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June 1799

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LINCOLNSHIRE,
LIND [..]
To Wit.}


AT the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord< no role > the
King, holden at Louth, in and for the Parts of Lindsey, in the County of
Lincoln, on Friday in the first whole Week after Easter, (viz.) the fifth Day of
April, in the thirty-ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the
Third, King of Great-Britain, Etc. and in the Year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-nine, before Thomas Coltman< no role > , Esquire , Chairman,
and Edward Walls< no role > , Clerk, Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep
the Peace of our said Lord the King, in the said Parts of Lindsey, in the said
County, and also to hear and determine diverse Felonies, Trespasses, and other
Misdemeanors , committed within the Parts aforesaid. AND continued and
holden by Adjournment at Kirton , in and for the said Parts, on Tuesday the
ninth Day of the same April. Before Richard Ellison< no role > , Esquire , Chairman,
Thomas Goulton< no role > , William Richard< no role > Wilson, Cornelius Stovin< no role > , George Uppleby< no role > ,
and William Marshall< no role > , Esquires , Robert Wells< no role > , Doctor in Divinity , and
Cayley Illingworth< no role > , Clerk; Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep
the Peace of our said Lord the King, in the said Parts of Lindsey in the said
County, and also to hear and determine diverse Felonies, Trespasses, and other
Misdemeanors , committed within the Parts aforesaid.

IT IS ORDERED AS FOLLOWS, VIZ.

BY VIRTUE of the several Acts of Parliament relating to the Settling the RATES for Carriage of Goods, his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace , at the said Quarter Sessions assembled, do assess and rate the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods
whatsoever, to be brought into, or carried from any Place or Places herein after-mentioned, within the said Parts of Lindsey ,
by any Common Waggoner or Carrier, at the respective Rates and Prices following, viz.

From London to Gainsborough or Louth, for every Hundred Weight, nine Shillings, and for every Stone of fourteen Pounds
Weight, one Shilling and Two-pence, and for every Parcel under the Weight of a Stone, one Shilling.

From London to the Bail or Close of Lincoln, or from London to Horncastle, for every Hundred Weight, eight Shillings,
for every such Stone, one Shilling, and for every Parcel under the Weight of a Stone, one Shilling.

From Lincoln to Barton, from Hull to Horncastle, or from Gainsborough or Barton to Louth, for every such Stone, Four-
pence, and for every Parcel under six Pounds Weight, Two-pence.

From Lincoln to Market Raisin or Brigg, from Hull to Lincoln, or from Boston to Louth, for every such Stone, Three-
Pence, and for every Parcel under six Pounds Weight, Two-pence.

From Gainsborough to Market Raisin, for every such Stone, Two-Pence half-penny, and for every Parcel under six Pounds
Weight, Two-pence.

From Gainsborough to Kirton, from Barton to Caistor, from Caistor to Louth, or from Boston to Horncastle or Alford, for
every such Stone, Two-Pence, and for every Parcel under six Pounds Weight, one Penny,

From Caistor to Grimsby, or from Boston to Spilsby, for every such Stone, three-half pence, and for every Parcel under
the Weight of a Stone Two-pence. AND from Brigg to Caistor, for every such Stone, one Penny, and for every Parcel under
the Weight of a Stone, one Penny.

From Lincoln to Horncastle, for every Hundred Weight, one Shilling and Six-pence, for every such Stone, Two-pence
half-penny, and for every Parcel under the Weight of a Stone, Two-pence.

From Horncastle to Spilsby, for every Hundred Weight, one Shilling, for every such Stone, Two-pence, and for every
Parcel under the Weight of a Stone, Two-Pence.

From Horncastle to Alford, for every Hundred Weight, one Shilling and Six-pence, for every such Stone, Two-pence
half-penny, and for every Parcel under the Weight of a Stone, Two-pence half-penny.

From Horncastle to Burgh in the Marsh, for every Hundred Weight, one Shilling and Six-pence, for every such Stone
Three-pence and for every Parcel under the Weight of a Stone, Three-pence.

From Spilsby to Alford, for every Hundred Weight, Eight-pence, for every such Stone, one Penny, and for every Parcel
under the Weight of a Stone, one Penny.

AND IT IS ORDERED by this Court that these Rates be printed, and certified by the Clerk of the Peace for
these Parts, to the Lord Mayor of the City of London , and to the respective Clerks of the Peace for the Counties of
Middlesex and Surry, and the City and Liberty of Westminster , and also to the Mayor of the City of Lincoln, and to the
several Mayors and other Chief Officers of each respective Market Town within these Parts, to be hung up in some public
Place in every such Market Town, to which all Persons may resort for their Information; AND that no common Waggoner
or Carrier, do take for Carriage of such Goods and Merchandizes, above the Rates and Prices hereby set, upon pain to forfeit
for every such offence the Sum of FIVE POUNDS, to be levied in such Manner as by the Statutes in those Cases are
directed to the use of the Party grieved.

BY THE COURT

Brackenbury
Clerk of the Peace .




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