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