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<p n="438"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> Town and County of<lb></lb>
the Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo452">Newcastle<lb></lb>
upon Tyne</rs>
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. </note>
<lb></lb>
At the General QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE of our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King, held in and for Said Town and County at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo453">Guildhall</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the said Town, on Wednesday the twenty fifth Day of April in the twenty-<lb></lb>
first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the faith, and so<lb></lb>
forth, before the Right Worshipful <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n438-1">John Erasmus Blackett</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_n438-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ284">Esquire</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_occ284" type="occupation" value="Esquire"></interp>
, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ285">Mayor</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
the Worshipful <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n438-2">Christopher Fawcett</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_n438-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ286">Esq</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_occ286" type="occupation" value="Esq"></interp>
; <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ287">Recorder</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_occ287" type="occupation" value="Recorder"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n438-3">Charles Atkinson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_n438-3" type="surname" value="Atkinson"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_n438-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n438-4">John Hedley</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_n438-4" type="surname" value="Hedley"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_n438-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50740_n438-5">Hugh Hornby</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_n438-5" type="given" value="Hugh"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_n438-5" type="surname" value="Hornby"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_n438-5" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ288">Esquires</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_occ288" type="occupation" value="Esquires"></interp>
, and others their Associates,<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ289">Justices</rs>
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of our said Lord the king, assigned to keep the Peace of our said<lb></lb>
Lord the King in the said Town and County Etc</p>
<p n="439"> THE said Justices by Virtue of an Act of Parliament, intitled An Act<lb></lb>
for the better Repairing and Amending the Highways, and for the Set-<lb></lb>
tling the Rates for Carriage of Goods, do asses and rate the Prices of the<lb></lb>
Land-carriage of all Goods whatsoever,(except Gold and Silver Plate,<lb></lb>
Jewels and Money)which shall from and after the said twenty-fifth Day<lb></lb>
of April Instant until the first General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to<lb></lb>
be holden in and for the said Town and County after Easter Day now next<lb></lb>
ensuing, be brought by any Common Waggoner or Carrier, into this<lb></lb>
Town and County from the Places hereafter-mentioned respectively, at<lb></lb>
the respective Rates and Prices following,viz</p>
<p n="440"> From the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo454">City of London</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo454" type="placeName" value="City of London"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo454" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, or Suburbs thereof, for every Parcel or<lb></lb>
not exceeding Six Pounds Weight, One Shilling. For every Pa<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Packet above Six Pounds Weight and not exceeding twenty-one Pound<lb></lb>
Weight,, Two-pence per Pound. for every Parcel or Packet exceeding<lb></lb>
twenty-one Pounds Weight, at and after the Rate of Fourteenth<lb></lb>
per Hundred Weight.</p>
<p n="441"> From the Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo455">Doncaster</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo455" type="placeName" value="Doncaster"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo455" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo456">County of York</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo456" type="placeName" value="County of York"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo456" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, at and according to<lb></lb>
the Rate of Eleven-Pence for every Stone Weight</p>
<p n="442">From the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo457">City of York</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo457" type="placeName" value="City of York"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo457" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, at and according to the Rate of Seven-Pence for<lb></lb>
every Stone Weight;</p>
<p n="443">From the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo458">Town of Pontefract</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo458" type="placeName" value="Town of Pontefract"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo458" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo459">County of York</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo459" type="placeName" value="County of York"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo459" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, at and according<lb></lb>
to the Rate of Seven-Pence for every Stone Weight.</p>
<p n="444">From the Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo460">Leeds</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo460" type="placeName" value="Leeds"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo460" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo461">County of York</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo461" type="placeName" value="County of York"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo461" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, at and according to<lb></lb>
the Rate of Six pence for every Stone Weight</p>
<p n="445">From the Town of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo462">Ripon</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo462" type="placeName" value="Ripon"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo462" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo463">County of York</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo463" type="placeName" value="County of York"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo463" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
at and according to<lb></lb>
the Rate of Five-pence for every Stone Weight</p>
<p n="446">From the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo464">Town of Hexham</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo464" type="placeName" value="Town of Hexham"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo464" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo465">County of Northumberland</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo465" type="placeName" value="County of Northumberland"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo465" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, at and ac-<lb></lb>
cording to the Rate of Three Half-pence Ferthing for every Stone Weight.</p>
<p n="447">From the City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo466">Carlisle</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo466" type="placeName" value="Carlisle"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo466" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo467">County of Cumberland</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo467" type="placeName" value="County of Cumberland"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo467" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
at and according<lb></lb>
to the Rate of Four-pence for every Stone Weight.</p>
<p n="448">From the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo468">City of Edinburgh</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo468" type="placeName" value="City of Edinburgh"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo468" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, in that Part of Great Britain, called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo469">scot-<lb></lb>
land</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo469" type="placeName" value="scot-land"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo469" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
or the Suburbs thereof, at and according to the Rate of Nine pence<lb></lb>
for every Stone Weight</p>
<p n="449">The above Weights are all Avoirdupois; fourteen Pounds to a Stone,<lb></lb>
and eight Stone to a Hundred Weight.</p>
<p n="450">And it is Ordered by this Court, That these Rates, be printed and imme-<lb></lb>
diately certified by the Clerk of the Peace for this Town and County to<lb></lb>
the Lord Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo470">City of London</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo470" type="placeName" value="City of London"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo470" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
,and to the respective Clerks of the<lb></lb>
Peace for the Counties of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo471">Middlesex</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo471" type="placeName" value="Middlesex"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo471" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo472">Surry</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo472" type="placeName" value="Surry"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo472" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, and the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo473">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo473" type="placeName" value="City and Libertyof Westminster"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo473" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
the Maryor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo474">Town of Doncaster</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo474" type="placeName" value="Town of Doncaster"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo474" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
the Lord Mayor<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo475">City of York</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo475" type="placeName" value="City of York"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo475" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
the Mayor of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo476">Pontefract</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo476" type="placeName" value="Pontefract"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo476" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, the Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo477">Town of<lb></lb>
Leeds</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo477" type="placeName" value="Town ofLeeds"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo477" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, the Mayor of the<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo478"> Town of Ripon</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo478" type="placeName" value=" Town of Ripon"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo478" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, to the Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo479">City of Car-<lb></lb>
lisle</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo479" type="placeName" value="City of Car-lisle"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo479" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
the Bailiff of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo480">Manor of Hexham</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo480" type="placeName" value="Manor of Hexham"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo480" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, and the Lord Provost of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50740_geo481">City of Edingburgh</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo481" type="placeName" value="City of Edingburgh"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_geo481" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
, to be them respectively hung up in Proper public<lb></lb>
Places, to which all Persons may report for Information; And to the End,<lb></lb>
That no Common Waggoner or Carrier may be ignorant of the Law,<lb></lb>
They may hereof take Notice, That none of them shall take for Carriage of<lb></lb>
Goods and Merchandize above the Rates and Prices hereby set, upon Pain<lb></lb>
to forfeit, for every such Offence the Sum of five Ponds to beleived<lb></lb>
by Distress and Sale of his and their Goods by Warrant or any two Ju-<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50740_occ290">stices of the Peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50740_occ290" type="occupation" value="stices of the Peace"></interp>
where such Waggoner and Carrier shall reside in Man-<lb></lb>
ner as by the said Act is appointed to the Use of the Party Grieved</p>
<p n="451">By the Court<lb></lb>
GIBSON<lb></lb>
Clerk of the Peace for the said Town and County</p>
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