January 1779

Machin Esquires or any three of them be and they are hereby appointed
a Committee to wait upon the Duke and request the favour of his Grace to
present the same to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury Ordered that
the Clerk of the peace do Sign the said Memorial for and on behalf of
his Majestys Justices of the peace for this County

By adjournment same day

This Court having observed that many heavy burthens
have lately been lain upon this County by several Acts of Parliament that
have been hurried through both houses and which might perhaps have
been avoided or lessened if his Majestys Justices of the peace for this County
had received timely notice thereof It is Ordered that the Cryer do
regularly purchase and duly file the Votes of the House of Commons and
that he do deliver the same to the Deputy Clerk of the peace for this County at
his Office to be by him kept there for the inspection of such of his Majestys
Justices of the peace as may please to Examine the same during the
intervals between the Sessions of the peace to be holden for this County and
also that the Cryer do on the first day of each Session of the peace take care
to have the same in his possession ready to be produced to the Court when
called for

By adjournment same day

It is Ordered by this Court that Richard Hewit< no role > Gentleman
High Constable within the Hundred of Edmonton do personally attend
and produce before the Court of the next General Session of the peace to be
holden for this County at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the said
County on Thursday the Eighteenth day of February next at Three of the
Clock in the afternoon of the same day a true and perfect account in writing
of all Manies by him received during his Continuance in his office of
High Constable for relief of married Soldiers and Mariners the Marshalsea
Kings Bench and Hospitals for the passing and relieving Vagrants for
repair of the public Bridges of this County and for repair of the House of
Correction at Clerkenwell in the same County or for any of the purposes aforesaid
or for any other of the purposes to which the monies raised upon this
County by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Twelfth
Year of the Region of his late Majesty King George the Second are applicable
by Law and of his payments out of the same together with the Receipts and
Vouchers to him given for such payments and also a true account in
Writing of all such Arrears as are yet standing out and unreceived
upon