MIDDLESEX .

AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the King, holden for the County of
Middlesex , at the Guildhall in King Street , Westminster , in the said County on Monday in
[..] week next after the Close of Easter to wit the sixteenth Day of April in the Thirty eighth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc. Before William
Mainwaring< no role > , William Bleamire< no role > , Hammond Crosse< no role > , John Hole< 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. That Session of the Peace is adjourned, by the aforesaid Justices of
our said Lord the King abovenamed and others their Fellows aforesaid, here until Tuesday
the Seventeenth day of the same Month of April at the hour of Ten in the Forenoon
of the same Day, to be holden at the Session House upon Clerkenwell Green , in and for the said County,
and that at the same Session of the Peace being holden by Adjournment aforesaid, at the Session House
aforesaid, in and for the said County, on the said Tuesday the Seventeenth Day of
April in the Year aforesaid, before the said Justices of our said Lord the King
abovenamed, and others their Fellows aforesaid. That Session of the Peace is adjourned by the afore-
said Justices of our said Lord the king above named, and others their Fellows aforesaid, here until
Wednesday the Eighteenth Day of the same Month of April at the Hour and
Place last abovesaid, and that at the same Session of the Peace, being holden by Adjournment afore-
said, at the Session House aforesaid, in and for the said County, on the said Wednesday the
Eighteenth Day of April in the Year aforesaid, before the said Justices of our
said Lord the King abovenamed, and others their Fellows aforesaid. That Session of the Peace
is adjourned by the aforesaid Justices of our said Lord the King abovenamed, and others
their Fellows aforesaid here until Thursday the Nineteenth Day of the same Month
of April at the Hour and Place last abovesaid. And that at the same Session of the Peace
being holden by Adjournment aforesaid, at the Session House aforesaid, in and for the said County, on
the said Thursday the Nineteenth Day of April in the Year aforesaid, before
the said Justices of our Lord the King abovenamed, and others their Fellows aforesaid.

Whereas Joseph Bird< no role > of the Hamlet of Ratcliff in the County of Middlesex Esquire
Did at the last General Quarter Session of the peace held in and for this County Exhibit
his petition and appeal setting forth That He was on the 23d. day of June 1797 not only
Rated or assessed for his Dwelling House situate at Cock Hill in the said Hamlet of
Ratcliff but also for his Sail Loss Warehouse and Wharf situate and lying behind his
said dwelling House by the Commissioners acting in and under a certain Act of Parliament
passed in the 11th. year of his present Majesty intituled "An Act for paving and
"Regulating Rosemary Lane from the parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate to Cable Street
"also the said Cable Street , the Foot Path in Back Lane , part of the Precinct of well
"Close, the Street leading from Nightingale Lane to Ratcliff Cross : Butcher Row and
"Brook Street and the several Streets Lanes and Passages opening into the same
"and for removing all obstructions and annoyances therefrom and preventing the like
"for the future." That he humbly conceived that he was not liable to be rated or
assessed for the said Sail Loft Warehouse and Wharf situate within any of the
places particularly specified in the said Act and which had been paved by virtue
of or in pursuance thereof which exempted him from any Rate or Assessment