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P Adjorn Jovis
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25o. die February 1730
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the Court for his great
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for the County of Middlx
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now assembled at this present General Sessions of the peace
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holden for the said County Doe hereby Order that the thanks
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of this Court be and they are hereby given to William
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Cowper Esqr. the present
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the said County in the prudent Administracon of Justice.
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P Adjorn Jovis 25o. die February 1730
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and General
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Sessions of the peace to be holden for the said County
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between Easter one thousand Seven hundred & thirty one
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and Michaelmas then next following in the room of
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. the present Chairman,
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P Adjorn Jovis 25o. die February 1730
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high Constable
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in this County in February Sessions one
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thousand seven hundred and twenty seven And it being
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contrary to the tenor of an Order made in January Sessions
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one thousand seven hundred & eighteen that any high
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in this County should continue in his Office
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above the Space of three years, It is therefore Ordered
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by this Court that it be And It is hereby recomended
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unto his Maties
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for this County
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inhabiting within the said Division to assemble and
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meet together at the
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at such time as they shall in this
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behalf appoint to consider of a fit person to be returned
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for high Constable of the said Division in the room
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& place of the said
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James Sharpless
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to the Court of the
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next General Quarter Sessions of the peace for this
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on Thursday the twenty ninth
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