Middlesex
This Order was renewed
at the Michas Session
1783}

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of
our Lord the King holden in and for the County of
Middlesex at the Session House for the said County
by Adjournment on Thursday the Seventeenth day
of October in the twenty second year of the Reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of
Great Britain Etc. Before William Mainwaring< no role >
Esquire The Reverend Sir George Booth< no role > Baronet
George Allcock< no role > David Walker< no role > Esquires and others
their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King
assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid
and also to hear and determine divers Felonies
Trespasses and other Misdemeanours committee
in the said County

Whereas by Virtue of a late Act of Parliament made in the fourth
year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth intitled an Act made for
"Pewterers and true Weights and Beams" Power is given to his Majestys
Justices of the Peace within every Shire at the General Quarter
Session holden at Michaelmas to assign and appoint two certain
Persons having experience therein to make Search after base or unlawful Pewter
or Brass deceivable or false Beams and Weights of the Wares in the said Act in
that respect specified by the persons in the aforesaid act in that behalf mentioned
and other offences against the said Act of Parliament in every part of the Shire
as well within Franchise as without saving in Citys or Boroughs where
Searchers be appointed by the Heads and Governors of the same And Whereas
of all such unlawful Pewter or Brass as the Searchers shall find the one half is
to be to the Use of our Sovereign Lord the King and the other Half to the said
Searchers by Virtue of the said Statute And Whereas in default of the
Master & Wardens in the said Occupations not searching inform as is
aforesaid and whereby that any su [..] unlawful Metal is cast or made or
unlawful Weights used It is by the said Act enacted that it shall and
may be lawful for any person having sufficient Cunning and Knowledge-
in the said Occupations by Oversight of the Mayors Bailiffs and Head
Officers of the said Citys and Boroughs to search all the said Places and to
put the said Authority and Act in Execution inform aforesaid And
Whereas is appeareth unto this Court that no person on persons is or are at
present appointed for the ensuing Year for the purposes aforesaid in the
County aforesaid And that by the reasons of the Defect thereof several Offences against
the above in part recited Act may be undiscovered and unpunished It is therefore
Ordered by this Court here that John Townsend< no role > of Goodmans Fields in the
said County of Middlesex Pewterer and William Fasson< no role > of High Holborn in
the same County Pewterer (they having good experience therein), be and
they are hereby nominated and appointed Searchers of base or-unlawful
Pewter and Brass and of deceivable of false Beams and Weights of the