Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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10th June 1713 - 17th October 1721

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to let out to hire or otherwise dispose of that part of the Court
is what has been never menconed or complained of to any of
the Court there, And if It had most certainly the Court would
have paid that Report to the Justices as to have Ordered
a remedy to any such Grievance, And it may be affirmed
with truth that the Justices who do attend with their
Examinacons & Confessions according to their Duty Doe
Constantly find Room and are accomodated during their
attendance on the Bench. What the other Methods are which
have of bete years been used And which make the Justices
uneasy & discourage them in the discharge of that part of
their duly being not menconed cannot Receive an Answer,
And the Lord Mayor & Aldermen who attend that Service
cannot so much as imagine, They for their parts always
treating the Justices with a Respect Suitable to their characters

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That the Judges who sit at the old Baily frequently deliver
their Opinions relating to us and our proceedings which would
be of great use to us to know, That we may regulate Our
selves accordingly, and if some of our Number were put
into that Comission It would give them an opportunity of
informing us from time to time of the Opinions of the Judges
And thereby prevent our transgressing Rules which now we
have no means of being acquainted with

Answer 4

It may be true that the Judges do some times Deliver their
Opinions relating to the Justices and their proceedings, and some
times fine them when offenders escape for went of a
Confession being returned as the State of Parliamt. require,
And if this Gives the Justices any uneasiness & discourages them
in the discharge of that part of their duty, Tis not be
attributed to the Justices not being in the Comission of Goal
Delivery, Because the Acts of parliamt. acquaint them how
they are to regulate themselves in that particular, And as
for other Rules to govern themselves by, If the knowledge
of them may be learnt by attendance at the old Bayly there is
always room & accomodacon for any Number of Justices, who may
be sufficient to inform them of what passes in the Court Altho'
they should not be in the Comission of Goal Delivery, and
his very seldom (if ever) That some of the Justices are not at
the Sessions at the Old Baily , so that their Bretheren cannot
be supposed to be unacquainted with what passes there,




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