The Representation of us whose names are hereun to subscribed
Justices of the peace
for the County of Middlesex
acting Finsburry
Division
in the said County to the County General Quarter session of
the peace hold for the said County against Robert Montgomery< no role >
Clerk
to Robert Tothill< no role >
Esquires
one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace
for
the said Divisions
That at the General Renewing of Lycences hotern at Hicks Hall the
seventh day of September last the said Robert Montgomery< no role >
attented and
acted as one of the Clerks (the his said Master Robert Tothill< no role >
Esquire
was-
not present) and look instructions and filled up several lycencesThat
application was made to us on the behalf of one Richard Berriff< no role >
for a
Lycence for an old House the sign of the Coath and Houses in saint Johns
Square
upon whith the said Montgomery informed us that he had just before
filled up a Lycence for the same House in the name of one Henry Greenwood< no role >
We immediately called for the said Greenwood but he was gone we then ordered
that the said Lyronus made and to Greenwood (as the same was made out without
our privity on consent) to [..] main in the hands of the Clerk of the peace till the
next meeting and ordered [..] and Greenwood [..] summoned to attend
The said Greenwood [..] according [..] three day of
[..] at the Tha [..] conseat [..]
[..] himself to M [..] are a [..] sucessed.
him shilling to put [..] come being [..] that the gave
forward on the [..] Seven Shillings for
the Lycence being asked [..] cause had been ever [..] before he answered
not to his Know lodge we the [..] sked him if he at know hedged any Rerognizant at the
time the Lycence was filled to the answered he did not for Montgomery told him he
had done and said him go away Mr. Richard Richardson< no role >
the said Greenwoods
Land lord being examined on his Oath declared that he let the said House to
Greenwood for no other purpose than he sell Greens and fruit and fora pubblick
House and that same had never been a Lycence House and that the Coach and
House was the next room to Greenwoods and was an old Lycence House for therefore
conceive that the said Montgomery fillled up the said Lycence for Greenwood in the
name of the Coach and House on purpose to impose it on us as the real House that
used to the Lycenced
That the said Robert montgomery< no role >
procured a Certificate by the
Church wardens and overseers of all poor of the Parish of saint James Clerkwell
Recommanding One Samuel Kent< no role >
to sell aboat the sign of the Red Lyon in Saint
John Street
and also an Order of leave for that purpose under the hand of the said
Robert Tothill< no role >
Esquire in which we believe the said Mr. Tothill was grossly imposed
upon by the said Montgomery the said thouse was never Lycenced before but the
said order had not the desired Effect for upon an application at the Lenice office
by the said kent to obtain a spirituons Lyuor Lycence the said was Rejected as not
being signed by two Justices That Jane the & life of the said Samuel Kent< no role >
gave to the said
Montgomery Five Shillings for the said certificate and Three Guineas for the said
order That Montgomery did not ask her for any money but she gave it him Voluntarily
for obtain her a Lycence as it was a new House and therfore Might meet with objections