Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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24th February 1763 - 13th January 1774

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Image 129 of 26714th January 1768


1767
December

By adjournment same Day

George Glover< no role >
appointed High
Constable in Elthorne
Hundred in the room
of Jos: Cooke< no role > deced.}

Whereas Joseph Cooke< no role > Gentleman late one of the High
Constables of the hundred of Elthorne in the said County is
lately dead This Court doth appoint George Glover< no role > of Uxbridge
in the said County and Hundred Tallow Chandler to be High
Constable within the said Hundred in the place and stead of the
said Joseph Cooke< no role > and doth Order that the said George Glover< no role >
do forthwith on Notice hereof attend one of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the said County residing in or near the said
Hundred and take his Corporal Oath for the due Execution
of his office aforesaid as he will be answerable for his neglect
there of.

1768.
January

By adjournment on Thursday the 14th.
January 1768 .

John Wells< no role > Gent
High Constable
Enfield .

Where as at the last General Session of the Peace holden
for the County of Middlesex an Order of Reference was made
reciting that at the then last General Quarter Session of the Peace
John Cradock< no role > Gentleman upon his humble Petition was discharged
from his Office of High Constable within the hundred of
Edmonton and that it being represented to that Court that
Mr. James Clarke< no role > of the Chase side Mr. John Wells< no role > of Ponders
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 Clark< no role > was appointed to that
Office and thereupon being Served with an Order of appointment
Exhibited his Petition at the said Session praying to be
Excused from the Service of the said Office for that he was
totally unacquainted with the Constitution and Customs of the
Hundred and Duties of the office and was 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 adjourned to the eleventh
Day of December and upon that Day it was by the said Order




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