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<p n="1145"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">June 1778</note>
By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="1146">Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1146-1">John Benson</rs>
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the County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ512">Treasurer</rs>
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laid before <obscured></obscured>
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Court the following Copy of a Rule of the Court of Kings Bench which<lb></lb>
had been served on him Vizt.</p>
<p n="1147">Tuesday next after five Weeks from the feast day of Easter in the Eight<lb></lb>
Year of King George the third</p>
<p n="1148"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1031">Middlesex</rs>
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</note>
Upon Reading the offidavit of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1148-1">Benjamin Deacon</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ513">Gentleman</rs>
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It is Ordered that Friday next be given to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1148-2">John Benson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ514">Gentlem</rs>
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Treasurer of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1032">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to shew cause why a Writ of Mank<obscured></obscured>
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should not issue directed to him commanding him to pay to the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1148-3">Benjamin Deacon</rs>
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such and the like fees and satisfaction<lb></lb>
for the several persons Fied and Convicted of felony and other<lb></lb>
Offences at the several Sessions of the Delivery of his Majestys <obscured></obscured>
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Goal of Newgate holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1033">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at Justice H<obscured></obscured>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1034">Old Bailey</rs>
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in the Suburbs of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1035">City of London</rs>
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in the yea<obscured></obscured>
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of our Lord 1776 and 1777 and the present Year and ordered to be<lb></lb>
punished by being kept to hard Labour in pursuance to a<lb></lb>
certain Act of Parliament made and passed in the Sixteenth Y<obscured></obscured>
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of his present Majestys Reign Intitled An Act to authorize fo<obscured></obscured>
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"a limited time the punishment by hard Labour of Offenders <obscured></obscured>
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"for certain Crimes are or shall become liable to be Transported to<lb></lb>
"any of his Majestys Colonies and Plantations" as before the passing<lb></lb>
of the said Act of Parliament had been always paid by and received<lb></lb>
of the Contractor for the Transportation of the several Persons con<obscured></obscured>
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of Felony at the several Sessions of delivery of the said Goal of New<obscured></obscured>
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holden for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1036">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Upon notice of this Rule <obscured></obscured>
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be given to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1148-4">John Benson</rs>
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in the mean time</p>
<p n="1149">On the Motion of Mr. Davenport</p>
<p n="1150">By the Court</p>
<p n="1151">And the said Treasurer praying the advice of the Court</p>
<p n="1152">It is Ordered tha the said Rule be referred to <obscured></obscured>
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Prison Committee and that it be an instruction to the said Comm<obscured></obscured>
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to apply to the Court of Kings Bench if they shall think proper</p>
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