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<p n="1093">By adjornment on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55602_date140">25th. day of February 1747</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1094"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for allowing a<lb></lb>
Salary of £4. a year to<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1094-1">John Ditcher</rs>
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.}</note>
This Court having observed that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1094-2">John Ditcher</rs>
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hath for divers years last<lb></lb>
been attendant upon <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1094-3">his Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1251">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of this County<lb></lb>
assembled in Sessions and hath been very usefull to them upon divers<lb></lb>
Occasions, and hath been ready to observe and obey the Directions<lb></lb>
by them given in Matters and Messages relating to the Commission,<lb></lb>
and that his Attendance is Still necessary and may be usefull, And being<lb></lb>
informed that he is very desirous to continue his Attendance upon them<lb></lb>
as formerly having Some Small Allowance made him for Such Labour<lb></lb>
and Attendance, This Court, to the intent that the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1094-4">John Ditcher</rs>
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<lb></lb>
may have Some Recompense in relation to the Premisses, Doth Order<lb></lb>
that the Said John Ditcher be for the future allowed and paid the yearly<lb></lb>
Sum or Salary of four Pounds for his future Attendance upon <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1094-5">his Majesty</rs>
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's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1252">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of this County at their Sessions and Such like Service<lb></lb>
as aforesaid he duly performing the Same as formerly, And that Such<lb></lb>
yearly Sum be paid to him by the Treasurer of this County until further<lb></lb>
Order of the Court of Sessions of the Peace for this County to the contrary by<lb></lb>
quarterly Payments, to wit, at Lady day, Midsummer, Michaelmas,<lb></lb>
and Christmas, the first quarterly payment thereof to commence &<lb></lb>
be made upon Lady day now next ensuing, And the Receipts of the<lb></lb>
Said John Ditcher together with this Order Shall be Sufficient Discharges<lb></lb>
to the Said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1253">Treasurer</rs>
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for Such payments.</p>
<p n="1095">By adjornment on Thursday the 25th. Day of February, 1747.</p>
<p n="1096"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for appointing<lb></lb>
Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1096-1">Anne Style</rs>
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to be<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1254">Matron of the House</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1682">Correction at Clerkenwell</rs>
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}</note>
It appearing to this Court that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1096-2">Sarah Whittenberry</rs>
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late Matron of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1683">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1684">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in this County is lately dead, This Court<lb></lb>
thinking it necessary that a New Matron Should be forthwith appointed in<lb></lb>
her Stead, Doth thereupon nominate and appoint Anne Style to be<lb></lb>
Matron to the Said House of Correction at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo1685">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the place and<lb></lb>
Stead of the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1096-3">Sarah Whittenberry</rs>
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To have hold execute and enjoy<lb></lb>
the Said Office, Place, or Employment of Matron, and to keep her Residence<lb></lb>
there, and to take care of and be assisting to Women who Shall happen to be<lb></lb>
with Child and delivered of the Same in the Said House, and also to be</p>
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