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<p n="376"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo272">Leicestershire</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
To Wit.}<lb></lb>
At the General Quarter Sessions of <lb></lb>
the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, holden at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo273">Castle of Leicester</rs>
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, on Tuesday in<lb></lb>
the week, next after the close of Easter: To Wit, the<lb></lb>
24th of April, in the twenty first year of the reign of<lb></lb>
our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, now KING<lb></lb>
of Great-Britain and so forth, and in the year of our<lb></lb>
Lord, 1781: Before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n376-1">William Burleton</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ212">Esq</rs>
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; <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ213">L.L.D.</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ214">The Right Honourable</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n376-2">Thomas Lord Viscount Went-<lb></lb>
worth</rs>
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, Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n376-3">Thomas Fowke</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ215">Knight</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_b376-4">Arthur,<lb></lb>
Hesilrige</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n376-5">Samuel Steele Perkins</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ216">Esquires</rs>
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; The<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ217">Reverend</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n376-6">Henry Hough</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n376-7">Henry Baseley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n376-8">William<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n376-9">William Clayton</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ218">Clerks</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ219">Justices</rs>
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, of<lb></lb>
our said Lord the KING, assigned to keep the Peace of<lb></lb>
our said Lord the KING in the county aforesaid.<lb></lb>
And also to bear and determine divers felonies, tres-<lb></lb>
passes, and other misdemeanors, committed in the said<lb></lb>
county.</p>
<p n="377">It is ordered by the COURT here as followeth:</p>
<p n="378">WHEREAS divers Waggoners and other Carriers,<lb></lb>
by combination among themselves, have raised<lb></lb>
the price of the carriage of goods from the city of Lon-<lb></lb>
don into this county, to excessive rates, to the great<lb></lb>
prejudice and obstruction of trade, for<obscured></obscured>
edy whereof,<lb></lb>
this court, in virtue of the statutes in that case made<lb></lb>
and provided, doth assess, rate and six, the prices of all<lb></lb>
land carriages of goods and merchandize whatsoever to<lb></lb>
he brought from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo274">city of London</rs>
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into the several<lb></lb>
places within this county hereafter mentioned, at the<lb></lb>
several times and seasons of the year hereafter expressed,<lb></lb>
by any common waggoner or carrier, as followeth, (That<lb></lb>
is to say)<lb></lb>
Nor every hundred weight to be brough at any time<lb></lb>
from the 25th of March to the 29th of September, to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo275">Borough of Leicester</rs>
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, 5s and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo276">Market Harborough</rs>
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4s. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo277">Lutterworth</rs>
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4s. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo278">Mountsorrel</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo278" type="placeName" value="Mountsorrel"></interp>
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5s. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo279">Loughborough</rs>
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5s. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo280">Hinckley</rs>
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4s. 6d. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo281">Ashby -de la-zouch</rs>
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5s. 6d. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo282">Market Bosworth</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo282" type="placeName" value="Market Bosworth"></interp>
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5s. and no more.<lb></lb>
And to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo283">Melton Mowbray</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo283" type="placeName" value="Melton Mowbray"></interp>
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5s. and no more.<lb></lb>
And so after the same rates respectively for every<lb></lb>
greater or lesser quantity to be brough during the time<lb></lb>
aforesaid, to the several places above-mentioned, (parcels<lb></lb>
under the weight of 14th. only excepted.)</p>
<p n="379">And for every hundred weight to be brought any time<lb></lb>
between the 29th day of September and the 25th day of<lb></lb>
March.</p>
<p n="380">To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo284">the Borough of Leicester</rs>
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aforesaid, 5s. 6d. and <lb></lb>
no more.</p>
<p n="381">To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo285">Market-Harbro</rs>
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4s. 6d. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo286">Lutterworth</rs>
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4s. 6d. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo287">Mountsorrel</rs>
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5s. 6d. and no more.<lb></lb>
To Loughb<obscured></obscured>
5s. 6d. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo288">Hinckley</rs>
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5s. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo289">Ashey-de la-zouch</rs>
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5s. 6d. and no more.<lb></lb>
To <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo290">Market-Bosworth</rs>
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5s. 6d. and no more.<lb></lb>
And to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo291">Melton-Mowbray</rs>
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5s. 6d. and no more.</p>
<p n="382">And so after the same respective rates, above ascertained,<lb></lb>
for every greater or lesser quantity to be brought to the<lb></lb>
several places above-mentioned, during the time last<lb></lb>
specified. (Parcels under the weight of 14th. only ex-<lb></lb>
cepted.)</p>
<p n="383">And it is further ordered, that 1s. and no more, shall<lb></lb>
or may be taken and received by any common waggoner<lb></lb>
or carrier for the carriage of any parcel or quantity of<lb></lb>
goods and merchandizes under 14lb. weight. from the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo292">city of London</rs>
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to any of the several places in this county<lb></lb>
above-mentioned, at any time or season of the year what<lb></lb>
soever. </p>
<p n="384">By the Court<lb></lb>
Parke<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ220">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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</p>
<p n="385"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo293">Leicestershire</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
To The <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ221">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo294">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
In obedience to an Act of Parliament made in the twenty first year of the<lb></lb>
reign of his late Majesty King George the Second I do hereby Certify that the rates<lb></lb>
and Assessments above set down and expressed were agreed upon and settled by<lb></lb>
his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ222">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the said County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo295">Leicester</rs>
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in the Title of<lb></lb>
the said Rates named as their general quarter Session of the Peace holden for the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo296">County of Leicester</rs>
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at the Time and place in the same Title mentioned<lb></lb>
Dated at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo297">Leicester</rs>
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The 1st. day of May 1781</p>
<p n="386"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n386-1">Reuben Parke</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ223">Clerk of the peace</rs>
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of the said County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo298">Leicester</rs>
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