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SHROPSHIRE,
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(to wit.)}
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AT the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Sove-
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reign Lord the King, held at the
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, on Tuesday in the Week next
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after the Close of Easter, (to wit) the second Day of April,
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in the thirty-ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
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George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain,
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France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth,
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and in the Year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred, and
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ninety-nine: Before
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John Kynaston
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Powell,
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. and others their companions, his Majesty's Justices
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assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid, and also to
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hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other Misde-
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meanors in the same County done and
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THE Justices assembled at this General Quarter Sessions of the Peace have,
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(pursuant to the Statutes made in the third and fourth Years of the Reign of their
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late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, and the twenty-first Year of the
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Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second) assessed and rated the Price of
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all Land-Carriage of Goods whatsoever, (except Money, Plate or Jewels) that shall
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be brought from London to any Place or Places within this Jurisdiction, by any
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common Waggoner or Carrier, at the Rates and Prices following, viz.
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£.s.d.
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For the Carriage of every Hundred Weight, containing 112lb. from
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henceforth to the first day of November next
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And from the said first day of November, to the Easter Sessions following 0 9 0
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And so in Proportion for a greater or less Quantity, (except small Parcels under
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twelve Pounds Weight, and for those one Shilling each) and no more. And it is
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ordered by this Court, that these Rates be certified immediately after this Sessions,
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by the
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for this County, to the Lord Mayor of the City of
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London; and also to the respective
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for the Counties of Mid-
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; and likewise be certified to
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the several Mayors and other Chief Officers of each respective Market Town in this
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Jurisdiction, and be affixed up in some Public Places in every such Market Town,
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to which all Persons may resort for their Information.
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By the Court,
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