1765
July

truly to be made we bind ourselves and each of
Us by himself for the whole and the Heirs
Exors and Admors of Us and each of Us firmly
by these Presents Sealed with our Seals
Dated the Twenty third day of May in the
Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and Sixty five and in the fifth Year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third King of Great Britain Etc

Whereas an Order and in Pursuance thereof a rate was made by
the Court of General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the County of
Middx at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the County aforesaid.
by Adjournment on Thursday the Eighteenth day of April in the
fifth Year abovementioned by which rate several Sums of Money
were Assessed upon the respective Towns Parishes and Places in
the said County Amounting in the whole to the Sum of Sixteen
hundred Pounds to Answer the ends and purposes mentioned in
an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of the reign of
our late Sovereign Lord King George the Second Intituled
an Act for the more easy Assessing Collecting and levying of
County rates And Whereas his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the said County of Middlesex Assembled at the General Session of
the Peace holden for the said County (being the first General Session of
the Peace holden for the same County next after the making of the
said rate and before the same or any part had been collected or
received by the said Treasurer) Have by Order of Court Appointed
the above bounden James Jefferson< no role > to be Treasurer and receiver
of the Money collected or Levied or to be Collected or Levied by virtue
of the said rate in the room and stead of John Higgs< no role > Gentleman
deceased the late General Treasurer of the said County The said
James Jefferson< no role > having undertaken to give Security to wit himself
in the Sum of One thousand Pounds together with the above bounden
John Horne< no role > and Edward Curteis as Sureties for him the said James
Jefferson in the Sum of Five hundred Pounds by Bond to the
Obligees above named that he the said James Jefferson< no role > will be
accountable for the several and respective Sums of Money which
shall be respectively paid to him in pursuance of the said act of
Parliament and to pay such Sum or Sums of Money as shall
be Ordered to be paid by the Justices of the Peace for the said County
in their General or Quarter Session and for the due and faithfull
Execution of the Trusts reposed in him as Treasurer as by the
Condition herein after written is more particularly Specified And
whereas by the Tenor of the said Act of Parliament all and