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

May 1773

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: LMSMPS506300070

Image 70 of 71


Warwickshire to wit


At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King holden at Warwick in and for the said County
on Tuesday in the first Week next after the Clause of Easter that is to say the twentieth Day of April in the thirteenth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King over Great Britain and so forth And in the Year of
our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy three Before Joseph Davis< no role > Clerk David Lewis< no role > Barnabas
Horseman
< no role > Samuel Aylworth< no role > Esquires and Thomas Hall< no role > Clerkand others Keepers of the Peace of our said Lord
the king and also Justices of the said King appointed to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other
Misdemeanors done and committed in the said County and for the Quorum and so forth

A Particular of the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever to be brought into the County of Warwick by any Common
Waggoner or Carrier assessed and rated by the said Justices at the said General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in Pursuance of
and according to an Act of Parliament made in the third Year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary Intitled An
Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways and for setling the Rates of Carriage of Goods (to wit)

£ S D

£112 to the
Hundred}


For every Hundred Weight of Goods and so Proportionably for a greater or less Weight (except
small Parcels not exceeding ten Pounds Weight) that shall be carried sixty Miles the said
Miles to be taken according to the ordinary and usual Computation of Miles used in the
several and respective Places to which such Goods shall be carried}
0..3..6

£112ll to the
Hundred}


For every Hundred Weight of Goods and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight (except small
Parcels not exceeding ten Pounds Weight) that shall be carried further than sixty Miles to
Pay for every ten Miles more than Sixty Miles and so Proportionably for every greater or lesser
Number of Miles more than sixty Miles The said Miles to be taken and computed as above}
0..0..6

Which Rates and Assessments are to be Certified to the several Mayors and other Chief Officers of every Marker Town within this
County to be hung up in some Publick Place and also in every Excise Office within this County to which all persons may refers
for their Information And to the End that none may ignorantly offend herein this Court thinks it proper hereby to give
Notice that by the aforesaid Act of Parliament no Common Waggoner or Carrier is to take for Carriage of such Goods above the
Rates and Prices so set, upon Pain of Five Pounds for every Offence to be levied by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods
by Warrant of any two Justices of the Peace where such Waggoner or Carrier shall reside to the Use of the Party grieved

By the Court
Hewitt

I Joseph Hewitt< no role > Clerk of the Peace for the County of Warwick do Certify to the Clerk of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex that the above is a true Copy and Particular of the Rate and Assessment for the Carriage of Goods
by any Common Waggoner or Carrier into the County of Warwick as made by the Justices above named at the General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace abovementioned in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament made in the Third Year of the Reign of King William
and Queen Mary for the better repairing and amending the Highways and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods In
Testimony whereof I the said Joseph Hewitt< no role > Clerk of the Peace aforesaid have hereunto set my Hand this Twenty third
day of April one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy three

Jos: Hewitt< no role > Clerk of the Peace for the said
County of Warwick




View as XML