To the MINISTER, CHURCH WARDENS, PARISH and PEACE
OFFICERS of the Parish of

GENTLEMEN,

HIS Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex , having received
from the Grand Jury at their last General Session of the Peace held at Clerken-
well , on Thursday May the 24th 1787 a Representation of divers Irregularities and
Enormities, which call for the active Extertions of the Magistrates and Parish
Officers, and a more vigorous Execution of the Laws; And it being their earnest
with that the good Purposes of the said Representation should be carried into Effect;
They have thought proper to transmit the same together with the very respectable
Names thereto subscribed, to the several Parishes in this County: And that the Laws
respecting the several Matters complained of may be generally known, they have sub-
joined Extracts from such of them as relate to the same, hoping that the Parish Officers
and principal Inhabitants will exert themselves to see that the said Laws be duly car-
ried into Execution in Matters of so much Consequence to the good Order as well
as to the Happiness of the People.

The Magistrates think it their Duty to recommend it to every Parish to pay a
particular Attention to that Part of the Representation which respects the Profa-
nation of the Lord's Day, the Disorders committed in Alehouses, and the great In-
crease in the number of Vagrants, as the most important and essential steps towards
putting a Stop to the Evils complained of.

SESSION-HOUSE,
For Middlesex ;
19th June, 1787.

I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient
Humble Servant,
HENRY COLLINGWOOD SELBY< no role > .
Clerk of the Peace for the County of Middlesex .

P. S. It is requested that a Vestry be called on the first Sunday or other Con-
venient Day after the receipt of this Letter, to consider what Steps are most proper
to be taken in the Business above-mentioned.