Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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February 1774 - December 1783

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Image 264 of 467 July 1779


Vigour in the performance of this Service We vid Your Grace
very heartily farewell From the Council Chamber at St. James's
the 30th. day of June 1779.

Your Grace's very loving Friends

Onslow
Weymouth
Ashburnham
Stormont
Edgeumbe
Dartmouth C. P. S.

To His Grace Hugh Duke of Northumberland
Custos Rotulorum of the County of Middlesex }

Which said Letter and Order of Council being read This Court
doth Resolve and Order that the said Order of Council be put
into Strict Execution throughout this County

And it is further Resolved that it be
and it is hereby recommended to his Majestys Justices of the peace
for this County to meet in their respective Divisions to carry the said
Order of Council into immediate Execution And that it be further
recommended to them that no Warrant be issued for this purpose
unless Signed by three Justices and that in such Warrant the
time and place for the Return of the Warrant be particularly
mentioned And it is further Resolved and Recommended
that General Privy Search Warrants (in the form herewith Sent)
be issued in every Division of this County on Wednesday the Twenty
first day of July Instant and that the Clerk of the peace do give
notice of these Orders and Resolutions to his Majestys Justices of the
peace residing in such Divisions who are requested to observe
the most profound Secrecy in regard to the time of the Execution
thereof. And in further prosecution of this Service this Session
is adjourned until Friday the Twenty third day of July Instant
to be then again holden at Hicks Hall at Twelve O Clock at noon
precisely. at which time his Majestys Justices of the peace residing
in such Divisions are desired to report there proceedings herein to
the Court.




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