<div1 type="SM_GOpage" id="LMSMGO55607GO556070164"> <xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="LMSMGO556070164"></xptr>
<p n="902"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55607_date32">January 1778</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_date32" type="date" value="17780100"></interp>
</note>
By adjournment Thursday 15th Janry 1778</p>
<p n="903">Ordered that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n903-1">Duncan Campbell</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n903-1" type="given" value="Duncan"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n903-1" type="surname" value="Campbell"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n903-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ383">Esquire</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_occ383" type="occupation" value="Esquire"></interp>
one of the Overseers<lb></lb>
for directing and Managing the Convicts sentenced to Hard Labour on the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo862">River Thames</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo862" type="placeName" value="River Thames"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo862" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
do attend this Court on Thursday the nineteenth day of<lb></lb>
February next at the hour of one at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo863">the Guildhall Westminster</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo863" type="placeName" value="the Guildhall Westminster"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo863" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
and that he<lb></lb>
be desired to being with him Mr D. Aicken the person employed by him<lb></lb>
as Surgeon on Board the Vessels in which the said Convicts are Confined</p>
<p n="904">By adjournment same Day</p>
<p n="905">The following Report from the Committee appointed at the last Session<lb></lb>
of the Peace holden for this County to examine into the undue and<lb></lb>
illegal Practices of such <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ384">Justices of the Peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_occ384" type="occupation" value="Justices of the Peace"></interp>
for this County as have grossly<lb></lb>
misbehaved themselves in the Execution of their Office being laid before this<lb></lb>
Court the same was read as follows</p>
<p n="906"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo864">Middlesex</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo864" type="placeName" value="Middlesex"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo864" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
</note>
To his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ385">Justices of the Peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_occ385" type="occupation" value="Justices of the Peace"></interp>
for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo865">County of Middlesex</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo865" type="placeName" value="County of Middlesex"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo865" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<lb></lb>
in their General Quarter Session Assembled</p>
<p n="907">The Report of the Committee appointed to<lb></lb>
examine and Enquire into any under and illegal<lb></lb>
Practices of such <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ386">Justices of the Peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_occ386" type="occupation" value="Justices of the Peace"></interp>
for this County<lb></lb>
as have grossly misbehaved themselves in the<lb></lb>
Execution of their Office</p>
<p n="908">The said Committee Report</p>
<p n="909">That having taken into Consideration the Order of Reference<lb></lb>
Vizt To examine and inquire into any undue and illegal practices of<lb></lb>
such Magistrates as have grossly misbehaved themselves in the execution<lb></lb>
of their Office as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ387">Justices of the peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_occ387" type="occupation" value="Justices of the peace"></interp>
as well as of any other that may be<lb></lb>
laid before them</p>
<p n="910">Your Committee proceeded to the Examination of several<lb></lb>
Witnesses upon Oath as also to the Inspection of several Papers which<lb></lb>
were submitted to them whence it appeared to Your Committee as<lb></lb>
follows Vizt</p>
<p n="911">That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n911-1">John Ross</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-1" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-1" type="surname" value="Ross"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo866">Oxford Street</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo866" type="placeName" value="Oxford Street"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo866" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in the parish of Saint <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo867">Mary le<lb></lb>
bone</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo867" type="placeName" value="Mary lebone"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo867" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ388">Whipmaker</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_occ388" type="occupation" value="Whipmaker"></interp>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n911-2">James Kennedy</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-2" type="given" value="James"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-2" type="surname" value="Kennedy"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
two Credible persons prosecuted<lb></lb>
one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n911-3">Thomas Knowland</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-3" type="given" value="Thomas"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-3" type="surname" value="Knowland"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
the Servant of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n911-4">John Ross</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-4" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-4" type="surname" value="Ross"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n911-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
for Felony</p>
</div1>

View as Text