SHORPSHIRE ,
(to wit)

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sove-
reign Lord the King, held at the Guildhall in Shrewsbury ,
in and for the County of Salop , on Tuedsay in the Week next
after the Close of Easter,(to wit)the twenty fourth Day of April
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
eighty one Before Richard Hill< no role > Esquire Sir Charlton
Levignton< no role > Baronet Thomas Deponent< no role > Edward
Cludde< no role > Edward Pemberton< no role > Robert Corbett< no role > Thomas
Harris< no role > Charles Bales< no role > Willam Smith< no role > Walter
Woodcooper< no role > Adam Ottley< no role > Esquires Cheney Hart< no role >
Doctor of Physic Thomas Edwardest< no role > Joh Hawkins< no role > Clerks
his Majesty,s Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the said
County and also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Tres-
passes, and Other Misdemeanors in the same County 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 112lb from
the first day of May next to the first Day of
November following}
0.8.0

And from the said first Day of November
to the Easter Session 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 shillings each)and no more. And it is
ordered by this Court, that these Rates be certifies immediatly after this Sessions,
by the clerk of the Peace for this County, to the Lord Mayor of the City of
London ; and also to the respective Clerks of the Peace for the Counties, of Mid-
ddlesex 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
Jurisidiction, and be affixed up in some Public Places in every such Market Town,
to which all Persons may resort for their Information.

By the Court
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