4th. of July 1751.

Middlesex

At the General Quarter session of the peace of our Sovereign Lord
the Kind holdon for the County of Middlesex At Hicks Hall in
Saint John Street in the County aforesaid, by Adjournment
on Thursday the 4th. Day of July , in the 25th. year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second King of Great
Britain Etc before Thomas Lane< no role > , Esqr . the Right Hononrable
George Earl of Kinnoull, Sir Samuel Gower< no role > Knight George
Cooke< no role > , Luke Robinson< no role > Taylor White< no role > , Pierce Galliard< no role > , Henry
Butler Pacey< no role > Henry Norris< no role > , Stephen Beckenham< no role > , Robert
Tothill< no role > Barwell Smith< no role > , Richard Ricards< no role > , Thomas Jervis< no role >
Richard Chamberlayne< no role > , George Garrett< no role > , George Errington< no role >
Richard Dyet< no role > , Boulton Mainwaring< no role > , Charles Gould< no role > William
Withers< no role > Edmund Beron< no role > , William Caslon< no role > , Samuel Bever< no role > ,
John Lawton< no role > , Walter Berry< no role > Esquires and other their Fellows
Justices of one said Lord the King assigned to keep the peace
in the County aforesaid, And also to hear and Determine
divers Felomes, Trespasses, and other Misdeeds committed in
the same County.

About licensing
Victuallers

Whereas the Great Increase of Publick Houses was some years
past complained of and the Justices of peace for this County in [..]
respective Divisions, in order to remedy such Grievance, and put
a stop to such Increase, came to a Resolution not to hierne for the
future any House not heretofore a Publick House, or which had not
been so for three years last past, or which had been Connected into a
private House since the same was a publick one. And Whereas
by a Clause in An Act of the 16th. year of his present Majesty it is
on acted that No Licence shall be Granted to any Person or Persons
whatever, for selling by retail any Spirituous Liquors or strong
waters whatsoever, except to such Persons only who shall keep
Taverus, Victualling Houses, Inns, Coffee-Houses or Alehouses;
And that if any such Licences shall be granted to any other persons
than as aforesaid, the same are thereby declared to be said to all intent
and purposes, By which act it is also provided and declared that
Nothing in the said Act should extend or be continued to enable any
person or persons to sell any Spirituous Liquors or strong waters
by retail, unless such person or persons be first licensed to sell
Ale or Spirituous Liquors by two or more Justices of the peace for the
County, Etc where such Person or Persons shall sell the said Liquors
under the Hounds and seals of Justices. Now this sessions