Middx ss:
Ad General Quarterial Session pacis Dui Regis tent P Com
Middx apnd Hickshall in St. John street in Com prd. P
adjorn die Martis scilt decimo nono die Januar
anno
regin Dui Georgij mmc Regis Magne Britannie Etc
sexto coram
Robto Thornhill< no role >
Martino Ryder< no role >
Josepho
offley< no role >
Robto Gay< no role >
Aris
& al socijs Sins Justic dci Dui
Regis ad pacem
in Com prd. conservand necnon ad
divers folow tusgrw & al malefacta in dodem Com
P Petrat audiend & terminand assign Etc
Upon reading the humble peticon of Samuel Hutton< no role >
John Hocker< no role >
William Collier< no role >
Richard Wall< no role >
& Henry
Quintam< no role >
Parishioners of the parish of St. James
Clerkenwell in Finsbury Division
in this County on behalfe of themselves
& divers other Inhabitants of the same parish
exhibited unto this Court setting forth that for the
yeare one thousand seven hundred & nineteen
William Cupon< no role >
Thomas Gibson< no role >
& Thomas shadd< no role >
were chosen & appointed surveyors of the highways
[..] in the sd. parish of St. James Clerkenwell
, And
that dureing the said yeare under pretence of a
Rate or warrant they have exacted from the Petrs. &
divers other Inhitants of the sd. parish severall large
sumes of money amounting to the sume of two
hundred & fifty pounds & upwards, whereas in
truth fifty pounds would have been more then
sufficient to have [..] defrayed the necessary
expences for repaireing the highways in the said
parish, the sd. Surveyors haveing compounded with
the Trustees of the Turupike of their grand Road for
five & twenty pounds, and for the residne it cannot in
all probability amount to five & twenty pounds more
And that the office of the sd. surveyors terminated at
Christmas last
, and the Justices of peace in that Division
have not though fit to pass the sd. Surveyors accompts or