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Warwickshire ,
(TO WIT)}


AT the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King, holden at Warwick, in and for the said County, on
Tuesday, in the first Week next after the Clause of Easter, that is to say, the Seventeenth Day of April
in the Thirty Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, King over Great-Britain, and so forth,
and in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Eight Before The Earl of Aylesford
Walker London< no role > , Bernard Dewes< no role > , Charles Gregory< no role > Wade Esqrs.
and others, Keepers of the Peace of our said Lord the King, and also Justices of the said King, appointed to hear and
determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misdemeanors, done and committed in the said County, and of the Quorum,
and so forth.

A PARTICULAR of the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever, to be brought into the County of Warwick, by any Common
Waggoner or Carrier assessed and rated by the said Justices, at the said General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, in pursuance of and ac-
cording to an Act of Parliament made in the Third Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled, An Act for the
better repairing and amending the Highways, and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods, (to wit)

£. S. D.

112lb. to the
Hundred.}


For every Hundred weight of Goods, and so proportionably for a greater or less weight (except small
Parcels not exceeding Ten Pounds weight) that shall be carried Sixty Miles, the said Miles to be
taken according to the ordinary and usual Computation of Miles used in the several and respective
Places to which such Goods shall be carried.}
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112lb. to the
Hundred.}


For every Hundred weight of Goods, and so proportionably for a greater or less weight (except small
Parcels not exceeding Ten Pounds weight) that shall be carried further than Sixty Miles, to pay for
every Ten Miles more than Sixty Miles, and so proportionably for every greater or lesser Number of
Miles more than Sixty Miles, the said Miles to be taken and computed as above.}
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Which Rates and Assessments are to be certified to the several Mayors and other Chief Officers of every Market Town within this
County, to be hung up in some public Place, and also in every Excise Office within this County, to which all Persons may resort for their
Information. And to the End that none may ignorantly Offend herein, this Court thinks it proper hereby to give Notice, that by the
aforesaid Act of Parliament no Common Waggoner or Carrier is to take for Carriage of such Goods above the Rates and Prices so set,
upon Pain of Five Pounds for every Offence, to be levied by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods, by Warrant of any two Justices
of the Peace where such Waggoner or Carrier shall reside, to the Use of the Party grieved.

By the Court,
Saml Oliver< no role > Hant Deputy Clerk of the Peace

I Samuel Oliver< no role > Hunt Deputy Clerk of the Peace for the County of WARWICK, do certify To the Clerk of the
Peace for the City of Westminster
that the above is a true Copy and Particular of the Rate and Assessment for the Carriage of Goods, by any Common
Waggoner or Carrier, into the County of WARWICK, as made by the Justices above-named, at the General Quar-
ter Sessions of the Peace above-mentioned, in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament made in the Third Year of the Reign
of King WILLIAM and Queen MARY, for the better repairing and amending the Highways, and for settling the Rates
of Carriage of Goods: IN TESTIMONY whereof, I the said Samuel Oliver< no role > Hunt Deputy Clerk of the Peace aforesaid,
have hereunto set my Hand, this Seventeenth Day of April 17 98

Saml Oliver Hunt< no role >




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