Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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Image 287 of 55910th December 1747


Middx.

At the General Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord< no role > the King
holden for the County of Middx at Hicks Hall in St. John Street in the County
aforesaid on Monday the Seventh Day of December in the twenty first year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second King of Great Britain
Etc. and from thence continued by Several adjournments until this Day (to wit)
Thursday the tenth Day of the Same Month of December in the year aforesaid
and on the Same Day holden by Adjournment at Hicks Hall aforesaid in and
for the Said County before Thomas Lane< no role > Esqr . Sir Edward Lawrence< no role > Knt.
John Milner< no role > James Clitherow< no role > , Thomas Burdus< no role > , Stephen Beckingham< no role >
Barwell Smith< no role > Richard Ricards Samuel Tatem< no role > Merry Teshmaker
Robert Tothill< no role > Peter Elers< no role > Robert Paul< no role > Francis Hole< no role > Thomas Moore< no role >
Boulton Mainwaring< no role > William Withers< no role > Walter Berry< no role > John Tall< no role >
Richard Hassell< no role > Henry Broadhead< no role > Philip Dyot< no role > George Errington< no role >
John Lawton< no role > Esqrs . and other their Fellows 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 Misdeeds
committed in the Same County.

Order for limiting and
ascertaining the Rates and
Allowances for passing &
Maintaining Vagabonds Etc}

His Majesty< no role > 's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
now assembled at this General Session of the Peace holden for the Said
County, in pursuance of the Statute made in the Seventeenth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > King George the Second Intituled, An Act to
amend and make more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues,
Vagabonds and other idle and disorderly Persons and to Houses of
Correction, Do hereby Order limit, appoint and direct That the
Several Rates and Allowances per Mile, or otherwise to be made by
any Justice or Justices of the Peace for the Said County, to any Constable
or other Officer of the Same County for the passing Conveying or
Maintaining of Rogues Vagabonds or incorrigible Rogues to be
passed or conveyed as by the Said Act is directed Shall be until farther
Order of the Court of General Quarter or General Session of the Peace
for the Said County to the contrary as followeth, that is to Say, for
maintaining of all and every Such Rogues Vagabonds or incorrigible
Rogues the Rate or Allowance of Six Pence for every Such Person
for four and twenty hours, and So after that Rate for a longer or Shorter
time, and for the passing or conveying of any Such Person or Persons
whose Names are contained in one Pass conveyed or carried alone, or
together at one Time, or Turn, by Cart or Horse Carriage the Rate of Six
Pence per Mile, and no more and for passing or conveying of Such Person
or Persons on Foot under and less that Six Pence per Mile according
to the Discretion of the respective Justices of the Peace for this County
who Shall Sign any Such Passes or Certificates of Allowance.

But if any of the Justices of the Peace of this County Shall think fit,
and See good Cause to allow and Order more or greater Rates for the
Maintaining Conveying and Carrying of any Such Person or Persons to be
conveyed and carried as aforesaid by reason of Such Person's Sickness or




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