Middlesex

Guildhall Westminster -24th March 1777

24 March 1777

Minutes of the General Meeting
Present

Sir John Hawkins< no role > in the Chair

James Chauvell< no role > Edmund BindlessJasper Clarke< no role >
Jonathan Durden< no role > Sampson WrighteWilliam Manwaring< no role >
Thomas Fellows< no role > Thomas Treslove< no role > David Wilmot< no role >
John Pratt< no role > William Kitchener< no role > Cornelius Martin< no role >
Stephen GuionJohn Spencer< no role > ColepeperRobert Butler< no role >
Jeremiah Bentham< no role > Henry LambeSir John Chetwode< no role >
James SpaggDavid Walker< no role > James Paine< no role >
Parker RowlandsJohn Brettel< no role >
Thomas Parker< no role > John Barnfather< no role > John Cox< no role >
William Blackmore< no role > Edmund Byron< no role > John Wrighte
James Spalding< no role > John Sherwoods

Sir John Hawkins< no role > acquainted the Gentlemen present that the reason
of their being called together was his having received a Letter from his
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury which he laid before the Meeting

Sir

The Bishops having observed with much
concern the great increasing neglect, and irreligious disregard of
Good Friday; do entreat you Sir, with the rest of the Justices for
Middlesex , to Sent your Assistance; and to interpose your influence
& authority, to remedy, as far as may be, this growing Evil

I am
Sir
With the truest regard
your most faithful
humble Servant
Fred: Cant< no role >

To which Sir John Hawkins< no role > returned the following answer

My Lord

The Letter with which I am honoured by your
Grace found me in my Steady with the Bishop of Chester 's extrortation
before me I had rec'd it yesterday and have been ever since meditating