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Leicestershire ,
To Wit.}
At the General Quarter Sessions of
the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the
King, holden at the Castle of Leicester , on Tuesday in
the week, next after the close of Easter: To Wit, the
24th of April, in the twenty first year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, now KING
of Great-Britain and so forth, and in the year of our
Lord, 1781: Before William Burleton< no role > , Esq ; L.L.D.
The Right Honourable Thomas Lord Viscount Went-
worth
< no role > , Sir Thomas Fowke< no role > , Knight , Arthur,
Hesilrige
< no role > , Samuel Steele Perkins< no role > , Esquires ; The
Reverend Henry Hough< no role > , Henry Baseley< no role > , William
Brown
< no role > , and William Clayton< no role > , Clerks Justices , of
our said Lord the KING, assigned to keep the Peace of
our said Lord the KING in the county aforesaid.
And also to bear and determine divers felonies, tres-
passes, and other misdemeanors, committed in the said
county.

It is ordered by the COURT here as followeth:

WHEREAS divers Waggoners and other Carriers,
by combination among themselves, have raised
the price of the carriage of goods from the city of Lon-
don into this county, to excessive rates, to the great
prejudice and obstruction of trade, for [..] edy whereof,
this court, in virtue of the statutes in that case made
and provided, doth assess, rate and six, the prices of all
land carriages of goods and merchandize whatsoever to
he brought from the city of London into the several
places within this county hereafter mentioned, at the
several times and seasons of the year hereafter expressed,
by any common waggoner or carrier, as followeth, (That
is to say)
Nor every hundred weight to be brough at any time
from the 25th of March to the 29th of September, to the
Borough of Leicester , 5s and no more.
To Market Harborough 4s. and no more.
To Lutterworth 4s. and no more.
To Mountsorrel 5s. and no more.
To Loughborough 5s. and no more.
To Hinckley 4s. 6d. and no more.
To Ashby -de la-zouch 5s. 6d. and no more.
To Market Bosworth 5s. and no more.
And to Melton Mowbray 5s. and no more.
And so after the same rates respectively for every
greater or lesser quantity to be brough during the time
aforesaid, to the several places above-mentioned, (parcels
under the weight of 14th. only excepted.)

And for every hundred weight to be brought any time
between the 29th day of September and the 25th day of
March.

To the Borough of Leicester aforesaid, 5s. 6d. and
no more.

To Market-Harbro 4s. 6d. and no more.
To Lutterworth 4s. 6d. and no more.
To Mountsorrel 5s. 6d. and no more.
To Loughb [..] 5s. 6d. and no more.
To Hinckley 5s. and no more.
To Ashey-de la-zouch 5s. 6d. and no more.
To Market-Bosworth 5s. 6d. and no more.
And to Melton-Mowbray 5s. 6d. and no more.

And so after the same respective rates, above ascertained,
for every greater or lesser quantity to be brought to the
several places above-mentioned, during the time last
specified. (Parcels under the weight of 14th. only ex-
cepted.)

And it is further ordered, that 1s. and no more, shall
or may be taken and received by any common waggoner
or carrier for the carriage of any parcel or quantity of
goods and merchandizes under 14lb. weight. from the
city of London to any of the several places in this county
above-mentioned, at any time or season of the year what
soever.

By the Court
Parke
Clerk of the Peace

Leicestershire
to wit}


To The Clerk of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
In obedience to an Act of Parliament made in the twenty first year of the
reign of his late Majesty King George the Second I do hereby Certify that the rates
and Assessments above set down and expressed were agreed upon and settled by
his Majestys Justices of the peace for the said County of Leicester in the Title of
the said Rates named as their general quarter Session of the Peace holden for the
said County of Leicester at the Time and place in the same Title mentioned
Dated at Leicester The 1st. day of May 1781

Reuben Parke< no role >
Clerk of the peace of the said County of Leicester




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