By adjournment on Thursday the fourteenth day of July 1757 .

Order desiring George Cooke< no role > and
George Colebrooke< no role > Esqrs . to wait
on the End of Holderness
concerning the Enlargement of
Jacob Jlive< no role > out of the Custody
of the Keeper of the House of
Correction at Clerkenwell .

It is Ordered by this Court That it be and it is hereby requested and desired of
George Cooke< no role > and George Colebrooke< no role > Esqrs . two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
of this County at such time as they shall think proper to wait on the Right Honoble
the Earl of Holderness and acquaint his Lordship that Jacob Jlive who was committed
to the keeper of the House of Correction at Clerkenwell in this County by virtue of a
Rule of his Majesty's Court of Kings Bench made in Trinity Term in the twenty
ninth year of the reign of his present Majesty there to be kept to hard Labour for
the Space of three years was delivered out of the Custody of the Keeper of the
said House of Correction on the thirtieth day of April last unto Mr. Carrington
one of his Majesty's Messengers in pursuance of his Lordship's Warrant for
that purpose That the said Jacob Jlive has not been brought back to the said
House of Correction and that the Keeper thereof has informed this Court that he
apprehends the said Jacob Jlive is totally discharged by virtue of the said
Warrant from the Imprisonment mentioned in the said Rule of the Court of
King's Bench And the said George Cooke< no role > and George Colebrooke< no role > Esqrs . are
desired to know of his Lordship whether the said Jacob Jlive is not to be
delivered back into the Custody of the Keeper of the said House of Correction
And the said Mr. Cooke and Mr. Colebrooke are desired to report his
Lordship's Answer on the County day of the next or any subsequent Sessions
of the Peace to be holden for this County.

By adjournment on Thursday the fourteenth day of July 1757.

Order about Vagrants Etc.

Whereas a Complaint having been made to this Court of the Growing Expence
arising to this County from the apprehending and passing Vagrants and of the Frauds
committed by the Officers conveying such Vagrants Etc a Committee was appointed
to consider from what Causes such Expence arose and Frauds were committed
and also to consider of some Method to ease the County and to prevent such
Impositions for the future which Committee on the 21st. of April East did
make their Report touching the Premisses to this Court as follows vizt.

Report
21st. April
1757.

Your Committee are of Opinion That the great Expence complained of and
the Frauds committed have their Rise from the following Causes

1st. That one Cause of this Expence is the great Relaxation in the Executing the
Statute of the 17th. of his present Majesty called the Vagrant Act which is
evidently proved from the Swarms of Beggars infesting the Streets some
produced by real Distress and others who by artfull Disguises of Wretchedness