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

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Image 466 of 467 December 1783


And it is also Ordered that the High Constables of the several
Divisions and Hundreds of this County as also respective Petty
Constables Headboroughs and other Peace Officers within the same do
carefully exert themselves to put in execution the said Laws And
that they take effectual care to prevent all Persons keeping Taverns
Chocolate Coffee Ale , Beer or other Liquors, or receiving or permitting
Guests to be or remain in such their Houses in the time of divine
service on the Lords day as they will answer the contrary at their Peril

And the said Justices do hereby earnestly exhort All Masters
of Families within the said County more especially such as have
Apprentices, that they, together with their Families and Apprentices duly
attend divine service on the Lords day aforesaid; and in other respects
comply with the uniform Practice of all devout Christians in the
Solemnities proper thereto

Order for the High Constables
[..] levyand paythe County
[..] ate with in their respect
[..] districts and pay, the
[..] same to the Treasurer }

Complaint being made to this Court that the several High
Constables of this County have not yet levied and paid to the Treasurer
"the several Sums of Money Rated and Assessed upon the several Parishes
and Place within this County by an Order of Court made at the last
Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden in and for the said County It is
Ordered that John Wild< no role > one of the High Constables of the Hundred of
Ossulston in this County do on sight hereof forthwith levy and pay to the
Treasurer of and for this County the several Sums of Money Rated and
Assessed upon the several Parishes and Places within his District by the Order
of Court abovementioned as he will answer for his Neglect at his Peril.

The like Order upon the several other High Constables within the said Hundred

All
Any Communication
between the House of
[..] ucher at Clerkenwell
[..] the Tap thereto adjd.
be stopped up}

This Court being informed that since the last Session of the
Peace holden for this County three Prisoners confined in the House of
Correction at Clerkenwell had made their escape out of the said prison
and having examined into the circumstances thereof and it appearing
that the said Prisoners effected their escape over the Roof of the said
Prison by means of a Rope affixed to an Iron Grapple and that there is
reason to suspect such Rope was conveyed into the Prison through
a Window in the Tap house adjoining to the said Prison It is




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