Town and Liberties
of SHREWSBURY ,
in the County of
SALOP ,
(to Wit.)

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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Sove-
reign Lord the King; held at the Guildhall in and for the
Town and Liberties of Shrewsbury , in the County of Salop , on
Friday in the Week next after the Close of Easter, (to wit) the
27th Day of April, in the twenty first Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the Year of our
Lord one thousand, seven hundred, and eight one Before
Joshua Blake way< no role > Esquire Mayor
William Elarris< no role > Esquire Deputy Recorder .
Edward Cludde< no role > and Baldwin Leighton< no role > Esquires
his Majesty's Justices assigned to Keep the Peace in the said
Town and Liberties, and also to hear and determine divers
Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misdemeanors in the same
Town and Liberties done and committed:

THE Justices assembled at this General Quarter Sessions of the Peace have,
(pursuant to the Statutes made in the third and fourth Years of the Reign of their
late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, and the twenty-first Year of the
Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second) assessed and rated the Price of
all Land-Carriage of Goods whatsoever, (except Money, Plate or Jewels) that shall
be brought from London to any Place or Places within this Jurisdiction, by any
common Waggoner or Carrier, at the Rates and Prices following, viz.

£.s.d

For the Carriage of every Hundred Weight, containing 112/b. from £. s. d.
this Sessions to the first day of November next}
0.8.0

And from the said first Day of November
next to the Easter Sessions following}
0.9.0

And so in Proportion for a greater or less Quantity, (except small Parcels under
twelve Pounds Weight, and for those one Shilling each) and no more. And it is
ordered by this Court, that these Rates be certified immediately after this Sessions,
by the Clerk of the Peace for this Town and Liberties, to the Lord Mayor of the City of
London ; and also to the respective Clerks of the Peace for the Counties of Mid-
dlesex and Surry , and City and Liberty of Westminster ; and likewise be certified to
the several Mayors and other Chief Officers of each respective Market Town in this
Jurisdiction, and be affixed up in some Public Places in every such Market Town,
to which all Persons may resort for Information.

By the Court,
Lopdale
Townclark