October 1790

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 Twenty eighth day of October in the Thirty
first 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 > , Brackley Kennett< no role > doctors in
divinity , Thomas Gordon< no role > , Richard Heaviside< no role > , Charles at
Sheppard, Edward Gray< no role > , Thomas Fryon Cotton< no role > , William
Coleman< no role > , Thomas Collins< no role > , John Spiller< no role > , Henry Holland< no role > ,
Nathaniel Conant< no role > , David Walker< no role > , Edward Montagu< no role > , Thomas
Cogan,< no role > Rupert Clarke< no role > , William Hyde< no role > , Rice Davies< no role > , John
Staples< no role > and William Addington< no role > Esquires Justices Etc

Whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth
Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second intituled "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 as the Justices in their discretion shall think sufficient to
answer all and every the ends and purposes mentioned in the said Act.
Now forasmuch as it appeareth unto this Court that more than three
fourths of the Money of the last Rate made in May 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 Town Parish and Place in the said County for
raising the Sum of Four Thousand Pounds which this Court.