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<p n="266"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">SHROPSHIRE,<lb></lb>
(to wit.)}</note>
<lb></lb>
AT the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Sove-<lb></lb>
reign Lord the King, held at the Shire <del> <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo207">Guild hall</rs>
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</del>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo208">Shrewsbury</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in and for the County of Salop, on Tuesday in the Week next<lb></lb>
after the Close of Easter, (to wit) the Seventeenth Day of April,<lb></lb>
in the thirty eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth,<lb></lb>
and in the Year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred, and <lb></lb>
ninety eight Before The Reverend<obscured></obscured>
Scott Clerk<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-2">Thomas Eyton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-3">John Gardner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-4">Rowland Hunt</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-5">Robert Corbett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-14">John<lb></lb>
Mutton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-15">John, Smitheman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-7">William Smith</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-16">Robert Cheney Hart</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ84">Esquires</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-17">Joseph Plumley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ85">Archdeacon</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo209">Salop</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-8">Charles Buckeridge</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-9">Richard Welding</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-10">Thomas Parry</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-11">Edward Leighton</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-12">John Robert Lloyd</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n266-13">EdwardKynaston</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ86">Clerks</rs>
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<lb></lb>
his Majesty's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the<del>said</del>
<lb></lb>
County, aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Tres-<lb></lb>
passes, and other Misdemeanors in the same County done and<lb></lb>
committed:</p>
<p n="267">THE Justices assembled at this General Quarter Sessions of the Peace have,<lb></lb>
(pursuant to the Statutes made in the third and fourth Years of the Reign of their<lb></lb>
late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, and the twenty-first Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second) assessed and rated the Price of<lb></lb>
all Land-Carriage of Goods whatsoever, (except Money, Plate or Jewels) that shall<lb></lb>
be brought from London to any Place or Places within this Jurisdiction, by any<lb></lb>
common Waggoner or Carrier, at the Rates and Prices following, viz.</p>
<p n="268">£.s.d.</p>
<p n="269">For the Carriage of every Hundred Weight, containing 112lb. from <lb></lb>
Henceforth to the first day of November next} - 8</p>
<p n="270">And from the said first day of November to<lb></lb>
the Easter Sessions following} - 9 -</p>
<p n="271"> And so in Proportion for a greater or less Quantity, (except small Parcels under<lb></lb>
twelve Pounds Weight, and for those one Shilling each) and no more. And it is<lb></lb>
ordered by this Court, that these Rates be certified immediately after this Sessions,<lb></lb>
by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ87">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for this County, to the <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n271-1">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the City of<lb></lb>
London; and also to the respective <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ88">Clerks of the Peace</rs>
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for the Counties of Mid-<lb></lb>
dlesex and Surry, and City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65511_geo210">Westminster</rs>
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; and likewise be certified to<lb></lb>
the several Mayors and other Chief Officers of each respective Market Town in this<lb></lb>
Jurisdiction, and be affixed up in some Public Places in every such Market Town,<lb></lb>
to which all Persons may resort for their Information.</p>
<p n="272">By the Court, <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65511_n272-1">Geo: Wingfield</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65511_occ89">Deputy Clerk of the peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the County of Salop</p>
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