Middlesex Sessions:
Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents
SM | PS

September 1770

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: LMSMPS506030039

Image 39 of 73


At the General Session of the Peace held at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in [..] Middlesex [..]
September in the Year [..] Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy and in the Tenth Year of the [..]
Britain France Ireland King Defender of the Fa [..] and soforth before John Hawkins< no role > Bartholomew [..]
George Mercer< no role > the Younger Esquires and others their fellows Justices of our Sovereign Lord [..]
Lord the King in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid and also to hear and Determine Divers Felonies Trespasses and other [..] deeds [..]
[..] chor [..] wein the County of Middlesex aforesaid Mariner Crave [..] Security of the [..]
Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex Mariner for fear of Danger to his Life or Personal Perjury and [..] from Mo [..]

First


That this Informant in theMonth of May in the Year One Thousand seven hundred and Sixty [..]
Captain and Commander of a certain Ship or Sessel called the Granby which during all the [..] aforesaid was and Still [..]
England [..] ding to the East Indies Commonly called the East Indies Company.

Secondly


That is about theMonth of January One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Eight the Said George Clock [..] Bo [..] she said Ship [..]
under the Command of Joseph Jackson< no role > Since Deceased as a Foremast Man to Perfe [..] she said Ship [..] say [..] part of London to the [..]
[..] and from thence back to London.

Thirdly


That [..] George Clarke< no role > whilst he was on board the aforesaid Ship under the Company [..] frequently [..]
[..] aly manner

FourthlyThat the aforesaid Ship Arrived at the part of London on or about the Nineteenth [..] of our [..] One thousand and [..] Seventy when this
[..] mant according to Custom long used in the Service of the said East Indies Company where [..] and Mar [..] Ordered [..]
then belonging to the Said [..] to go on Shore having discharged them from all farther Date [..] on boa [..] Ship And [..] and to [..]
he had given such Order was the said George Clarke< no role > and this Informant Expected that she [..] he would [..]
being Commander of the said Ship had a right [..] Discharge him.

FifthlyThat in the afternoon of the said Cas [..] mentioned Day, some houses after this Informant had discharge [..] said George Clark< no role > and given him such [..] Under, he to [..]
Street Surprize, Saw the said George Clarke< no role > on board the aforesaid Ship Whereupon this Informant Asked him [..] why he did not go on there? To which the said
George Clark< no role > is a Very Insolent manner Answered in the Presence and hearing of Robert Phillips< no role > the first Mate [..] d Nathaniel [..] the second Mate of the said [..] Justice
[..] on board is [..] as I Please you are a Second [..] rell and a Rascall and the first Time I [..] et you on Shore I [..] you" or in Words to that effect And [..] said George
Clarke
< no role > did at the same time [..] ly revile this Informant with many other Approbrico [..] Words and did make [..] various [..] And threaty Against [..]
by which this Informant Understood that the said George Clarke< no role > meant that when a [..] Warrant Oppertunity shall [..] on there he would take away [..]
[..] Informant or otherwise do him [..] great and bodily hange.

[..] Informant Saith [..] for the several [..] and Reasons aforesaid and f [..] the [..] Conduct of the said George Clarke< no role > [..] board [..] said [..]
[..] he was under the Command of him his Informant he [..] Informant hath great C [..] that his life with [..]
[..] from the said George Clark< no role > and the he [..] Cause Security of the peace against the said George Clarke< no role > [..] any M [..] of
aid George Clarke< no role > but only from fear of [..]

[..] ed Exhibitant was [..] to the truth
[..] at Hicks Hall [..] [..] Year
first [..] withon

By the Court
Butler




View as XML