The London Gazette.

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From Saturday March 7 . to Tuesday March 10, 1723 .

AT the Court at St. James's, the 9th Day of
March, 1723 .

PRESENT,

The King's most Excellent Majesty in His Privy
Council.

WHEREAS by an Act made in the
last Session of Parliament, Entituled, An
Act for the more effectual punishing wicked and
will disposed [..] ned in Disguise,
and doing Injuries and Violencies to the Persons
and Properties of His Majesty's Subjects, and for
the more speedy bringing [..] is to Justice:
it is (among other Things) Enacted, That if any
Person or Persons, from and after the 1st Day of
June, in the Year of our Lord 1723, being armed
with Swords, Fire Arms or other offensive Weapons,
and having his or their Faces blacked, or being
otherwise disguised, should appear in any Forrest,
Chase, Park, Paddock, or Grounds inclosed with
any Wall, Pale, or other Fences, wherein any
Deer had been or should be usually kept, or in
any Warren or Place, where Hares or Conies had
been or should be usually kept, or in any High
Road, open Heath, Common or Down, or should
unlawfully and willfully hunt, would, kill, de-
stroy, or Steal any Red or Fallow Deer. or unlaw-
fully rob any Warren or Place where Conies or
Hares were usually kept, of should unlawfully
steal or take away any Fish out of any River or
Pond; or if any Person or Persons from and after
the said 1st Day of June, should unlawfully and
Wilfully hunt, wound, kill, destroy, or steal any
Red or Fallow Deer, fed or kept in any Places in any
of His Majesty's Forrests, or Chases, which were
or should be inclosed with Pales, Rails, or other
Fences, or in any Park, Paddock, or Grounds in-
closed, where Deer had b [..] or should be usually
kept, or should unlawfully and maliciously break
down the Head or Mound of any Fifth Pond,
whereby the Fish should be lost or destroyed; or
should unlawfully and maliciously kill, maim, or
wound any Cattle, or cut down or otherwise
destroy any Trees planted in any Avenue, or
growing in any Garden, Orchard, or Plantation
for Ornament, Shelter, or Profit, or should set
Fire to any House, Barn, or Outhouses, or to any
Hovell, Cock, Mow, or Stack or Corn, Straw,
Hay, or Wood, or should wilfully and maliciously
shoo [..] at any Person in any Dwelling-House or
other Place, or should knowingly send any Letter
without any Name subscribed thereto, or signed
witha fictitious Name, demanding Money, Veni-
son, or other valuable Thing, or should forcibly
rescue any Person, being lawfully in Custody of
any Officer or other Person for any of the Of-
fences beforementioned; or if any Person or Per-
sons should, by Gift or Promise of Money or other
Reward, procure any of His Majesty's Subjects
to Joyn him or them in any such unlawful
Act, every Person so offending, being thereof
lawfully convicted, should be adjudged Guilty
of Felony, and should suffer Death as in
Cases or Felony, without Benefit of Clergy.
And whereas it is by the said Act further
Enacted. That for the more easy and speedy
bringing the Offenders against the said Act to
Justice, if any Person or Persons should be char-
ged with being Guilty of any of the Offences
aforesaid, before any two or more of His Majesty's
Justices of the Peace of the County where such
Offence or Offences were or should be committed,
by Information of one or more Credible Person
or Persons upon Oath by him or them to be sub-
scribed, such Justices before whom such In-
formations should be made as aforesaid, should
forthwith certify under their Hands and Seals,
and return such Information to one of the princi-

[Price Three Half Pence.]

pal Secretaries of State of His Majesty, His Heirs
or Successors, who is by the said Act required to
lay the same as soon as conveniently might be be-
fore His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in his
or their Privy Council; whereupon it should
and might be lawful for his Majesty, His H [..]
or Successors, to make His or their Order in His
or their said Privy Council, thereby requiring and
commanding such Offender of Offenders to sur-
render him or themselves, within the Space of
Forty Days, to any of His Majesty's Justices of
the Court of King's-Bench, or to any one of His
Majesty's Justices of the Peace, to the End that
he or they might be forthcoming to answer the
Offence or Offences wherewith he or they should
to stand charged, according to due Course of
Law; which Order should be printed and pub-
lished in the next London Gazette, and should
forthwith be transmitted to the Sheriff of the
County where the Offence should be committed.
and should, within six Days after the Receipt
thereof, be proclaimed by him or his Officers
between the Hours of Ten in the Morning and
Two in the Afternoon in the Market Places, up-
on the respective Market Days of two Market
Towns in the same County near the Places where
such Offences should have been committed, and
a true Copy of such Order should be affixed upon
some publick Place in such Market Towns; and
in case such Offender or Offenders should not
surrender him or themselves, pursuant to such
Order of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors,
to be made in Council as aforesaid, he or they
so neglecting or refusing to surrender him or
themselves as aforesaid, should, from the Day ap-
pointed [..] aforesaid
be adjudged, deemed, and taken to be convicted
and attainted of Felony, and should suffer Pains of
Death as in case of a Person convicted and at-
tainted by Verdict and Judgment of Felony
without Benefit of Glergy; and that it should be
lawful to and for the Court of Kings-Bench, or
the Justices of Oyer and Terminer, or General
Goal-Delivery for the County where the Offence
should be sworn in such Information to have been
committed, upon producing to them such Order
in Council under the Seal of the said Council, to
award Execution against such Offender and Of-
fenders in such manner as if he or they had been
convicted and attainted in the said Court of
King's-Bench, or before such Justices of Oyer
and Terminer, or General Goal-Delivery respec-
tively, as by the said Act may more fully ap-
pear. And whereas in Pursuance of the Sta-
tute in that Case made and Provided, one of
His Majesty's Prinicipal Secretaries of State did
this Day lay before His Majesty in His Privy-
Council, the Information of William Wilson< no role > ,
Thomas Smith< no role > , and Edward Fitzpatrick< no role > , be-
ing credible Persons taken on their respective
Oaths, the 19th Day of October, in the Year
of our Lord 1723 , at Endfield in the County
of Middlesex , before Henry Cartwright< no role > and
Richard Arnold< no role > , Esqrs; two of His Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the said County of Middle-
sex , according to the Form of the Statues in that
Case made and provided. Which said Informa-
tion was, by Certificate in Writing under the
Hands and Seals of the said Henry Cartwright< no role >
and Richard Arnold< no role > , bearing Date the said 19th
Day of October, 1723 , certified and by them re-
turned to the Right Honourable Robert Walpole< no role > ,
Esq; being at the Time of making such Certifi-
cate and Return one of His Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State , and is in the Words and Fi-
gures following.

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