21st October 1773
Middlesex
At the General Quarter Session
of the peace of our Lord the King holden for the County
of Middlesex
(by Adjournment) at Hicks
Hall in Saint John Street
on Thursday the
21st of October 1773. Before Sir
John Hawkins< no role >
Knt-
Sir
Charles Whitworth< no role >
Knt Sir
Henry Cheere< no role >
Bart
Benjamin Cowley< no role >
,
David Wilmot< no role >
,
Robt Pell< no role >
William Shakespear< no role >
,
Burford Camper< no role >
,
John
Sherwood< no role >
,
John Walford< no role >
,
Saunders Welch< no role >
,
James Spaggs< no role >
,
John Barnfather< no role >
,
Stephen Guyon< no role >
N. Carrington,
Henry Lambe< no role >
,
John Spencer
Colepeper< no role >
,
Richard Hare< no role >
, Tomkyn Due, Wm
Baker,
Chas Gould< no role >
,
James Clitherow< no role >
,
Chas Dodd< no role >
John Pownal< no role >
,
Joseph Keeling< no role >
,
John Brettell< no role >
Thomas Kynaston< no role >
,
Edmund Byron< no role >
John
Machin,
Jeremiah Bentham< no role >
,
Cadwallader Coker< no role >
&
Charles Cheere< no role >
Esquires
, Justices of our said
Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in the
County aforesaid and also to hear and determine
divers Felonies, Trespasses and other misdemeanor
committed in the same County.
It is ordered That no License be granted to the Proprietors of Renelagh or
Marybone Gardens
or of any other place of public Entertainment but under
a Restriction prohibiting the Exhibition of Fireworks
It having been ordered on the County day of last Session that a Chaplain
should be appointed to perform religions Duty according to the Rites of the Church
of England
in the Goal called New Prison
at Clerkenwell
in this County
under the Powers of an Act of Parliament passed in the present year of his
present Majestys Reign and the Court having further ordered that the
nomination and appointment of a Chaplain as aforesaid should be on the
County day of this present Session. The Court proceeded to the nomination
and appointment of a Chaplain as aforesaid. The Revd Mr Thos Richards< no role >
Clk
having presented a Petition to the Court setting forth his desire of doing all
in his power to promote the eternal Welfare of the poor unhappy Prisoners in
new Prison
and offering his Services for that purpose, the said Mr Thos Richards< no role >
being nominated&is unanimously appointed Chaplain to new Prison
by the Justices here present accordingly.