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October 1776

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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 Guild hall in and for the City and Liberty of Westminster (by
Adjournment) On Thursday the Tenthday of October in 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 their Fellows Justices of Our
said Lord the King Assigned to keep the Peace and also to hear and
Determine Diverse Felonies Trespasses and Misdemeanors Commited
in the said Liberty

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 Justices of the Peace
in that part of Great Britain called England and Wales within their Several
Jurisdictions in their Quarter Session Assembled are Authorized and Required to
Appoint an Experienced Surgeon or Apothecary at a Stated Salary to Attend each
Gaol or Prison respectively And Whereas at the General Quarter Session
of the Peace holden at the Guildhall 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
Majesty William Frederick Glover< no role > of Clements Inn Surgeon was by this Court
duly Appointed Surgeon to Tothill Fields Bridewell within this Liberty at a Salary
of Twenty Pounds a Year and to be paid for his Medicines And the said William
Frederick Glover
< no role > having Petitioned this Court at the present General Quarter
Session for the Sum of Thirty Five Pounds for One Year and Three Quarters Salary
for his Attendance on the Prisoners in the said P [..] ue on the Thirdday of
this Instant October And the said William Frederick Glover< no role > having Presented
Two Bills of Eight Pounds four Shillings and Ten Pence and Seven Pounds and Nine
Pence half penny for Medicines Administered to the Prisoners in Tothil Fields Bridewell
and it Appearing by Writing under the Hands of Sir John Fielding< no role > Knight and
William Addington< no role > Esquire Two of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said
City and Liberty that the Charges therein are just and reasonable It is Ordered
and Directed that Mr. John Benson< no role > Treasurer of the County of Middlesex
do pay to the said William Frederick Glover< no role > the said Sum of Thirty Five




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