May Session 1790.

Middlesex

At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord
the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex
at the Session House for the said County (by
adjournment) on Thursday the Twenty seventh day
of May in the Thirteenth year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great.
Britain Etc Before William Mainwaring< no role > Esquire
Sir Sampson Wright< no role > Knight, Samuel Glasse< no role >
Herbert Mayo< no role > Doctors in Divinity , William Bleamire< no role >
William Phillimore< no role > , Richard Tayler, Nathaniel
Conant, David Walker< no role > , Robert Butler< no role > , John
Barnfather , Henry Holland< no role > , William Hyde< no role > , Jacob
Leroux, Edward Gray< no role > , Thomas Collins< no role > , Edward
Read, John Staples< no role > , John Spiller< no role > , Charles Sheppard< no role >
John Wilkes< no role > , Nicholas Bond< no role > Esquires and others
their Fellows Justices Etc.

The Case relative to Mr. Akermans Claim< no role > with Mr Woods
Opinion thereon being Read in the following Words Vizt.

Case.

The Gaol of Newgate which is situate in the City of
London is the common Prison and place of Security for Felons and
other Offenders as well for the City of London as for the County of
Middlesex and the Citizens of London have since the time of its
Erection had the Government and management of it without any
interference from the Magistracy or Inhabitants of the County of
Middlesex

The Citizens by Charter have the nomination and
Appointment of the Sheriff for the County of Middlesex and City of
London. The Sheriff usually nominates the Keeper of Newgate and
the Court of Aldermen receive such nomination and confirm the
Appointment.

The Court of Aldermen of the City of London have
uninterruptedly exercised this Right of Appointment and have from