January 1788
Middlesex
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 adjournment) on Thursday the Tenth day of January
in the Twenty eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
third
King of Great Britain Etc Before
William Mainwaring< no role >
Esquire
Samuel Glasse< no role >
,
Herbert Mayo< no role >
Doctors in Divinity
,
Thomas Gordon< no role >
Charles Friquet< no role >
,
William Quarrill< no role >
,
John Staples< no role >
,
Joseph Girdler< no role >
, david
Wilmot, Samuel Davey Liptrap,
Thomas Collins< no role >
,
William Addington< no role >
Nicholas Bond< no role >
,
Herbert Whitfeld< no role >
,
Henry Holland< no role >
,
John Barnfather< no role >
James Paine< no role >
,
William Bleamire< no role >
,
Nathaniel Conant< no role >
,
Edward Read< no role >
William Gowan< no role >
,
Edward Gray< no role >
,
William Phillimore< no role >
,
William Coleman< no role >
Edward Webster< no role >
,
Richard Smart< no role >
,
Thomas Scott< no role >
,
david Walker< no role >
Jeremiah Bentham< no role >
Esquires
Justices Etc
:
William Mainwaring< no role >
Esquire
the Chairman
informed the
Court that there is a Bill now before the House of Commons
for pulling down the
Church of St. James Clerkenwell
in this County and for Rebuilding the same and for
making a Church Yard or Cemetary in the said Parish with convenient avenues
and Passages thereto and that there was a Clause inserted in the said Bill for
assessing the Session House for this County at such Sum as to them shall seem
meet. That the Session House for this County was now pursuant to the directions
of the Act of Parliament for building the same assessed at the same Rate as the
Ground and Buildings whereon the Session House is erected was assessed in the
Year 1777 Vizt. At the Sum of £135 and that the Sum Total paid for Taxes by
the County on account thereof was £68..10..0 and that there were also other
Clauses in the said Bill which might affect the Interest of this County in
respect to the New Bridewell
intended to be built within the said Parish
Resolved that the Chairman be requested to attend to the Progress of the said
Bill in the House of Commons and such Measures be taken as may be