Middlesex

By Adjournment on Thursday the 17 day
of October 1776

Justices present
Sir John Hawkins< no role >
Thos. Brooksbank< no role >
David Wilmot< no role >
Thos. Fellows< no role >
Sir Geo: Booth< no role >
Sir John Chetmode< no role >
Geo Alcock< no role >
John Walford< no role >
John Sherwood< no role >
Robert Butler< no role >
David Walker< no role >
John Bosworth< no role >
Willm. Kitchiner< no role >
James Spagg< no role >
John Spencer Colepeper< no role >
Thoms Bishop< no role >
John Barnfather< no role >
Parker Rowland< no role >
Stephen Guion< no role >
Jasper Clarke< no role >
James Crofts< no role >

John Sherwood< no role > Esquire one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for
this County in his place reported that on the opening of the present Session
at the Guildhall Westminster he being in the Chair 'Amotion' had been
made and Carried for the payment of a Sum of Money to a person who
had been appointed by the Justices of the peace for the City of Westminster
as Surgeon and Apothecary to Tithill fields Bridewell under a late Act
of parliament but that being of opinion it was an irregular
proceeding he desired the opinion of the Court upon the same
whereupon on the Motion being called for it was read as follows Vizt.
"Moved that W. Glover Surgeon and Apothecary who was
"appointed by the Justices of the peace for the City and Liberty of
"Westminster to take Care of the prisoners confined in Tothill fields
"Bridewell under the late Act of Parliament for cleansing Goals
"be paid to this day for his time and Medicines under the said
"appointment
and immediately afterwards Mr. Benson the County Treasurer laid
before the Court the following order of the Westminster Session which
had been delivered to him on the 15 day of October Instant by the
Deputy Clerk of the peace for the City and Liberty of Westminster
and the same being read as follows Vizt.

City Borough and Town
of Westminster in the
County of Middlesex }

At the General Quarter Session of the peace of our Lord the
King holden at the Guildhall in and for the City and
Liberty of Westminster City adjournment on Thursday
theTenth day of Octoberin the Sixteenth Year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great
Britain Etc. Before Sir John Fielding< no role > Knight George
Reid< no role > William Kitchener< no role > Esquires and others them
fellows Justice of our said Lord the King assigned to
keep the peace and also to hear and determine divers
felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanours committed
in the said Liberty.

Robt. Pell< no role >
Willm. Franks< no role >
Edward Hodsoll< no role >
Thos. Fryn. Cotton< no role >
William Mainwaring< no role >
John Curtis< no role >
James Penleaze< no role >
John Brettell< no role >
Thos. Parker< no role >
James Spalding< no role >
William Quarril< no role >
John Staples< no role >
Sir Chas. Whitworth< no role >
Benjn Robertson< no role >
John Gretton< no role >
Francis Ascough< no role >
Henry Lambe< no role >
Willm. Gascoinge< no role >

Whereas by the Statute of the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of his
present Majesty Intituled An Act for preserving the health
of Prisoners in Goal and preventing the Goal distemper It is enacted
that the Justice of the peace in that part of Great Britain called
England and Walls within their several Jurisdiction in their
Quarter Session assembled are authourized and required to appoint
an experienced Surgeon and Apothecary at a Stated Salary to
attend each Goal or Prison respectively And whereas at the
General Quarter Session of the peace holden at the Guild hall
in and for the said City and Liberty on Tuesday the Fifteenth
day of January in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of his present