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<p n="894"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">SHROPSHIRE,<lb></lb>
(to wit.)}</note>
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AT the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Sove-<lb></lb>
reign Lord the King, held at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo522">Shirehall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo523">Shrewsbury</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo524">County of Salop</rs>
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, on Tuesday in the Week next<lb></lb>
after the Close of Easter, (to wit) the second Day of April,<lb></lb>
in the thirty-ninth 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-nine: Before <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ272">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n894-1">Corbet Corbet</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ273">Bart</rs>
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. and <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n894-2">John Kynaston<lb></lb>
Powell,</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ274">Esq</rs>
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. and others their companions, his Majesty's Justices<lb></lb>
assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid, and also to<lb></lb>
hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misde-<lb></lb>
meanors in the same County done and<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="895">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="896">£.s.d.</p>
<p n="897"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
For the Carriage of every Hundred Weight, containing 112lb. from<lb></lb>
henceforth to the first day of November next<hi rend="braceResult"> 0 8 0</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="898">And from the said first day of November, to the Easter Sessions following 0 9 0</p>
<p n="899">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="LMWJPS65516_occ275">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for this County, to the Lord Mayor of the City of<lb></lb>
London; and also to the respective <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ276">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="LMWJPS65516_geo525">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="900">By the Court, <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65516_n900-1">Geo: Wingfield</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65516_occ277">Deputy Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65516_geo526">County of Salop</rs>
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.</p>
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