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May 1781

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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
Sovereign Lord the King holden at the Castle in Oakham
in and for the said County on Thursday in the Week
next after the Close of the Feast of Easter to wit the
Twenty sixth day 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 One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty one
Before George Bridges Brudenell< no role > Henry Boulton< no role > and
John Suffeild Brown< no role > Esquires and William Brereton< no role >
Clerk Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to
keep the Peace of our said Lord the King and also to
hear and determine diver Felonies Trespasses and
other Misdeeds committed in the said County%

The Rates and Prices of Land Carriage of all Goods
whatsoever to be brought into the respective Place and Places
within the limits and Jurisdictions of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace within the County a foresaid by any Common
waggoner or Carrier rated and assessed at the General Quarter
Session above mentioned pursuant to the Statutes in that
Case made and provided that is to Say From London or any part
part within the Bills of Mortality to Uppingham and oakham
the Sum of Five Shillings for the Hundred Weigh from
Michaelmas to Ladyday and the Sum of Four Shillings and
six pence for the like Carriage from Lady day to Michaelmas
and after that Rate for every greater or lesser Quantity parcels
of the Weight of Fourteen pounds or under Excepted For the
Carriage of all Goods and Merchandize Weighing Fourteen Pounds
or under from London or any part with in the Bills of mortality
to the said Towns of uppingham and oakham the Sum of One
Shilling and no more And it is hereby Ordered that no such
Common wagoner or Carrier shall take for Carriage of any
Goods and merchandizes more than the Rates and Prices
above mentioned upon Pain to forfeit for every such offence the
Sum of Five pounds to beleived as the said statules some or
one of them direct%

By the Court
Bayley
Clerk of the Peace




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