1767
December.

By adjournment on Friday the 11th. day of
December 1767 .

Reference on the
petition of Jas. Clarke< no role >
High Constable
Enfield }

Whereas at the last General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
John Cradock< no role > Gentleman upon his humble Petition was
discharged from his Office of High Constableship within the
hundred of Edmonton and it being represented to that Court
that Mr.James Clarke< no role > This name instance is in set 4523. of the Chase side Mr. John Wells< no role > of
Ponder's end , and Richard Connop< no role > of Green Street , Enfield
Highway all in the Parish of Enfield within the said hundred
were each of them sufficient and fit and proper Persons to
Execute the said office in his stead, the said James Clarke< no role > This name instance is in set 4523.
was appointed to that Office And thereupon being served with
an Order of appointment exhibited his petition at the said
Session praying to be Executed from the Service of the said
office for that he is totally unacquainted with the Constitution
and Customs of the Hundred and Duties of the office and is
upwards of sixty Years of age and infirm and so troubled with
an asthma as to be rendered incapable of walking a Mile or
to that Effect The consideration of which Petition was and
stands adjourned to this Day Now upon further considr.
had of the Premisses it is referred to his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for this County acting in the said hundred to
Examines the matter of the said Petition at their special
Session and if they shall be of opinion that the said Mr. Clarke
is a sufficient and fit Person to Execute the said office then
to administer to him the oath for his due Execution thereof and
the said Mr. Clarke is hereby required to attend the said Justices
and duly to conform himself as he will answer the contrary at
his Peril andin case the said Justices shall be of opinion that
the said Mr. Clarke is not a fit person to Execute the said office
then the said Justices are hereby recommended to Nominate and
return to the next General Quarter Session some other person or
persons duly qualified to Execute the said office to the intent that
an appointment may be than made of an high Constable there in
the stead of the said Mr. Clarke who was thereupon is to stand free'd
and discharged from the said Office according to the prayer of his Petition.