Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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February 1774 - December 1783

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28 Thomas Dade< no role > of High Holbourn Carpenter and Surveyor aged
upwards 60 is recommended by Richd Norris< no role >
Saml Dowbrigger Thos Skinner Thos Bannister
Saml Griffiths Wm Lyster Jno Bird Geo Wyatt< no role >
John Scott< no role > & solicits for any District but on his
examination preferred such as was nearest his own
habitation

29 William Stokes< no role > of Limehouse surveyor & Builder aged 43 recommended
by Christopher Richardson< no role > Timber Mercht &
Successor to the late Mr Dingley Limehouse
Robt Howe Do Samuel Wyat< no role > Farmr Builder at
Limehouse Do Richard Wright< no role > Inn holder
Bishopgate Street I Banger Woollen Draper
Royal Exchange Joseph Booth< no role > & solicits to be
appointed to any District

30 William Robinson< no role > of St John Hackney Architect & Surveyor aged 30
did not deliver any Certificate and solicits to be
appointed to any District within the Tower Hamletts
but on his examination preferred Hackney

Samuel Pepys Cockerell< no role >
Samuel Drake< no role >
John Ward< no role >
Thomas Roworth< no role > }

having been elected Surveyors for the City and
Liberty of Westminster respectively desired to
withdraw their Petitions

The said Committee do recommend it to the Court that the order of
proceedings in the election of Surveyor be as follows

1 That the Chairman do deliver the Report with Original List annexed to the
Court, that the same may be read

2 That each Justice do cut off the first Column of the Printed Lists and to
scratch against the Number of the Names he proposes to be Elected

3 That any List containing more or less than the Number ordered by the Court
be rejected

4 That each Justice do deliver in his List rolled up to the Chairman to be
put into a Bowl to be provided for that purpose

5 That two Scrutineers be Elected by the Court to examine the Lists and Report
the Numbers and Names Scratched

6 That the Ballot be kept open for one Hour after the first List put in

7 That the Ballot be taken in open Court
All which the Committee Submit Etc.




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