Middlesex

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the
King begun and holden for the County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall in
St John Street in the same County on Monday the tenth day of January
in the fourteenth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender
of the faith and so forth and from frence continued by several adjournment untill this day to wit Thursday the 13 day of the same month of January in the Year of aforesaid and on this same Thursday the thirteenth day
of January in the same Year holden by adjournment aforesaid at
Hicks Hall aforesaid before Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knight Benjamin
Cowley< no role > John Walford< no role > Nathan Carrington< no role > Esquires and others their
fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the peace of
our said Lord the King in the County aforesaid and also to hear and
determine divers felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanours committee
in the same County.

Whereas at the General Quarter Session of the peace begun and holden for the said County of
Middlesex at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the same County on Monday the thirteenth day of
July in the twelfth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and
so forth and from thence continued by several adjounments until Monday the Seventh day of Septemr
in the twelfth Year aforesaid and on the said Monday the said Seventh day of September in the twelfth
Year aforesaid holden by adjournment at Hicks Hall aforesaid in the said County Before Sir John Hawkins< no role >
Knt. Benjamin Cowley< no role > Saunders Welch< no role > Thomas Bishop< no role > and others their Fellows Justices of our said
Lord the King assigned to keep the peace of our said Lord the King in the County aforesaid and also to
hear and determine divers felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanour committed in the said County
Caleb Peacock< no role > Herb Homan< no role > Tho Lewis< no role > Richd Remnant< no role > Saml Haworth< no role > Edwd. Birch< no role > Wm Leech< no role > Chas Harris< no role > John Starst< no role > John Campbell< no role > George Smart< no role > John Bird< no role > Richd Parkes< no role > Inhabitants of the parishes of Saint Giles in the fields and St George
Bloomsbury in the said County whose names were thereto [..] behalf of themselves and
the rest of the Inhabitants of the said Parishes Exhibit to the Justices of our said Lord the King last
abovementioned their petition and Appeal setting forth that William Clarke< no role > an Householder and
Inhabitant of the said Parish of Saint Giles in the fields served the Office of Overseer of the Poor of the said
Parish for the Year ending at or about Easter then last, and did during his said Office by virtue of a Rate
duly made for that purpose and otherwise collect and receive divers sums of Money for the Relief and
Support of the Poor of the said Parishes and after having collected and received such sums of Money did refuse
and neglect to apply the same to and for the relief and Support of such Poor but did retain a great part thereof
in his hands a Long time after the expitation of his said Office and until he was compelled by Law to deliver
the same over to his Successors That being thereunto compelled as aforesaid he the said William Clarke< no role >
delivered an account verifyed upon his oath before two of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the said County
said to be a true account of all monies by him received and paid by virtue of his said Office which said
Account the petitioners apprehended did not contain nor was charged with all and every sum and Sums
of Mony by him received as aforesaid That in Discharge of the Monies said by him to be collected and received
the said Account did Contain Charges of very large Sums of Mony said to be paid to casual poor without stating
any particulars of the necessities of such poor or whether they belonged to the said Parishes or either of them or any
reasons why the said monies were paid nor did he the said William Clarke< no role > produce any authority for such
Payments that the said William Clarke< no role > had in the opinion of the said Petitioners been very negligent in
collecting the Rate made as aforesaid for the relief of the poor of the said Parishes during his said Office
and had misapplied a great part of the Mony that was by him collected and received his said Account
containing many charges which the petitioners apprehended were very unreasonable Whereby the petitioners
found themselves aggrieved Whereupon at the request of the said Petitioners It was ordered by the
Court that the benefit of their said Appeal should be saved unto them and that the hearing and determination
thereof should be and the same were then and there adjourned until the then next General Quarter Session of
the peace of our Lord the King to be holden for the said County And that on Notice therefore in the mean
time to be given to the said William Clarke< no role > he the said William Clarke< no role > and all persons concerned should