Middlesex

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the
King holden in and for the County of Middlesex at the Guildhe [..]
in King street Westminster by adjournment on Thursday the
third day of July in the seventeenth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc Before
Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knight the Reverend Sir George Booth< no role > Bar .
Sir John Chetwode< no role > Barnet John Spencer Colepeper< no role > Esquire
and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned
to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and
determine divers felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanours
committed in the same County

Whereas Abraham Heywood< no role > of the parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
Weaver Did at the last General Session of the Peace Exhibit his Petition and
Appeal setting forth That on the eleventh day of April last the Petitioner was
convicted before John Staples< no role > Esquire one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the said County of Middlesex of buying and receiving five ounces of wrought
Silk (knowing the same to be purlained or Embezzled) the property of William
Hopkins< no role > of Lemon Street in the parish of Saint Mary Whitechapel in the
said County Silk Throwster and by him delivered to be manufactured
That previous to the said conviction of the Petitioner one Elizh. Pidgion who was
employed by the said William Hopkins< no role > as a winster was convicted before the
County of Middlesex of Embezzling Silk entrusted to her to be manufactured the
property of the said William Hopkins< no role > and thereupon the said Elizabeth
Pidgeon made satisfication to the said William Hopkins< no role > by paying to him the Sum
of six pounds and six Shillings being the Value of the Silk the said William
Hopkins< no role > alledged she had Embezzled of his property whereby the said Elizabeth
Pidgion< no role > compounded the said Offence with the said William Hopkins< no role > and the
said Elizabeth Pidgion was thereupon forthwith discharged from the said Conviction
and that without receiving any Corporal Punishment as by the Statute in such
case made and provided is required to be Inflicted on persons Guilty of embezzling
Silk entrusted to them to be manufactured That the said William Hopkins< no role >
shortly afterwards procured the said Elizabeth Pidgion to lay Information
against one William Nicholls< no role > a Coal Heaver & one Elizabeth Hilliard< no role > no ways
entrusted or employed in any of the Silk Manufactories of having bought