April 1785
Middlesex
At the General Quarter Session of the peace of our
Lord the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex
at the Sessions House for the said County on Thursday
the Seventh day of April in the Twenty fifth Year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third
King
of Great Britain etc Before
William Mainwaring< no role >
Esquire
The Honourable
Henry Hobart< no role >
, Sir
Sampson
Wright< no role >
Sir
Robert Taylor< no role >
Knights
Samuel Glasse< no role >
Doctor in Divinity
;
Richard Paul Joddrell< no role >
,
Nathaniel
Conant< no role >
,
Nicholas Foster< no role >
,
Robert Butler< no role >
,
William Wright< no role >
Stephen Cole< no role >
,
Joseph Girdler< no role >
,
William Coleman< no role >
, Thomas
Cogan,
James Croft< no role >
,
Thomas Parker< no role >
,
Charles Sheppard< no role >
,
Henry Holland< no role >
Junr
.
Richard Holland< no role >
Junr
,
Jeremiah
Bentham< no role >
,
William Bleamire< no role >
, Jacob Leroux, Edmund
Pepys,
Richard Heaviside< no role >
,
Humphry Jackson< no role >
,
Thomas
Gordon< no role >
,
Edward Webster< no role >
,
James Fielding< no role >
,William
Heckford,
David Wilmot< no role >
,
Thomas Brooksbank< no role >
,
William Hyde< no role >
,
William Blackmore< no role >
,
John Staples< no role >
and
Joseph Faikney< no role >
Esquires
.
Mr Burchells Bond Executed
The Clerk of the Peace acquainted the Court That Mr.
Joseph
Burchell< no role >
the Treasurer
of he County had in Compliance with the
Order of this Court made at the time of his Election Entered into a
Bond with two Sureties in the manner and to the amount thereby
prescribed which Bond is deposited in the Office of the Clerk of
the Peace.
By Adjournment same day
Order for a Rate of £4000
Whereas by Virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the twelfth
year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second Intituled
"An Act for the more easy assessing collecting and Levying County
"rates" The Justices of the peace in that part of Great Britain called
England
within the respective Limits of their Commissions at their
General or Quarter Sessions or the greater part of them then and there
assembled having full power and authority from time to time to
make one General Rate or assessment for such Sum or Sums of
Money as the Justices in their discretion shall think sufficient
to answer all and every the Ends and purposes mentioned in ye said Act