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By Adjournment Saturday 26th. February 1780

Charles Justus Richards one of the Bailiffs of the
Sheriff of Middlesex of the Hundred of Ossulston, in the County of
Middlesex returned to the Court Two Indictments the one against
Stephen Broadstreet< no role > for Felony the other against William Vandeput< no role >
for a Misdemeanour which had been [..] ered to him by order of this
Court yesterday in Order to their being taken and delivered to him asusual
to the Court of the Session of Goal Delivery of Newgate and informed the
Court that he did carry the said Bills of Indictment to the Court of
Goal Delivery of Newgate setting at the Old Bailey that he offend the
said Bills of Indictments to the Clerk of the Arraigns there sitting in
Court who told the said Richards he might take the said Indictments
back to Hicks Hall as he could not receive them by the Orders of that
Court That said Richards then addressed himself to Mr. Baron Perrin
who sat as Judge in the said Court to know what he Richards was to
do with said Indictments who said the officer of the Court had done very
right in refusing to receive the said Indictments and that he said
Richards might do what he would with said Indictments That said
Richards received said Bills of Indictment about half an hour after
Two O Clock on Friday the 25th. of February and that he tendered the said
Bills of Indictment to the Clerk of Arraigns at the Old Bailey about
Three O Clock of the same day

Examination Taken in Open Court
[..] y and year first above mentioned.}

Chas. Lyles< no role >

Whereupon Sir George Booth< no role > Baronet
George Allcock< no role > Esquire and Charles Sheppard< no role > Esquire being the only
Justices present in Court did determine to go to the Court of Goal
Delivery at the Old Bailey and deliver the said Indictments into
the said Court of Goal Delivery with their own hands as by law they
ought to do In Consequence of which determination the said three Justices
did then immediately go to the Session House in the Old Bailey and
then and there the said Sir George Booth< no role > with the assent Privity an [..]
in the presence of the live other Gentlemen did in Open Court present




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