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<p n="40"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City Borough & Town of Westmr.<lb></lb>
in the County of Middx</note>
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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n40-1">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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the King, holden at <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65430_geo39">the Court</rs>
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House near <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65430_geo40">Westminster</rs>
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in & for the Liberty of the Dean & Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westmr. the City Borough & Town of Westmr. in the County of Middx & St Martin Le Grand London <del>for the County of<lb></lb>
atin the County aforesaid</del>
on Wednesday<lb></lb>
the Fifth Day of October in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord GEORGE the Second, King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith:<lb></lb>
Before Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n40-2">John Gonson</rs>
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Knt. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n40-3">Richard Farwell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n40-4">Samuel Edge</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n40-5">James Fraser</rs>
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Esqrs.<lb></lb>
and other their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the Peace in the<lb></lb>
<del>County</del>
Liberty aforesaid; and also, to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misdeeds<lb></lb>
committed in the same<del>County</del>
Liberty</p>
<p n="41"> WHEREAS at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at the Court House near Westmr. Hall<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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in and for the<del>County</del>
Liberty aforesaid, on Wednesday the fifth Day of October in the<lb></lb>
Year of our Lord 1743, being the first General Quarter Sessions, of the Peace held for this<del>County,</del>
Liberty after the<lb></lb>
24th Day of June 1743, the Keeper of the Gatehouse Prison in<lb></lb>
this<del>County,</del>
Liberty did deliver to the Justices, assembled at the said Sessions, and Subscribed in open Court, a Lift in Writing,<lb></lb>
which he there declared before them, upon his Oath, to be a true, exact, perfect, and just Lift of all such Persons as were<lb></lb>
truly Prisoners in the said Goal or Prison of the Gatehouse on the first Day of January 1742,<lb></lb>
at the Suit or Suits of the several Persons therein respectively mentioned; which Lift doth mention the Time when such Prisoner<lb></lb>
or Prisoners were charged in Custody; and did take and Subscribe the Oath prescribed by a late Act of Parliament, made in the<lb></lb>
Sixteenth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, Intitled, An An for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors: And forasmuch<lb></lb>
as <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n41-1">John Stiles</rs>
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whose Name was inserted in the said Lift, being in Custody in<lb></lb>
the Goal or Prison aforesaid, at the Suit of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n41-2">George Hall</rs>
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and Whereas the said <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n41-3">George Hall</rs>
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the Ptt<lb></lb>
Did give & leave notice<del>in</del>
writing with the Deft <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n41-4">John Stiles</rs>
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Comanding the sd Deft John<lb></lb>
Stiles to appear before the Justices at their next General or Quarter Sessions of the peace<lb></lb>
to be held for the sd City & Liberty of Westmr or the adjornment thereof which should next<lb></lb>
happen after thirty dayes from the publication thereof in order to deliver in upon oath &<lb></lb>
subscribe a Schedule of the Estate & Effects of the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65430_n41-5">John Stiles</rs>
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and that his other Creditors<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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might come in for their distributive share pursuant to the late Statute to made for Releif for Insolvent<lb></lb>
Debtors<lb></lb>
did PetitionOne of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65430_occ15">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of the said County, the<lb></lb>
Day oflast past, to grant a Warrant under his Hand and Seal, to require the Keeper of the said<lb></lb>
Prison to bring h the said Prisoner before the Justices at this present GeneralSessions, together with the<lb></lb>
Warrant to h Detainer, and a Copy of the Cause or Causes h was charged with, and also left a true Copy of h<lb></lb>
Schedule, with the said Justice, as the said Act directs. Whereupon the said Justice, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal,<lb></lb>
bearing Date theDay oflast, did require the Keeper of the said Prisons, to bring<lb></lb>
the Body of the said Prisoner to this Court, this present Sessions, together with the Warrant of h Detainer, and a Copy<lb></lb>
of the Cause with which h stood charged in Custody as aforesaid; and also gave a Writing importing Notice to all<lb></lb>
the Creditors of the said Prisoner, under his Hand and Seal, that he had granted such Warrent, and that the said Prisoner had<lb></lb>
petitioned to be Discharged Now forasmuch as the Keeper of the said Prison hath this Day brought into Court the<lb></lb>
Body of the said Prisoner, together with a Copy of the cause h e stood charged with, and it having been now made<lb></lb>
appear upon Oath, That due Notice of the said Summons or Writing<obscured></obscured>
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