Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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12th January 1784 - 10th September 1789

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Image 172 of 54212th August 1785


September 1785

Resolved That all the former Powers vested in the Chairman
for carrying this matter into Execution be Continued

By adjournment same day
The Clerk of the Peace informed the Court that he had received
the following answer from the Body of People called Quakers relative
to the Premises held by them of this County Vizt.

"At a Six Weeks meeting of the People called Quakers
held the 19th. of the 7th. month 1785-Joseph Woods< no role > from
the Committee appointed to look out for suitable Situations
for the Family at Clerkenwell brought in the following
minute Vizt.

'At a Committee of the Six Weeks meeting and of Friends School
'and Work house the 8th. of 7th. month 1785 Present of the Six
'Weeks meeting Henry Sterry< no role > Josh. Woods< no role > , Thos. Wagstafe< no role >
'Thomas Corbyn< no role > , John Emerson< no role > , Jacob Hagen< no role > Junr. Thomas
'Howard, William Dillwyn< no role > .-Of the School and Workhouse ,
'Simon Bailey< no role > , Wilson Birkbeck, Josh.Gurney< no role > , Bevan Hagger< no role >
'Allis, Thos Bennet Smith, Robert Webb< no role > , William Allen< no role > , William
'Gunn, Josiah Messer< no role > .

The following Resolution from the General Quarter
Session for Middlesex in answer to an application made by direction of
this Committee for liberty to keep the Family one year longer in the Premises
at Clerkenwell , was sent in and read Vizt.

'At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
'Lord the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex
'at the session House for the said County (by adjourned)
'on Thursday the 30th. day of June in the 25th. year of the
'Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the 3rd. King of
'Great Britain etc

Resolved that the Body of People called Quakers be permitted to hold
the several Tenements & Hereditaments belonging to this County now
in their Possession upon Condition of Postponing the payment of the




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