By Adjournment on Thursday the 18th. January 1753
Order for the Treasurer
to pay £16..16s. to Robert
Wright Esqr. one of the
Coroners
of the County
of Middx
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An Account or List of Inquisitions being produced before this
Court by
Robert Wright< no role >
Esqr
. One of the Coroners for the County of
Middlesex
therein mentioning the Same to be taken on the View of
Dead Bodies in the said County by the said Coroner since the
twelfth Day of December 1752 (to wit) since the last Sessions of the
Peace and chargeable on the said County pursuant to an Act of
Parliament made in the twenty fifth Year of the Reign of King
George the Second Intitled an Act for giving a proper Reward to
Coroners
for the due Execution of their Office and for Amoval of
Coroners upon a lawful Conviction for certain Misdemeanors
which Account begins on the fourteenth Day of December 1752
and Ends on the twelfth Day of January in the Same Year therein
mentioned the Bodies to be Viewed in Several Parishes and Places
in Middlesex
and to be fifteen in Numbers And that One Pound
Sixteen Shillings is due to him for the Number of Miles he went
upon that Occasion being forty eight in Number after the Rate
of Nine Pence a Mile and that the Sum of Fifteen pounds is
due to him for his Coroners Fees on View of the said Bodies being
Fifteen in Number as aforesaid which said Sums of One pound
Sixteen Shillings and Fifteen pounds Amount together to the
Sum of Sixteen Pounds Sixteen Shillings And it appearing to this
Court by Writing under the Hands of Merry Teshmaker
George
Errington and< no role >
Walter Berry< no role >
Esquires
three of his Majestys Justices
of the Peace for the said County that they have examined the said
Account and find the Same to be just It is thereupon Ordered
by this Court that Mr.
John Higgs< no role >
Treasurer
of this County do
pay the said Sum of Sixteen pounds Sixteen Shillings unto
the said
Robert Wright< no role >
Coroner
in full of his said Demand
whose Receipt together with this Order shall be a sufficient
Discharge to the said Treasurer
for such payment.