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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the<lb></lb>
King holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50684_geo610">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50684_geo611">Guildhall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50684_geo612">King<lb></lb>
Street Westminster</rs>
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by adjournment on Thursday the sixteenth Day of October<lb></lb>
in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third<lb></lb>
King of Great Britain Etc Before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50684_n781-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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Knight the<lb></lb>
Reverend Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50684_n781-2">George Booth</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50684_occ82">Baronet</rs>
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Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50684_n781-3">John Fielding</rs>
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Parker</rs>
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Esquire and others their Fellow Justices of our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King assigned to keep the peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and<lb></lb>
determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanours committed in<lb></lb>
the said County.</p>
<p n="782">Whereas by Virtue of a late Act of Parliament made in the fourth Year of the Reign<lb></lb>
of King Henry the Eighth untitled an Act made for Pewterers and true Weight and Beams<lb></lb>
Power is given to his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50684_occ84">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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within every Shire at the General<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions holden at Michaelmas to assign and appoint two certain Persons having<lb></lb>
experience therein to make search after Base or unlawful Pewter or Brass deawable or<lb></lb>
false Beams and Weights of the Wares in the said Act in that respect specified occupied<lb></lb>
by the Persons in the aforesaid Act in that Behalf mentioned and other Offences against the<lb></lb>
said Act of Parliament in every Part of the Shire as well within Franchise as without saving<lb></lb>
in Cities or Boroughs where Searchers be appointed by the Heads and Governours of the<lb></lb>
same And Whereas of all such unlawfull Parker or Brass as the said Searcher shall find<lb></lb>
the one half is to be to the Use of our Sovereign Lord the King and the other half to the said<lb></lb>
Searchers by Virtue of the said Statute and whereas in Default of the Masters and Wardens<lb></lb>
in the said Occupations notsearching in form as is aforesaid and whereby that any<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
unlawfull Metal is cast or made or unlawful Weights used It is by the said Act enacted<lb></lb>
that it shall be lawful for any Person or Persons having sufficient cunning and knowledge<lb></lb>
in the said Occupations by overeight of the Mayors Bailiffs and Head Officers of the said<lb></lb>
Cities and Boroughs to search all the said Places and to put the said Authority and<lb></lb>
Act in Execution in form aforesaid And Whereas it appeareth unto this Court that<lb></lb>
no Persons or Persons is or are at present appointed for the ensuing A fear for the<lb></lb>
Purposes aforesaid in the County aforesaid and that by reasons of the Defect thereof<lb></lb>
several Offences against the above in part recited Act may be undiscovered and unpunished<lb></lb>
It is therefore ordered by this Court here that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50684_n782-1">John Jones</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50684_geo613">Saint Catherines</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50684_geo614">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50684_occ85">Pewterer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50684_n782-2">John Townsend</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50684_geo615">Goodmans Fields</rs>
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in the same County Pewterer (they having good experience therein) be and they<lb></lb>
are hereby nominated and appointed Searchers of Base or unlawful Pewter and Brass<lb></lb>
and of deceivable or false Beams and Weights of the Wares in the said Act<obscured></obscured>
that respect specified occupied by the <obscured></obscured>
the aforesaid Act<lb></lb>
in that behalf mentioned in that this County by virtue and in pursuance of the said Act<lb></lb>
with full Power and Authority to Act and do all and every other Matters and<lb></lb>
things as such Searchers as by the said Act is directed authorized or required to be done<lb></lb>
according to the true Intent and Meaning thereof</p>
<p n="783">By the Court<lb></lb>
Selby</p>
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