Middlesex
.
At the General Quarter Session
of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for the County
of Middlesex
at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street
in
the said County (by Adjournment on Thursday the
Twenty first day of April in the Thirteenth year of
the Reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third King
of Great Britain Etc Before Sir
John Hawkins< no role >
Knight
The Right Honorable Lord Dudley and Ward
Benjamin Cowley< no role >
,
Saunders
Welch< no role >
John Spencer Colepeper< no role >
John Barnfather< no role >
James
Spagg< no role >
William Shakespear< no role >
Jonathan Chadwick Durden< no role >
John Machin< no role >
John Walford< no role >
Gerrard Howard< no role >
Burford
Camper< no role >
John Sherwood< no role >
Jeremiah Bentham< no role >
David
Wilmot< no role >
,
Thomas Kynaston< no role >
Thomas Bishop< no role >
,
George
Mercer< no role >
Junior
Thomas Fellows< no role >
Joseph Keeling< no role >
John Adam< no role >
Frederick Hesse< no role >
Charles Dodd< no role >
Esquires
and others their fellows Justices of our said Lord the
King assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid
and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses
and other Misdemeanors committed in the same County
The Presentment of the Grand Jury of the Second of May
last of the state of the Prisons of this County and on Order of this day
for dissolving the late existing Committees appointed for consideration of the
rebuilding or repairing the same being read And it appearing to this
Court as well by the aforesaid presentment as otherwise that the two
Goals of New Prison
and the House of Correction at Clerkenwell
are
greatly out of repair and in so weak and insecure a state as not to be
sufficient for the safe Custody of the Felones and others necessarily
from time to time confined therein Resolved and Ordered that
the said several Goals of Clerkenwell Bridewell
and New Prison
be
forthwith effectually repaired under the direction of a Committee of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for this County to be in that Behalf ap
pointed and that the Justices named in the two several Orders of this
Court of the Thirtieth of April 1772 and the Twenty second of October
last or either of them together with John Spencer Colepeper< no role >
; Joseph
Keeling< no role >
and John Cox< no role >
Esquires be such Committee That the said
Committee do meet at this place on Wednesday next at Ten O' Clock
in the forenoon and at such other times and places as they shall
think fit That such able Surveyor as the said Committee shall in