October 1786

Middlesex .

At the General Quarter 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
Twenty sixth day of October in the Twenty seventh Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great
Britain Etc Before William Mainwaring< no role > Esquire ; Sir
Robert Taylor< no role > , Sir Lawrence Cox< no role > Knights , Thomas Brooksbark,
James Croft< no role > , James Paine< no role > , William Hyde< no role > , Edward Gray< no role > , John
Staples, Joseph Girdler< no role > , David Walker< no role > , Rice Davies< no role > , Richard Tayler< no role > ,
Edward Montague< no role > , John Wright< no role > , Thomas Collins< no role > , David Wilmot< no role > ,
John Woodham< no role > , Humphrey Jackson< no role > , Henry Holland< no role > , Charles
Sheppard, Thomas Gordon< no role > , John Barnfather< no role > , William Bleamire< no role > ,
Thomas Fellows< no role > , Henry Lambe< no role > , William Coleman< no role > & Edward
Webster< no role > Esquires Justices Etc

Whereas by the Virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the twelfth year
of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second Intitled " An Act
" for the more easy assessing collecting and levying County Rates" The Justices
of the Peace in that part of Great Britain called England within the respective
Limits of their Commissions at their General or Quarter Sessions or the greater
part of them then and there assembled having full power and authority
from time to time to make one General Rate or Assessment for such Sum
or Sums of Money as the Justices in their discretion shall think sufficient
to answer all and every the Ends and purposes mentioned in the said Act
Now for as much as it appeareth unto this Court that more than three
fourths of the Money of the last Rate made in April Session last being the
last preceeding Rate hath been paid and expended to answer the Ends and
Purposes mentioned in the said Act of Parliament and that it is necessary
a considerable Sum of Money should be raised and a Rate made upon the
Towns Parishes and Places in the said County for raising of Money to answer
the several Ends and purposes mentioned in the said Act of Parliament This
Court upon Consideration of the Premises is of Opinion and Doth
accordingly Order That a General Rate be made and assessed upon every