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
(by adjournment) on Thursday the Twenty SeventhEighthDay
of October in the Thirty secondfirstYear of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great
Britain Etc Before William Mainwaring< no role > WilliamNathaniel
[..] Bleamore< no role > Hucharp Tayler< no role > Charles Sheppard< no role > Esquires
and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the
King assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid
and laos to hear and determine divers Felonies
Trespasses and other Misdemeanour's committed in
the same County.

Whereas by Virtue of an 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 Beam's Power is given to His
Majesty's 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 Case 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 Cities 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 said 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
and Wardens in the said Occupations not searching in form as is
aforesaid and whereby that any such 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
coming and Knowledge in the said Occupations by oversight of the
Mayors Bailiffs or Head Officers of the said Cities and Boroughs
to search all the said Places and to put the said Authority and