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May 1784

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MIDDLESEX .


To all Constables, Headboroughs, and other Officers and Minis-
ters of the Peace of our Lord the King, within the County of
Middlesex , and to every of them whom it may concern.

THESE are to will and require, and in His Majesty's Name
strictly to charge and command, that you, or some or one of
you, upon Sight hereof, take and bring Dodding Jonathan
Bruce
< no role > late of the parish of Saint Mary Matfellon otherwise Whitechapel
in the County of Middlesex Gentleman and James Robinson< no role >
late of the same Esquire
before us and others
His Majesty's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County
aforesaid, and also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Tres-
passes and other Misdemeanours committed in the same County,
at this present Session of the Peace, holden at the SESSION-HOUSE
in and for the said County, (if the Court shall be here sitting)
to answer to an Indictment found against them in October Session last
for Assaulting Beating and Wounding one Thomas Pentlow< no role > then been [..]
the Watchman of the [..]
Imprisoning him against his are and consent and without any legal Warrant
Authority or Justifiable cause for the space of Twelve hours
And if the Court shall not be fitting at the Time of
such Taking, then that you, or some or one of you, forthwith af-
terward bring the said Party before us, or some other of His Ma-
jesty's Justices of the Peace for the same County, to find sufficient
Sureties personally to appear at this present Session, to answer the
same Indictment, and all such other Matters as on His Majesty's
Behalf shall be here objected. And if t he y cannot be taken during
this present Session, then that you bring t h em before us, or some
other of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County as
speedily after as may be, to find such Sureties personally to appear
at the next Session of the Peace to be holden for the said County,
to answer as aforesaid, and further to be dealt with according to
Law. HEREOF you are not to fail at your Peril. Given under
our Hands in open Session aforesaid this Twenty Eighth Day of
May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Eighty four

It is Ordered that each of the abovenamed Defendants
do give Twenty four hours notice of Bail to Mr Skutt Solicitor for the
prosecution before the same be taken and it is referred to same of his
Majesty's Justices of the peace sitting at the public Office in Shadwell
to take the same}

By the Court
Selby

D Walker
John Brettell< no role >




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