Mr. Richard Holmes< no role > for Work done at the House of Correction£0.10s.8d
To the same for Work done at New Prison £0.12s.4d

Which said Sums of money account in the whole to fifty seven pounds and
one shilling It is Ordered by this Court that Mr. John Higgs< no role > Treasurer of
this County do pay unto the said Persons abovenamed respectively the said
respective Sums of Money abovementioned written over against their respective
Names and that the Receipts of the said Persons respectively together with
this Order shall be sufficient Discharges to the said Treasurer for such
payments.

By adjournment on Thursday the twenty seventh day of October 1757

Order for Mr. Higgs Trearer
to pay 6.13.7 to Mr. Richard
Holmes Bricklayer for Work
done at Hicks Hall

A Bill of Mr. Richard Holmes< no role > Bricklayer for Work done at Hicks Hall in St.
John Street in this County amounting to the Sum of Six pounds thirteen shillings
and seven pence being produced before this Court and it appearing unto this Court
by Writing under the Hands of Merry Teshmaker and Bartholomew Hammond< no role >
Esqrs . two of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the said County that they have
examined the said Bill and that there is due for the same to the said Richard
Holmes the said Sum of Six pounds thirteen shillings and seven pence It is
Ordered by this Court that Mr. John Higgs< no role > Treasurer of this County do pay




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