I do hereby Signify to Whom it may concern
That I Hugn Duke and earl of
Northumberland Earl Percy< no role > Baron Warkworth
of Warkworth Castle in the County of Northumberland
Custos Rotulorum of the County of Middlesex Do
Approve of Thomas Sterling< no role > of the parish of Saint
Martin in the Fields in the County of Middlesex Gentleman
a person instructed in the Laws of this Realm and by me
admitted taken accepted and reputed sufficient and Alle in
that behalf to be lawful Clerk of the Arraignments
for the said County of Middlesex Given under my Hand
and Seal the Twenty fouth Day of April in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty one

Northumberland