1766.
April

Thursday 10th. April 1766

John Ventum< no role > of great
Stanmore appointed
High Constable in Gore
Hundred in the room
of Danl. Weedon< no role > dd.}

Upon reading the Petition of Daniel Closed on one of the High
Constables within the Hundred of Gore settingforth that he hath
served the Office of High Constable for upwards of One Year and
has paid and discharged all County Rates to ye Treasurer and
further setting forth that he is unable to attend in the said
Office by reason of corparal Infirmities being very much afflicted
with an Asthma & the Gout And therefore praying to be dischar-
ged from the said Office And this Court being satisfied in the
Premisses Doth Appoint John Ventum of the Village of great
Stanmore within the said Hundred Bricklayer to be high Con
stable within the said Hundred in the Stead & place of thesd.
Daniel Weedon< no role > And doth Order that the said John Ventum< no role >
on Notice hereof do forthwith attend one of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for this County residing in or near thesd.
Hundred and take his Oath for the due execution of his said
Office And that when & after the said John Ventum shall
have taken his said Oath the said Daniel Weedon< no role > is
to stand absolutely discharged from the said Office.

Same day

The Expence of making
Vagrant Passes not to be
pd. for out of County
stock and Treasr. to lay
Orders for rewards before
the Court wherein 'tis not
expenss'd the party was
adjudged a Vagabond}

Pursuant to the Order made at the last General Session, for this
County, Mr. James Jefferson< no role > Deputy Clerk of the Peace for the City
and Liberty of Westminster in this County layd before His Majestys
Justices of the Peace for this County here Assembled an Abstract
by him taken of the Duplicates of Vagrant Passes and Examinations
Transmitted to the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the
said City and Liberty in Consequence of the business mentioned
in the Petition of Thomas Drake< no role > and John Jackson< no role > amounting to
274 in number. And this Court after further debate of the
matter Doth Dismiss so much of the said Petition as relates to charging
the said County with the Expence of making Vagrant Passes and this
Court doth further Order that the Treasurer of the said County for the
time being Do lay before the Sessions from time to time all Orders
for the apprehending of Rogues and Vagabonds which shall from
hence forward be brought for Payment not expressingthatthat the
Person therein named hath been Adjudged a Rogue and Vagabond.