Middlesex

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sove-
reign Lord the King, holden for the County of Middlesex at
Hicks Hall in St. John Street in the County aforesaid by adjournment


on Tuesday daythe Eighth Day of July
1755 in the Twenty Ninth Year of the Reign of
King George the Second, by the Grace of God, over
Great Britain, Etc.

WHEREAS the Goaler or Keeper of his Majesty's Prison of Newgate
hath, by Virtue
of a Warrant under the Hand and Seal of One of his Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the Same County duly issued in that Behalf, on the Petition
of Mary Garnes< no role > Widow a Prisoner in the Custody of the said
Goaler or Keeper, brought before the Justices here present, the Body of the said Prisoner,
with the Warrant of her Detainer, together with a Copy of the Causes wherewith she
Stands charged in his Custody, in order that she may have the benefit of the Act of
Parliament, made in the Twenty-eighth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, Intituled,
An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, and be discharged according to the said Act.
And Whereas it Sufficiently appears to this Court, by the List of the said Goaler or Keeper,
(by him delivered in, Subscribed, and Sworn to, according to the Directions of the said Act,
purporting to be a List of all the Prisoners inhis actual Custoday, upon the first Day of Ja-
nuary, 1755, upon Process for Debt, Damages, Costs, Sum or Sums of Money, and of
the time when such Prisoners were charged in Custody and received in Prison, together
with the Names of the Prisons at whose Suit such Prisoners were detained;) and also by such
Copy of Causes, That the said Mary Garnes< no role > on the said first Day
January, 1755 was really a Prisoner, in the actual Custody of the said Goaler or Keeper
of the said Prison, at the Suit of Mathew Roe< no role > Gentlemen and brough in by Charles
lawne the Twenty first Day of October in the Year of our Lord 1754 by Virtue of a Bill
of Middlesex returnable before the Lord the King at Westminster in Wednesday next
after the Morrow of all Seals to Answer to Matthew Roe< no role > Gentleman of 4 plea of
Trespass And also to his Bill against the said Mary for Twenty four pounds upon Pro [..]
according Etc to be Exhibited by Oath for £12:1:0 Mathew Roe< no role > in person

And it appearing also unto this Court, that she hath so continued a Prisoner ever Since, and
that she hath Caused such Publick Notice to be inserted in three Several London Gazettes,
now here produced before this Court, of her Intention to take the Benefit of the said
Act, as the said Act in that behalf requires; and the said Prisoner having also, in open
Court, here, according to the Directions of the said Act, subscribed and delivered in a
Schedule of her whole Estate, real and personal, and of the Names of her Debtors,
and of the Several Sums of Money from them respectively secured, or owing, upon andy Spe-
cialty, Contract, or other Account whatsoever, and the Names and Places of Abode of the
Several Persons from whom such Debts are due and owing, and of the Witnesses who can
prove such Debts or Contracts, and having taken the Oath, in the said Statute directed in
that Behalf, and having also in all respects conformed to the said Statute, and such Oath
not being in any wife disproved, and no Person whatsoever appearing before this Court to
shew any sufficient Cause why she should not be discharged from her Imprisonment, ac-
cording to the said Act, (altho' public Proclamation hath been made for that Purpose.)
This Court therefore being fully Satified in the Premisses, Doth according to, and in pur-
suance, of the said Act, Order and command the said Goaler or Keeper of the said Prison,
forthwith to set at Liberty the said Prisoner, without having, or taking any Fee or Reward,
other than One Shilling for his Attendance now here with her as by the said Act is
appointed

By the Court,