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May 1781

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Derbyshire to wit


At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord [..] held at Derby in
and for the County of Derby on Tuesday in the first Week after [..] of Easter; to wit,
the Twenty Fourth Day ofApril in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain Etc. and in the Year of our LORD, One
Thousand Seven Hundred andEighty one before Francis ask [..] Richard Hayne< no role > Francis
Ballidon Wilmot
< no role > Robert Wright< no role > Tristram Durell< no role > Francis Noel< no role > Clark Stepney< no role > and Nigel Bowyer
Gresley
< no role > Esquires and William Bullock< no role > Doctor of Physic
Justices of our said Lord the KING, assigned to keep Peace in the said County; and also
to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misdemeaners in the said County
committed.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the Third Yea of the Reign of King WILLIAM and Queen Mary, entitled An Act for the bette Amend-
ing the HIGHWAYS, and for Settling the RATES OF CARRIAGE of GOODS. and by another Act of Parliament made in the Twenty first year of his
late MAJESTY king GEORGE the Second Reign, to explain and amend the said recited Act. The Justices of the Peace of every County and other
Places within the Realm of England, and Dominion of Wales , have Power and are required at their next, respective GENERAL or QUARTER SESSIONS
after Easter-Day yearly to assess the Rate and Price of all Land-Carriage of GOODS whatsoever to be brought into, or carried from their respective Jurisdictions,
by any common Waggoner, or Carrier; and the Rates so made to certify to the Several MAYORS, and Chief Offices of every Market Town the Limits of
such Justices of the Peace, and to others and it is by the said first Act enacted That no common Waggoner, or Carrier, shall take more for Carriage of GOODS,
than the RATES to set, upon Pain and Forfeiture of Five Pounds to the Use of the Party grieved.

This COURT, therefore in Obedience to the said recited Acts and pursuant to the Powers given by the same, doth Asses and set the Several RATES and
PRICES of Land Carriage of GOODS to and from the Places herein after mentioned and expressed, (to wit)

From LADY-DAY to MICHAELMAS

For every Hundred Weight of Goods, and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight that shall be carried from DERBY in the County to the City
of LONDON , or any Places within the Bills Mortality: and from those Places to Derby , or other Places like Distance within the County of Derby }
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For every Hundred Weight of Goods, (and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight) that shall be carried from Asborne in this County to the City
of London , or any Places within the Bills Mortality: and from those Places to Ashborne , or other Places like Distance within the County of Derby }
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For every Hundred Weight of Goods, (and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight) that shall be carried from Bakewell in this County to the City
of London , or any Places within the Bills Mortality: and from those Places to Bakewell , or other Places like Distance within the County of Derby }
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For every Hundred Weight of Goods, (and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight that shall be carried from Chesterfield in the County, to the City
of London , or any Places within the Bills Mortality: and from those Places to Chesterfield , or other Places like Distance within the County of Derby }
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For every Hundred Weight of Goods, (and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight) that shall be carried from Wirkworth in this County to the City
of London , or any Places within the Bills Mortality: and from those Places to Wirkworth , or other Places like Distance within the County of Derby }
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For every Hundred Weight of Goods, (and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight) that shall be carried from Tideswell in the County to this City
of London , or any Places within the Bills Mortality: and from those Places to Tideswell , or other Places like Distance within the County of Derby }
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For every Hundred Weight of Goods, (and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight) that shall be carried from Chapel-en-le frith in this County to the City
of LONDON , or any Places within the Bills Mortality: and from those Places to Chapel-en-le-frith , or other Places like Distance within the County of Derby }
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For every Hundred Weight of Goods, (and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight) that shall be carried from Buxton in this County to the City
of London , or any Places within the Bills Mortality: and from those Places to Buxton , or other Places like Distance in the County of Derby }
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For every Hundred Weight of Goods, (and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight that) shall be carried from Derby to Northampton or from Nor-
thampton to Derby , or other Places of like Distance within the County of Derby }
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For every Hundred Weight of Goods, (and so proportionably for a greater or less Weight) that shall be carried from Derby to Leicester , or from Leiceste
to Derby , or other Places like Distance within the County of Derby }
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