Middlesex

I do hereby Certify That at the General Quarter Session of
the Peace of our Lord the King holden in and for the County of
Middlesex at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street on Monday the
thirteenth day of July in the eighteenth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc Before
Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knight the Reverend Sir George Booth< no role > Baronet
Sir John Chetwode< no role > Baronet John Sherwood< no role > Esquire and others
their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the
Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers
felonies Trepasses and other misdemeanours committed in the same
County George Smith< no role > Mary Wood< no role > Mary Smith< no role > were severally
convicted of Petit Larceny and Sarah Smith< no role > of a certain fraud
for which they were liable by Law to a sentence of Transportation
to any of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America and
those are further to Certify That at the same Session the said
George Smith< no role > was then and there by the Court ordered and adjudged
to be kept to hard Labour for the term of three years in the raising
Sand Soil and gravel from and cleansing the river Thames or
any other Service for the benefit of the navigation of the said river
under the management and direction of the Overseers appointed
pursuant to the Statute in such case made and provided and the
said Mary Wood< no role > Mary Smith< no role > and Sarah Smith< no role > were by the said
Court ordered and adjudged to be sent to the House of Correction
being a proper place of confinement there to be kept to hard Lab [..]
for the term of three years pursuant to the Statute Etc and I do
further Certify that it appears to me that Henry Collingwood< no role > Selby
Esquire Clerk of the peace for the said County hath been usually paid
the Sum of six Shillings and two pence for the order of Transportation
of every Offender Convicted and ordered to be Transported for any of
the above Offences

John Hawkins< no role >