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 Wardmote held for the Ward of Bishopsgate London to wit in the Parish of
St. 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 Sr. Robert Godschall< no role > Knt . then and now 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 St. 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
Constables for and within the same Ward for one Year then next ensuring by the Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott
and bearing Lott within the same Ward whereof the said John Pugett< no role > afterwards to with on the said twenty second day of
December in the same Year and at diverse 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 binder and retard the due execution of Justice from the said twenty
second day of December 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 denied 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 others 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 aforesd. 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 St. Botolph Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishopsgate afd 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 Wardmote held and to be held 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 inhabting and
resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott for the time being within the Ward afd have been used accustomed ought and were
bound by reason 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 afd the said Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott
for the time being within the Ward afd were used accustomed and ought to appoint and chuse diverse persons
then Inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott within the Ward afd 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 afd for the Publick Good which sd. Persons so as aforesd. 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 afd And that the said John Pugett< no role > the said twenty second day of December in the Fourteenth Year
afd The same Day being the Day next following the feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle which said Feast in
the said Fourteenth year happened to be on a Sunday in the said Court of Wardmote then held for the Ward aofresd.