London to wit
6 April 1741 .

The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their oath present. That the City of London is an antient City and that
according to the Custom of the said City from the time whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary used and approved in the same
at a Court of Wardmole held for the Ward of Bishopsgate London to Wit in the Parish of Saint Helen in the said Ward according
to the said Custom of the said City and Court aforesaid on the Twenty Second day of December in the Fourteenth year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and so forth before Sir Robert
Godschall< no role > Knight then and new one of the Aldermen of the said City and then and yet Alderman of the said Ward one John
Pugett< no role > late of the Parish of Saint Botolph Bishopsgate in the same Ward of Bishopsgate Merchant then and long
before being an Inhabitant and Resiant within the Same Parish and Ward and a fit and proper person to execute the Office of
Constable within the Same Ward was lawfully and in a due manner and according to the Custom of the said City and said Court
of Wardmote then and there elected to be one of the Constable for and within the same Ward for one Year then next ensuing
by the Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott within the same Ward whereof the said John Pugett< no role >
afterwards to wit on the said Twenty Second day of December in the same Year and at divers other Days and times at
London aforesaid in the Same Parish and Ward had Notice Nevertheless the said John Pugett little regarding his
Duty in this behalf but endeavouring and intending as much as in him lay totally to hinder and retard the due execution of
Justice from the said Twenty Second day of Dcember in the same Year untill the day of the taking of this Inquisition at the same
Parish and Ward and upon the Same Twenty Second day of December in the same Fourteenth year of our said Lord the King
Voluntarily obstinately and contemptuously wholly refused denyed and neglected to take upon himself and execute the said Office
of Constable against his said Duty in manifest contempt and delay of Justice to the bad Example of all officers in the like Case offending
and against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity and so forth. And the said Jurors upon their said
oath further present that the said John Pugett< no role > the same Twenty Second day of December in the fourteenth year aforesaid
and long before and always after untill the day of the taking of this Inquisition was inhabiting and resiant and paying Scott
and bearing Lott within the said Parish of Saint Botolph Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishopsgate aforesaid And that
within the Ward of Bishopsgate aforesaid there is and from the time whereof the memory of Man is not to the contrary
there hath been a Certain Court of our Lord the King now and his predecessors called the Wardnote held and to be hold in
every year in and upon the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle Unless the said Feast happened to be on a Sunday and in
such Case upon the Day then next following the said Feast before the Alderman of the Ward aforesaid for the time being or his
Deputy In which said Court according to the Custom within the said Ward for all the time aforesaid used and approved to
Wit in the said Parish of Saint Helen in the Ward aforesaid All the Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing
Lott for the time being within the Ward aforesaid have been used accustorned ought and were bound by resaon of their
Residence to appear in the said Court and to do their Suit there And in the said Court according to the Custom of the said
Court yearly for all the time aforesaid the said Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott for the time
being within the Ward aforesaid were used accustomed and ought to appoint and choose divers persons then Inhabiting
and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott within the Ward aforesaid Constables in and for the said Ward fr the preserving of the
peace of the said Lord the King and for apprehending of Rogues Vagabonds and other Suspicious Persons within the Ward aforesaid
for the Publick Good Which said Persons so as aforesaid appointed and chosen were used accustomed and ought to hold the said Office
for the Year then next ensuing and untill another Person should be elected into their said Office And also were used accustomed
and ought on the Monday next after the Feast of Epiphany next after their said Election to take their Corporal oath for the due
execution of their said Office at the Guildhall of the said City in the Court there held before the Mayor and Aldermen of the said
City for the time being for all the time aforesaid And that the said John Pugett< no role > the said Twenty Second day of December
in the Fourteenth Year aforesaid the same day being the day next following the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle which said Feast