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May 1781

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Nottinghamshire


At the General Quarter Session of the peace of our Lord the King holden by
Adjournment at East Retford in and for the said County of Nottingham in the first
whole Week after the Close of Easter (to Wit) on Fridaythe Twenty Seventh day of
Aprilin the Twenty first Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King
George the Third and in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty
one Before William Mellish< no role > and Edmund Kirke< no role > Esquires
Justices of our said Lord the King Assigned to keep the Peace in the said County and
also to hear and Dertermine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanours
Committed in the said County (one of them being of the Quorum.)

Pursuant to an Act of Parliament made in the Third and Fourth Years of the
reign of the late King William and Queen Mary Intitled an Act for the better repairing and amending the
Highways and for Settling the rates of the Carriage of Goods" his Majesty's Justices of the Peace at this
General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled have Assessed and rated the prices of Land Carriage
of all sorts of Goods whatsoever to be brought to any of the places within this County herein after
mentioned by any Common Waggoner or Carrier from and after the FirstDay of
Maynext untill the Firstday of Maythen next ensuing
at the rates and Prices following (Vizt.)

From London to Worksop . Tuxford . Eastretford . Ollerton Blyth . Barmby Moor and Harworth
near Bawtry or any other adjacent place within this County of the like Distance from London at
Six shillings and eight penceby the Hundred and for every odd Parcel under a Stone
Tenpencethroughout the whole Year and no more.

And it is Ordered that these rates be Certified to the Lord Mayor of the
City of London and to the respective Clerks of the Peace of the County of Middlesex and Surry and the Liberty
of Westminster and to the several Mayors and other Chief Officers of each respective Markett Towns
within this County to be Hung up in some Public place to which all persons may resort for their
Information and that no Common Waggoner or Carrier do presume to lake above the rates and Prices
aforesaid upon pain to Forfeit, for every Offence the Sum of Five Pounds to be levied by distress
and Sale of his Goods to the use of the party Greived In such manner as the said Act, Directs.

By the Court.
Jno: Hurst< no role >
Clerk of the Peace .




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