Middlesex Sessions:
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September 1777

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Specially appoints, Thomas Abbott< no role > (who is likewise a
Whitechapple Court Officer ) and James Thurgar< no role > (who
is the Menial Servant of the said Justice in the Capacity of
looking after his Horse, Cleaning his Knives, and Shoes, and
such like employment) to execute his Warrant, which they
accordingly do

That Your Memoralists are greatly Aggrieved,
by these Sort of People being employed in manner above Set
forth, inasmuch as they, under the Idea of being Peace Officers,
frequently obstruct Your Memoralists, in the Execution of their
Duty, and have taken some of the Peace Officers duly Sworn
in at the Court Leet, and carried them before the said Justice
Penleaze , under various idle pretences, And when Persons taken
up by the Peace Officers, on a General Privy Search, have been
discharged by the Magistrates, the said Justices pretended Officers
have caused some of the Persons so discharged, to apply to the
said Justice, for his Warrant against the Peace Officers duly
appointed, for having so taken them up, which his Worship
has accordingly granted;

That Your Memoralists humbly conceive that the
Swearing in by the said Justice of the said Jonathan Waters< no role >
(who was then and Still is a Victualler) is directly contrary to
a Standing Order of Sessions contained in folio 15, of Your
Worships Orders, And that not only the Swearing in of the
said Jonathan Waters< no role > (who lives in another Parish) but
also the Swearing in of the said Henry Britt< no role > by a Justice
out of Sessions, is repugrant to Law, And the directing of
Warrants Specially, to a White Chaple Court Officer , & likewise
to a Menial Servant of the said Justice, affords great




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