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At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden
in and for the County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall in saint John
Street by adjournment on Saturday the second day of June in the
twenty first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
King of Great Britain etc Before William Mainwaring< no role > Esquire
the Reverend Sir George Booth< no role > Baronet David Wilmot< no role > John
Sherwood< no role > Esquires 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 Richard Barrett< no role > of Ports mouth Street near Lincolns Inn Fields
Fruiterer and Green Grocer Hath at this present Session Exhibited his Petition
setting forth That in the month of October last the Petitioner was seised with an
Inflamation on his Lungs and was confined to his Room near three months under the
care of Dr Pitcairn his Physician and Mr Fowle his Apothecary both of whom
entertained but small hopes of his recovery That the Petitioner in consequence of a
Summons to him directed to shew cause why he should not be sworn one of the
Headboroughs for the Manor of Saint Giles with Bloomsbury for the year ensuing he
attended a Meeting at the Buffalo Tavern Bloomsbury and represented that the
present State of his health was such as rendered him incapable of performing the Duties
of that Office But it was insisted by some of the Officers then present that he should
either be sworn or pay the fine and he being totally unacquainted with matters of
this Nature and conceiving the Fine to be very considerable and his Circumstances
in adequate to the payment of it He was prevailed upon to take the Oath and was
Sworn accordingly That altho the Petitioner finds himself approaching to the
establishment of his health Yet he is far from being perfectly recovered and is
very apprehensive that the discharge of the Duties annexed to the Office of Head borough
will be more than he can perform and the Petitioner is advised by his Physician and
Apothecary that a Relapse of his disorder will be attended with very dangerous
Consequences to him That the Petitioner would most willingly Execute the Office of
Headborough in person if his health would permit and is ready to offer a proper
personto Execute the same as his Substitute and for the reasons above statedand
Submitted to the said Justices Consideration andpraying that he may be discharged