Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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19th May 1743 - 22nd February 1753

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the respective Petty Constables and Headboroughs, within their
respective Divisions aforesaid, [..] whom this Court doth
require to aid and assist the said respective high Constables there in)
or so many of them as the said High Constables respectively shall
think sufficient for this Purpose And that the said respective High
Constables, and such Petty Constables and Headboroughs as their
respective Assistants, do app [..] rehend all and every such Drivers
of Wheelbarrows with Dice, throwers at Cocks, & other Fowls and such other Person
or Persons whom they shall find offending in any of the Premisses
abovementioned, and Carry them and every of them so offending
before one or more of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the
said County, to be further dealt with according to Law And the
said respective High Constables and other Peace Officers are
required to be aiding and assisting to the Justices of the Peace
of the said County and each of them, and to observe their order
and Directions for the more effectuall suppressing and preventing
the abuses aforesaid And it is further ordered by this Court,
That this Order be forthwith printed and posted up in proper
Places for the better Notification thereof

By adjornment on Thursday the 22d. day of Febry, 1753 .

Order for Mr. Henry Wallbanck< no role >
Govenor and Keeper of the
House of Correction at
Clerkenwell to be allowed
and paid a yearly Salary
of £50. by the Treasurer
of the County Rate Money.}

It being Represented unto this Court by Mr. Henry Wallbanck< no role >
Governor and Keeper of the House of Correction at Clerkenwell in the
County (the Same being a Prison for confining and keeping Rogues
Vagabonds, disorderly persons and other Malefactors committed
thither untill legally discharged from thence) That he hath been at
great Trouble and Expence in and about looking after the Said Prison
and preventing the Prisoners therein from making their Escapes from
thence, and that he hath been obliged to employ and doth employ three
Men Servants for that purpose which Men Servants are also frequently
obliged to convey Prisoners fromfromthe Said Prison at one and the Same time
before Several Justices of the Peace living a considable distance from
each other to whom it Stands referred by order of Sessions to continue
Bail or discharge Such Prisoners, and that he hath been forced to pay
his Said Men Servants and also his Maid Servant for their Service
out of the fees to him paid by Prisoners upon their Discharges out of
the Said Prison, And that great Numbers of the Said Prisoners who




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