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<p n="240">P Adjorn Martis Septinio die Decembris 1725.</p>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ335">Esqr</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-2">Isaac Tillard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-3">D: Dolins</rs>
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} Lnts.</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-4">John Milner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-5">Nicholas Jeffreys</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-6">Tho: Thayer</rs>
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-} <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ336">Esqrs</rs>
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.</note>
Whereas the Trust reposed by the Laws of this Realm in <lb></lb>
Grand Juries, is, and ought, in Reason and Justice, to be<lb></lb>
reputed and deem'd a high Trust, and of great Moment and<lb></lb>
Important to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-7">his Majesty</rs>
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and his Government, as well ask<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-8">his Majesty</rs>
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's Subjects and Suitors attending the Courts of<lb></lb>
General quarter and General Sessions of the peace: And<lb></lb>
whereas strict Charge hath been frequently from time to<lb></lb>
time given to the summoning Bailiffs of the Sheriff of this<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo191">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, to summon able, sufficient, and<lb></lb>
substantial persons fit to perform <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-9">his Majesty</rs>
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's Service, and<lb></lb>
discharge the duty incumbent on them as grand Jurymen,<lb></lb>
to be upon the Grand Jury at the Sessions of peace for<lb></lb>
the said County: Yet not withstanding the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ337">Bailiffs</rs>
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<lb></lb>
have contemptuously, and for the sale of corrupt Lucre,<lb></lb>
wilfully neglected to summon a great many able, <lb></lb>
sufficient, and substantial men, and in their Room and<lb></lb>
place, have frequently summon'd persons of mean<lb></lb>
Capacities and in low Circumstances, to be upon the Grand<lb></lb>
Jury at the Sessions of peace holden for the said County:<lb></lb>
And whereas for the more effectual remedying and<lb></lb>
redressing of this growing Evil and corrupt practise, and<lb></lb>
preventing the Mischiess and Dangerous Consequences<lb></lb>
which, if continu'd, might happen thereby; It was by<lb></lb>
an Order made at the General Sessions of the peace holden<lb></lb>
for this County by Adjournment, on Saturday the<lb></lb>
Fifteenth day of May, in the Eleventh Year of the Reign<lb></lb>
of his present Majesty King George, Order'd, That the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ338">Sheriff of the County</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo192">Middlesex</rs>
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for the time being,<lb></lb>
should for the future, return to the Court of every General<lb></lb>
Quarter and General Sessions of the peace to be thereafter<lb></lb>
holden for the said County at the beginning of each<lb></lb>
Sessions, upon the pannel of the Grand Jury, the true<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-10">Christian Names</rs>
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, Surnames and Additions of able, honest,<lb></lb>
skilful ad substantial men, fit to be Grand Furymen, to<lb></lb>
enquire for our <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-11">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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the King for the Body of<lb></lb>
the said County, to the Intent that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n241-12">his Majesty</rs>
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's Service<lb></lb>
might be the better done and performed; And in case any<lb></lb>
person should thereafter be return'd upon the pannel of the</p>
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