Sessions House for Middlesex
27th April 1785

Minutes of the Committee appointed to Settle the
Dispute relative to the Ground before the Session House and also to
Consider of a proper method of inclosing the Ground belonging to
this County round the Session House and paving the same and
also to consider whether a Way cannot be made for the Grand Jury
to come into Court without coming in under the Stairs as they now
to and whether better accommodation cannot be provided for the
witness attending this Court and the Grand Jury and also whether
a ventilate can be convenintly fixed in over the Court for the
purpose of rendering the same more Airy and wholesome and
such other matters as they may think necessary to be done in
me about the said Session House

Present

The Recd Sir George Booth< no role > Bart
Sir Robert Taylor< no role > knight
Thomas Garden< no role > Esq
Jacob Leroux< no role > Esq
Nathaniel Conant< no role > Esqr.
Joseph Hackney< no role > Esqr.
Joseph Girdler< no role > Esqr.

Sir George Booth< no role > Informed the Committee

That Messrs. Snell & Short Claimed the Ground
in the Front of the Sessn House as port of their
Menor of Clerkenwell And required a Consideration
for permitting the Justices to pace it in £50 way
offered to each of them but on inquiry finding it