1769. May.

That notwithstanding all the precautions that have been
taken for Excluding from that great and important True of
Persons of small consideration and of Bad principles and
Characters, the said Justices had the Mortification to find that
one John Sherratt< no role > in named in the present commission of the
peace for the said County and also in that for the city and
Liberty of Westminster

That the said John Sherratt< no role > was originally a Hatter
and from the Course of his Education and the Nature of his
Business can hardly be supposed capable of Exercising the
office of a Magistrate with any degree of Credit to the Comicon
or benefit to the Public.

That from the time of his first appearance in the World
the said John Sherratt< no role > hath been shifting from one occupation
to another That he hath been at different times a Broker,
a Proprietor of a place of public Resort called Mary bone
Gardens , an Agent for the Proprietors of a Private ship of war
and is now as he pretends a Notary public bus without Employmt.
or any visible means of subsistence.

That since the Month of April 1745 the said Sherratt
hath been twice a Bankrupt as appears By two several Comicons
of Bankruptcy awarded against him, the one bearing date
the 25th. day of January 1745 and the other the 20th. day of
april 1754 under neither of which there has been made any other
than a very small Dividend The consequence where of the said
Justices apprehend is that supposing him to have any qualification
as a Justice of the Peace the same is liable to satisfy the Creditors
under both the said Commissions the full Sum of 20s. in the
pound for their respective debts.

That the said Sherratt is at present in debt and open to
the demands of Creditors against whom no Certificate under either
of the above Commissions can as the said Justices Conceive be a
Bar and that he is so conscious thereof that he hath procured his
Name to be inserted in a List of the Servants of Foreign
Ministers as one of the Servants of Count Haslang Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary from the Elector
of Bavaria to the end that he may be priviledged from Arrests.