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February 1722

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that year and the life has been renewed and executed every year since till
the last which was for £110: P Anum and expired the 5th of January last past,
since which Mrs Seymore does admitt She has Demanded £110: Kent for the
future which the said Geary declines to comply with.

The Comittee hereupon Submit

(1)
agreed to


That the first Agreement which the said Geary claims a performance of
and alledges to be broke mims juste by Mrs Seymor's demanding a hundred
pounds a Year is not Subsisting (1) Because it was in Terms so long as both
parties should agree, and was waived by the Second about a Year after,
which Second was carryed into Execution as also by the several Annual
ones made and executed since, which were variant from it.

(2)
agreed to


The last of them expiring 5th January last The Comittee Submitt that
there is now no Subsisting Agreement between the parties at all.

The Comitte however in Order to lay before the Court more fully the
State of the Case between the said Seymor and Geary have examined into
the accounts paid before them by both the said parties relating to the Receipts
and Disbursements in the office of Cryer and Housekeeper. and do find that
in the most considerable Articles there is little variance between them.

Viz: in the accounts of Disbursements for your Entertainment for 6 years
ending January Sessions 1720/21 amounting to the Summ of £1467:19s:0d
the parties do not differ more than £2:11s: which the said Geary charges as
expended more than Mrs Seymore.

In the Article of Receipts from thethen HousekeeperSheriff for Dinners and
over Wine received from the Clark of the peace amounting for 6 Years ending
last January Sessions to £1463: 4s: the difference between the said two.
accounts are but £8:14s: which the said Geary charges less than the said Seymore.

Your Comittee finding those accounts agree so near could the rather depend
upon them in order to form a Judgment of the Truth of the whole account.

Your Comittee did likewise peruse the annual Demands of the said Geary in
his account for wear and tear of Linnen Etc and for loss by Licences not delivered
out and did think the said Demands reasonable though no particular account
was produced of them.

Upon the whole of the said Geary's account which the Comittee finding to be
true in the largest and most material Articles have reason to think it is so in
the rest it appears that the said Geary has for 6 years past ending last Sessions
received from Licences Fees of the Cryer and Mony paid by the Sheriff and
over Wine the Summ of £2815 and has expended in Kent provisions including
the allowances above mentioned for wear and tear, Licences not delivered
out and petty charges the Summ of £2591: so that the clear gain of the said
Geary for 6 years amounts to £224: which is every year £37:6s:8d

The Comittee Submit it to the Judgment of the Court whether such a Summ
is reasonable wages for the Services of the said Geary is obliged to perform Viz:

His Attendance with his Wife and Sons every Sessions so buy in provisions
to Dress them to wait at Table.

For delivering Orders of Court to the several Constables in all parts of the
County.

For attending the renewing of Licences all over the County and maintaining




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