By adjournment on Thursday the fifth day of December 1754
Order for Mr. Higgs Trearer
to pay £3.13s.8d to Mr. Henry
Wallbanck keeper of Clerkenwell
Bridewell
for moneys by him
disbursed for the Interment of
Prisoners.
An Account being laid before this Court of moneys disbursed by Mr.
Henry Wallbanck< no role >
Keeper of the House
of Correction commonly called Clerkenwell
Bridewell
in this County
for the Interment of divers Prisoners who died in the said Prison beginning the twenty
eighth day of December 1752 and ending the ninth day of April 1754 amounting in the
whole to the Sum of three pounds thirteen shillings and eight pence and it appearing to
this Court by Writing under the Hands of
George Errington< no role >
and
George Greene< no role >
Esqrs.
two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
of this County that they had perused the
said Account and did allow that there was due to the said
Henry Wallbanck< no role >
the said Sum
of three pounds thirteen shillings and eight pence It is thereupon Ordered by this
Court that Mr.
John Higgs< no role >
Treasurer
of this County do pay the said Sum of three
pounds thirteen shillings and eight pence out of the County Stock when he shall have sufficient money in his hands for that purpose unto the said
Henry Wallbanck< no role >
in full of his said demand whose Receipt together with this
Order shall be a sufficient discharge to the said Treasurer
for such payment.
By adjournment on Thursday the fifth day of December 1754
Order for Mr. Higgs Trear to
pay £24.10s.0d to Mr. Roger
Jackson< no role >
Coroner
for the Liberty
of Westminster
for taking
Inquisitions
Whereas Mr.
Roger Jackson< no role >
Coroner
for the City and Liberty of Westminster
in the
County of Middx hath produced and laid before this Court a List of Inquisitions taken on
view of dead Bodies in the Liberty of Westminster
in the said County since the seventh
day of December 1753 and chargeable on the said County pursuant to an Act of
Parliament made in the twenty fifth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King
George the second Intituled an Act for giving proper Rewards to Coroners for the
due Execution of their Office and for Amoval of Coroners upon a lawfull Conviction
for certain Misdemeanors which Inquisitions contain the Names of the Bodies
viewed being twenty nine in Number And the said Coroner alledging that the money
payable to him for the Allowances to be made to him by virtue of the said Act
of Parliament doth amount to the Sum of twenty four pounds and ten shillings
This Court being satisfied of the truth of the premisses doth at the request of the said
Roger Jackson< no role >
Order that Mr.
John Higgs< no role >
Treasurer
of the said County of Middx
do pay the said Sum of twenty four pounds and ten shillings out of the County Stock
unto him the said
Roger Jackson< no role >
in full of his said demand when the said
Treasurer
shall have money in his Hands sufficient to pay the same whose Receipt
together with this Order shall be a sufficient Discharge to the said Treasurer
for such payment.