Middlesex

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
on Monday the Tenth day of January in the Thirty
first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third King of Great Britain Etc Before William
Mainwaring< no role > , Nathaniel Conant< no role > , David Walker< no role >
William Gascoigne< 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 committed in the same County

Whereas Alice Blackburn< no role > of the City Road in the Parish of
Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex Hath at this present Session
Exhibited her Petition and Appeal setting forth That Sir James Esdaile< no role >
Knight and Thomas Cogan< no role > Esquire two of His Majestys Justices of the Peace
acting in and for the County of Middlesex by a Warrant under the Hands and
Seals respectively bearing date the twenty first day of April in the Year of our
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety directed to William Standen< no role >
and John Lucas< no role > two of the Collectors appointed to collect the Rate or Assessment
made by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Twenty
seventh Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second
intituled" An Act for the better enlightening and cleansing the Open places
Squares Streets Lanes Alleys Passages and Courts within the Parish of
Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex and regulating the Nightly Watch
and Bedels and for repairing the Highways within the said Parish" in that
part of the said Parish called Old Street Liberty Did thereby require the
said William Standen< no role > and John Lucas< no role > the Collectors aforesaid to distrain
the Goods and Chattels of the Petitioner which should be found in the said
Parish or elsewhere for the Sum of Two Pounds Three shillings and nine pence
for Three Quarters of a Years Rate or Assessment due from her at Christmas
day then last past on a certain Messuage or Tenement with the
Appurtenances situate standinglying and being in a certain place
called or known by the name of the City Road in the Parish and County
aforesaid for the purposes in the said Act abovementioned. That such
Distress was accordingly made in pursuance thereof by which the Petitioner
Apprehended and was advised that she was greatly aggrieved For that the