Middlesex

October 1776
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William Frederick< no role >
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John Sherwood< no role > Esquire one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for
this County in his place reported that on the opening of the present Session
at the Guild hall Westminster to being in the Chair a Motion had
been made and carried for the payment of a Sum of Money to a
person who had been appointed by the Justices of the Peace for the
City of Westminster as Surgeon and Apothecary to Tothill fields
Bridewell under a late Act of Parliament but that being of opinion
it was an irregular proceeding he desired the opinion of the Court
upon the same Whereupon the Motion being called for it was read
''as follows Vizt. Moved that Mr. Glover Surgeon and Apothecary
''who was appointed by the Justices of the Peace for the City and
''Liberty of Westminster to take care of the Prisoners confined in
''Tothill fields Bridewell under the late Act of Parliament
''for cleaning Goals be paid to this day for his time and medicines
''under the said appointment

and immediately afterwards Mr. Benson the County Treasurer
laid before the Court the following order of the Westminster Session
which had been delivered to him on the 15th. day of October Inst.
by the Deputy Clerk of the Peace for the City and Liberty of Westminster
and the same being read as follows Vizt.

Borough and Town
Westminster in the
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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord
the King holden at the Guild hall in and for the City
and Liberty of Westminster (by adjournment) on
Thursday the Tenth day of october in the Sixteenth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
King of Great Britain Etc. Before Sir John
Fielding< no role > Knight George Paid William Kitchener< no role >
Esquires and others their fellows Justices of our
said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace and
also to hear and determine divers felonies Trespasses
and other Misdemeanours committed in the
said Liberty

Whereas by the Statute of the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of his
present Majesty Intituled An Act for preserving the health
of Prisoners in Goal and preventing the Goal Distemper It is enacted
that the Justices of the Peace in that part of Great Britain called
England and Wales within their several Jurisdictions in their
Quarter Session assembled and authorized and required to appoint
an experienced Surgeon and Apothecary at a Stated Salary to