Middlesex

1 June 1779 A [..]

At the General Quarter Sessionsof the peace of our Lord the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex at the Sessions
Houseon Clerkenwell Green for the said County (by adjt)of Middlesex on Thursday the Fourteenth day of April in the
31st. Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Geo: the 3d King of Great Britain Etc. Before William Mainwaring< no role > , John Pownall< no role >
Charles Sheppard< no role > , Thomas Collins< no role > Esqrs . and others their Fellony Sessions of Etc

Upon the Appeal of JacobWoodward < no role > John Moline< no role > and others against a Rate or
Assessment made for the Relief of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields in the
County of Middlesex bearing date the 30thday ofJanuaryJune in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and ninety in the words following viz.
Bedfordbury Ward

Occupiers of House & Etc.
Peters Court

Rents

Lady day
Quarter's
rate
1790

Midsummers
Quarter's
rate
1790

Michaelmas
Quarter's
rate
1790

Christmas
Quarter's
rate

The Meeting House

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This Court having
fully heard as well the said Appellants as the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor
of the said Parish touching the said Appeal It is Ordered by this Court that the said Rate or
Assessment be and the sameherebyis hereby confirmed subject Nevertheless to the Opinion of his
Majesty's Court of Kings Bench upon the following Case that is to say Upon the hearing of the said
Appeal it appeared and was given in evidence to this Court that part of a certain Society
of Friends commonly called Quakers constitute Six Meetings in London Westminster and
Southwark and by Subscriptions and Donations have raised a fund which is applicable for
payment of the Rent Buildings and repairing of Meeting Houses belonging to their
Society that by Articles of Agreement dated the first day of June in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and SeventyNineseven made between the late Earl of
Salisbury of the one part and one David Barclay< no role > and others of the other part the said David
Barclay< no role > and the several other persons therein mentioned agreed that they would at their Costs
and Charges build one New Erection or Building in manner therein mentioned for the purpose
of being used as a Meeting house or place of Worship by the Society of People called Quakers in
consideration of a Lease being made to them of two Messages or Tenements with their
Appurtenances thereunto belonging then in the Occupation of Thomas Northaw< no role > and Danl.
Magrath< no role > situate in Peters Court near Saint Martins Lane in the Parish of Saint Martin
in the Fields to hold the said Premises from the twenty fifth day of March in the year
of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty for the Term of One hundred and
two years and One Quarter and the said late Earl did on his part covenant that he or his
hairs or assigns should and would as soon as the said Building should be covered in grant a
Lease of the said Premises to take place from the said Twenty fifth day of March in the year of