Middx ss:

Ad General Session pacis Dui Regis tent P Com Middx apnd Hicks hall in St. John street in Com prd. P adjorn
die Jovis scilt sexto die Decembris anno regui Dui Georgij nunc Regis Magne Britannie Etc tertio coram
Johe Milner< no role > Armigero Henrico Fetherston< no role > Bart Rico Gough< no role > Jacobo Misson< no role > Militibus Martino Ryder< no role > Josepho
offley< no role > Robto Thornhill< no role > Rico Woollaston< no role > Johe Metcalfe< no role > Johe Fuller< no role > Johe Venner< no role > Marmaduco Bealing< no role > Armigeris
& al socijs Sins Justic dci Dui Regis as pacem in Com prd. conservand necnon ad divers felon tusgr & al
malefacta in eodem Com Ppetrat audiend & terminand assign

Whereas It appeareth to this Court that great inconvenience have arison & frequent refleccons been cast on
the JusticesComiconof the peace of this County occasioned by some of theirJustices of the peacebaileing or dischargeing of persons
apprehended upon warrants granted or comitted to Newgate, New Prison or the House of Correccon by one or more
Justices of this County liveing at distance without the knowledge or privity of the Justice or Justices who reced the
Informacon granted such warrant or comitted such persons, And whereas alsoe many abuses have arisen from
Justices granting of licences to sell ale or beer by Retail & putting in execucon divers penal laws & statutes
against persons liveing remote from them and in such Divisions & parishes where the characters & substance
of the persons could not possibly be known to the Justices soe acting, whereby it is made difficult for the Justices
to act in such cases wth. a due regard to the publique & to the persons concernedFor preventing and avoyding
these & the like inconveinencys for the future It is thought fit &proper toRecomended by this Cort to the Justices of the peace of this
County to act in their severall Divisions according to thefollowingRules & direccons(vizt.)fol (vizt.)

That before they bail or discharge any Offender who is or shall be appprehended or comitted to any Goal within this County
by any warrant from any Justice or Justices of the peace inhabiting within the weekly Bills of mortality in this County they
doe send to such Justice or Justices of the peace who granted such warrant or made such comittmt. and receive from him
or them an accompt of the offence & charge agt. such Offender, and this especially in cases of suspicon of felony, and
in all Parochial cases as bastardy keeping of disorderly houses, prosecucons agt. Parish Officers & the like,

That they doe not grant licences for selling of ale been or other liquors by Retail to any person liveing out of the
parish where the sd. Justice of peace dwellsor is concernedstet unless in cases where noe acting Justices of the peace doe dwell within the
parish, and in such cases that they be desired to confine themselves to their respective Divisions, And that even in
their own parishes or Divisions they grant noe licence to any whose licence hath been taken away or supprest
or refused to be renewed by other Justices of the peace without acquainting the Justices of the peace who suppress'd or refused to renew
the same,

That for avoyding oppression by Informers & other great inconveniencys in putting in execucon the laws agt. such persons
who sell drink on Sundays or in short & unsealed measures or neglect to sett up lights, & in all other offences of the
like nature, they doe confine themselves to the respective parishes wherein they dwell And if any come to inform
agt. persons liveing in distant or other parishes that they doe first direct such Informers to apply to some Justice of the peace within the
parish where the Offender lives, and if noe Justice of the peace lives within that parish then to some Justice of the peace within that Division,

That for the more strict observance of the severall Orders already made or to be by this Court for the better &
more effectually obliging Constables Headboroughs & other Peace Officers to doe their dutys and to see that the laws &
Statutes of this Kingdom and the Orders of this Court be putt in execucon, It is particularly Recomended to the
Justices of the peace to be watchfull over the Officers of their parishes & in their Divisions, and where they find any neglect or
abuse in them to take some proper care that the Officers soe offending may be punished according to their Demerit,

That for preventing publique clamor & law suits occasioned by Justices of the peace who liveing at a distance shall or may be
applyed to in order to pass the accompts of Overseers of the poor of distant parishes to allow ofmake & grantpoors Rates or any other
parochial Rates & to give Orders for releife of the poor, or the like altho' severall acting Justices of the peace live in the sd.
parishes or in the Neighbourhood, The Justices of the peace of this County are desired to for beare acting in any of the
aforesaid or like cases in any parish where there are Justices of the peace inhabiting or in case noe acting Justice of the peace inhabits in
the sd. parish to referr the matters to the Justices of peace of the neighbouring parishes,