the expences and are as much Officers of the County as the City

The Justices do not desire or intend to encrease any part
of the expences and cannot but wonder that they are opposed
by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen from having his Majestys
favour of granting that some of them may be in that
Comission, aswell as the Aldermen who are in the Goal
Delivery of Middlesex and as time out of mind some
of the Justices of the peace in all the Countyes of this
Kingdom have been in the Comissions of Goal Delivery
of their respective Countyes

It is humbly hoped that the County of Middlesex (far
the most considerable of any County or City for Number
and Quality of Inhabitants Wealth and Taxes) shall
not be singular and the Justices of Peace discouraged
or not have the same favour in the Kings Courts as
other Justices of other Countyes do enjoy which they
humbly Submitt to your Lordships Judgment.

And the Justices do further crave leave to inform
your Lordship that the Juries for Middlesex at the
old Baily have frequently been discharged without
any Notice given to the Sessions at Hicks hall and
when severall Bills of Indictment for Felony have
been depending before the Grand Jury there which
have been afterwards found And imediately sent
down to the Court at the Old Baily after the Jury there
have been discharged
Whereby some prisoners have been discharged out of Custody
and escaped punishment and others could not be tryed till
a Subsequent Sessions, which hath been a great
discouragement to prosecutions against Offenders and
Some times a great hardship to the prisoners and which
were humbly conceive might be prevented by putting
Some of our Number into the Comission of the