P Adiorn Sabli xxv o. die Febry 1715 .

This Court being informed that several Petty Sessions are held for Brentford
Division and other Divisions in this County when the General or Quarter Sessions
of the Peace are held for the said County And also at such places where Petty
Sessions have not been usually held And that several Petty Sessions have been
held within one Division at different places and at one and the same time
And that by means of holding Petty Sessions as aforesaid Churchwardens
Overseers of the Poor Constables and other Parish Officers are lyable to be
Summoned to give their Attendance at such Petty Sessions during the continuance
of the General or Quater Sessions of the Peace for this County whereby they may
be delayed and retarded from Prosecuting and transacting such Prosecutions
matters and things as they have occasion and are by the duty of their respective
Offices obliged to Prosecute and Transact at such General or Quarter Sessions
And that Churchwardens Overseers of the Poor Constables and other Parish
Officers may by means of holding several Petty Sessions within one Division
at different places and at one time as aforesaid be required to Appear at several
places at one and the same time which would occassion them very great Trouble
and expence This Court upon Consideration had of the Premises doth declare
that it is their Opinion that the holding any Petty Sessions for any Division
in this County during such time as the General or Quarter Sessions of the
Peace are holden for the said County is illegal and contrary to Law, and that
the Petty Sessions for every respective Division in this County ought to be held
at the known and usual place where Petty Sessions have been usually held
for such Division And that the requiring the said Officers Attendance at
several places at one and the same time would be a great grievance And
this Court doth therefore recommend it to all the Justices of the Peace of this
County as the Opinion of this Court that they do not for the time to come
during any General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this
County hold any Petty Sessions for any Division within the said County
And that they do within their respective Division in this County hold their
Petty Sessions at the known and usual place within each Division where
the Petty Sessions have been accustomed to be held and that they do not hold
several Petty Sessions at different places at one time for any Division in this
County to the end Parish Officers within any such Division may not be
required to give their Attendance at several places at one & the same time