Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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28th October 1789 - 5th December 1795

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Septemr 1795.

Allowance except upon special request made by the medical Person
attending the Prison or Order of the Court. and that no Bread
or other Food be sold within the Prison and that the inquiry into
this Subject be referred to the Building Committee.

By Adjournment same day.

The following Memorial of Mr. Edward Hall< no role > being laid
before the Court and Read Vizt.

"To the Worshipful William Mainwaring< no role > Esqr Chairman of the Sessions
and the rest of His Majestys Justices of the Peace of the County of
Middlesex at this present Session assembled.

The Memorial of Edward Hall< no role > Cryer and< no role >
Housekeeper at the Session House for the County of
Middlesex .

Humbly Sheweth

That Your Memorialist regrets the necessity of
soliciting Your Worships attention to the advanced price of Wine,
previous to which Your Memorialist never paid more than 22
Shillings per Dozen for Wine ready for drinking but now pays 34
Shillings per Dozen which is one Shilling per Bottle more than he
ever paid, Your Memorialist therefore humbly prays Your Worships
will be pleased to take this Memorial into your consideration and
to grant him an Allowance adiquate to the advanced price of Wine.
and your Memorialist takes this opportunity to assure your Worships
that he is not forgetful of your goodness in having granted him an
additional Allowance for the Session Dinners for which he offers his
sincere thanks, and subscribes himself your worships most dutiful and
devoted Servant.

Edward Hall< no role > .

Resolved that the consideration of the said Memorial
be referred to the Committee of Accounts and Report their Opinion
thereon to the Court and whether the Court can be better served
and in what way.




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