Middlesex

Rotation Office Litchfield Street Soho
22d. April 1782

Minutes of the Committee appointed to Examine into the Lanes
respecting Gaming and Garning Houses

Present

Thomas Bishop< no role > Esqr. in the Chair
William Addington< no role > Esqr.
John Lewis< no role > Esqr.
John Barnfather< no role > Esqr.
Jeremiah Bentham< no role > Esqr
James Croft< no role > Esqr.
Sampson Wright< no role > Esqr.

Mr. James Croft< no role > having informed this Committee that
Mr. Aldermen Crosly had in a Conversation on the Subject of the
business of this Committee said that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen
of the City of London were very willing and desirous to join the
Magistrates of this County in their intended application to
Parliament for an act more Effectually to check the Permisions
practice of Gaming Resolved that the offer be Cordially
accepted and that as soon as this Committee have come to any
Resolutions and Clauses proper to be offered to the House of
Commons that Copies of such Claluses be sent to Mr Alderman
Crosby with an Invitation for an Interview upon the Subject

Adjourned till tomorrow Evening at
Six o Clock same place