Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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3rd May 1753 - 15th September 1757

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Image 134 of 22216th October 1755


Middx.

At the General Quarter Session of the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King begun and holden for the
County of Middx. of Westmr. in the County aforesaid on Thursday the sixteenth day of October in the twenty ninth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second King of Great Britain Etc before Thomas Lane< no role >
George Cooke< no role > peirce Galliard< no role > George Colebrooke< no role > Arthur Jones< no role > Jacob Harvey< no role > Charles Gould< no role > George Errington< no role >
Charles Wale< no role > Philip Dyot< no role > Christopher Scott< no role > George Greene< no role > Merry Teshmaker< no role > Thomas Jervis< no role > Stephen Clarke< no role >
Edmund Byron< no role > Bartholomew Hammond< no role > John Dekewer William Ashby< no role > Francis Bedwell< no role > William Withers< no role >
Walter Berry< no role > Richard Morris< no role > William Walmesley< no role > John Keeling< no role > George Garret< no role > Ebenezer Mussell< no role > William
Harvey John Cox< no role > Richard Chamberlayne< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > Boulton Mainwaring< no role > Robert Hale< no role > Robert Pell< no role >
John Machin< no role > Esquires Sir Samuel Gower< no role > Knight Thomas Rea Richard Ricards< no role > John Crosse< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > of
White Chappell Hammond Crosse< no role > Sister Selman< no role > Charles Palmer< no role > Joseph St. Lawrence< no role > Esquires and others their
Follows 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 and from thence continued
by several Adjournments untill this day (to wit) Thursday the twenty third day of the same Month of October in the
year aforesaid and on the same day holden by adjournment at Hicks Hall in St. John Street in and for the same
County before the Justices abovenamed and others their Fellows aforesaid.

Order for raising money
for the purposes mentioned
in an Act of Parliamt. for
the more easy assessing
collecting and levying of
County Rates.


£1200

Whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the twelfth year of the reign of his present Majesty King
George the second Intituled An Act for the more easy assessing collecting and levying of County Rates the Justices
of the Peace in that part of Great Britain called England within the respective Limits of their Commissions at their
General or Quarter Sessions or the greater part of them then and there assembled have full Power and Authority
from time to time to make one General Rate or Assessment for such Sum or Sums of money as the Justices in
their Discretions shall think sufficient to answer all and every the Ends and Purposes mentioned in the said
Act Now for as much as it appeareth unto this Court that three fourths of the money of the last Rate made
in December Session 1754 being the last preceding Rate hath been paid and Expended to answer the
Ends and Purposes mentioned in the said Act of Parliament and that it is necessary that a considerable
Sum of money should be raised and a Rate made upon the Towns Parishes and Places in the said
County for raising of money to answer the several Ends and Purposes mentioned in the said Act of
Parliament This Court upon Consideration of the premisses is of Opinion and doth accordingly
Order that a General Rate be made & assessed upon every Town Parish or Place in the said County for
raising the Sum of twelve hundred pounds which this Court doth think necessary to be raised for the
Purposes aforesaid and to the Intent the same Sum may be raised for the Purposes aforesaid This Court
by virtue of the said Act doth assess upon every Town Parish and Place hereinafter mentioned
in the respective Hundreds and Divisions in the said County of Middx. and within the Jurisdiction
and Authority of this Court (according to the proportion they have been usually assessed [..]
towards raising of moneys for the passing and relieving of Vagrants) the respective Sums of
money following (that is to say)

The Hundred of Ossulston
Westminster Division
Upon the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr .65.2.6
The Parish of St. Martin in the Fields 91.2.4
The Parish of St. George Hanover Square 45.11.3
The Parish of St. James within the Liberty of Westmr.90.19.6
That part of St. Clement Danes which is in the Liberty of Westmr.35.0.3
That part of St. Mary le Strand which is in the Liberty of Westmr.8.15.0
The Parish of St. Ann within the Liberty of Westmr.41.11.4
The Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden 30.8.1
408.10.4

Holborn Division
The Parish of St. Giles in the Fields 80.0.0
The Parish of St. Andrew Holborn57.19.7
The Liberty of Saffron Hill Hatton Garden and Ely Rents17.11.4
The Rolls Liberty 10.10.9
The Parish of St. Pancras 11.7.6
The Parish of Hampstead 7.5.6
The Parish of St. Mary le Bone 4.7.9




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