December 1777

Margaret Street< no role > Cavendish Square

Mrs. Elizabeth Jones< no role > ats Mennell

Middlesex as
well within Liberties
as without} to wit.

John Gretton< no role >
LS

These are on his Majestys name to require you personally to be
and appear before me John Gretton< no role > Esq one of his Majestys Justices of the
peace for the said County Etc. at my house in Margaret Street afores [..]
His day at Six O Clock in the afternoon then and there to shew C [..]
and Answer the Complaint of Ann Drury< no role > for [..] refusing to
her a Carractor Hereof fail not at Your peril Given [..] my hands
and Seal this first day of Decr. One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy
Seven

Whereupon It was Moved by John Spen< no role > [..]
Colepeper Esquire one other of his Majestys Justices of the peace of or th [..]
County That it having been represented to this Court that certain act [..]
Magistrates within this County have grossly misbehaved themselves in the
Execution of their Office as Justices of the peace Resolved that if be rep [..]
to a Committee to Examine and inquire into any undue and illegal
practices of such Magistrates as well as of any other that may be C [..]
before them and report their proceedings from time to time to the Court of [..]
the County day of each Session and the same being carried unan [..]
in the Affirmative It is Ordered That

The Revd. Sir George Booth< no role > Bart.
Sir John Chetwode< no role > Baronet
John Spencer< no role > Colepeper
John Brettell< no role >
John Croft< no role >
James Spagg
John Staples< no role >
William Quarrill< no role >

Thomas Parker< no role >
William Manwaring< no role >
Richard Paul Jodrell< no role >
John Barnfather< no role >
James Croft< no role >
Thomas Tryon Cotton
&
George Allcock< no role > Esquire

Justices of the peace for the County of Middlesex or any three or more
of them be the Committee for the purposes aforesaid That the said Commo [..]
do meet at No. 25 Castle Yard Holborn on Monday the 15th. day of
December Instant at Eleven O Clock in the forenoon and that afternwa [..]
they do meet and adjourn to such times and places as they shall think
meet

Moved That the thanks of this Court be given to John
Spencer< no role > Colepeper Esquire for his attention and regard to the honour of the
Gentlemen named in the Commission of the peace for this County in [..]
Motion this day made by him for an Enquiry into the Conduct [..]
Magistrates as have been Guilty of Undue and illegal practices in the
Execution of their Office and the same being agreed to Unanimously [..]
Thanks of the Court were given to Mr. Colepeper accordingly