May 1786

Middlesex .

At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord
the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex at the
Sessions House for the said County (by adjournment ) on
Thursday the first day of June in the Twenty sixth Year of
the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of
Great Britain Etc Before William Mainwaring< no role > Esquire
The Right Honourable Lord Somers; The Honourable
Henry Hobart< no role > Sir Robert Taylor< no role > Knight ; Samuel Glasse< no role > ,
Herbert Mayo< no role > Doctors in Divinity ; Thomas Gordon< no role > ,
William Bleamire< no role > , George Darby< no role > , George Allcock< no role > , John
Lewis, Edward Gray< no role > , David Wilmot< no role > , John Staples< no role > , Edward
Mountague, Joseph Girdler< no role > , Thomas Collins< no role > , Thomas Scott< no role >
Nathaniel Conant< no role > , Thomas Ayliffe< no role > , Richard Tayler< no role > ,
George Mercer< no role > Junr; Henry Holland< no role > , Edward Webster< no role > ,
Jacob Leroux< no role > , Thomas Cogan< no role > , Thomas Brooksbank< no role > , David
Walker, Richard Heaviside< no role > , William Phillimore< no role > , James
Croft, John Barnfather< no role > , James Paine< no role > , Rice Davies< no role > , Robert
Butler, George Byng< no role > , Humphry Jackson< no role > , Robert Smith< no role > ,
William Heckford< no role > Esquires and Richard Neate< no role > Clerk
Justices Etc.

Mr. Leroux stated what had been done at the last Court respecting
the appointment of a Select Committee for carrying into Execution the intended
Building of a House of Correction without Fee or Reward , and proposed to the
Court that he would (if they thought proper) conduct that Business on
the same Terms.

It was Moved by Mr. Montague that the Resolution made on
the County day of the last Session appointing a Select Committee to prepare
particulars of the Work to be done in and about the House of Correction and
to advertize for proposals for carrying the same into Execution Etc, be
rescinded, and upon the question being put upon the Shew of Hands
there appeared for the question 8 against it 13 whereupon it was
declared to be carried in the Negative.

Mr. Leroux having signified his Readiness to join the Select
Committee and informed the Court that he was desirous that the Resolution
of Septr. Sessions 1784 appointing him Surveyor of the intended House of
Correction may from this time cease - the same is Ordered
accordingly.