January 1788.

necessary to present any undue Advantage being taken or any improper Burthen
laid on the Properly belonging to this County within the said Parish and that if
the same cannot be prevented in the Committee that a Petition be presented to the
House of Commons for that purpose.

By Adjournment Same day.

The Clerk of the Peace informed the Court that several of the Surveyors
for this County were attending the Court in consequence of the Official Letter written
by him requiring their attendance on this Court in pursuance of the Order of the last
Session for that purpose, Whereupon they were directed to be called in when the
following Gentlemen appeared Vizt.

Mr Thomas Rogers< no role >
Mr John Hele
Mr William Stokes< no role >
Mr Charles Beazley< no role >
Mr John Powsey< no role >

Mr William Croshaw< no role >
Mr Samuel Coles< no role >
Mr John Wilmot< no role >
Mr Robert Golden< no role >
Mr John Jagger< no role > .

Mr Thomas Reynolds< no role > and Mr Thomas Dade being confined by Illness
sent to request that their personal appearance might be dispensed with which was
granted accordingly.

Henry Holland< no role > Esquire one of His Majestys Justices of the Peace for this
County apologized to the Court for the non attendance of his Relation Mr Richard
Holland< no role > Surveyor for one of the Districts within this County on Account of the
multiplicity of Business in which he was engaged.

The Clerk of the Peace laid before the Court the following Letter which
he had received from Mr J. Crunden Surveyor of the District of Paddington St.
Pancras and St Luke at Chelsea in this County Vizt.

"Hereford Street 10th. Janry 1788 .

Sir,

"I have received the favour of your official Letter of the 2d. Instant, but
the Words of it prevent my attending that Court for which I have the most profound
respect, as it would be a tacit Acknowledgement of having committed Irregularities
in the execution of my Office, that in reality have no Existence; I therefore Submit