Middlesex Be it Remembered that at the General Session of
the peace of our Lord the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex at the
Session House for the said County on Tuesday the Sixth day of May in the Twenty
Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain
& Before William Mainwaring< no role > , Jacob Leroux< no role > , William Gowan< no role > , Nathaniel
Conant< 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 Misdemeanors committed in the same County side this mark [mark] on the other side By the Oath of James Green< no role >
Joseph Hamlin< no role > , Thomas Burtonwood< no role > , George Evans< no role > , Benjamin Good< no role > , Aaron Brown< no role >
John Newman< no role > , Thomas Quarry< no role > Joseph Gazeley< no role > , Michael Le Felleor< no role > , George Vial< no role >
William Phillips< no role > , John Duthoit< no role > , Joseph Crook< no role > , Thomas Crook< no role > , Leonard Hebden< no role > , Richard
Vinson< no role > , John Barnard< no role > , John Chapman< no role > , Benjamin Evans< no role > , James Benson< no role > , Jacob Ruffy< no role >
and James Maze< no role > good and lawful Men of the County of Middlesex now here Sworn
and charged to Inquire for our Sovereign Lord the King for the Body of the said County,
It is presented in manner and form following (that is to say) Middlesex The Turors
for our Lord the King upon their Oath present that Josias Collier< no role > late of the parish of Saint
James Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex Yeoman on the Eight day of May in the
Twenty Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great.
Britain & with force and Arms at the parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and
upon one John Nellson Lavender< no role > an Infant of the Age of Two Years in the peace of God
and our said Lord the King then and there being unlawfully did make a violent assault [..]
him the said John Nellson Lavender then and there unlawfully violently and maliciously
did beat bruise wound and ill treat So that his Life was greatly despaired of and other wrings
to him the said John Nellson Lavender then and there unlawfully violently and maliciously,
did To the great damage of the said John Nellson Lavender and against the peace of on a
said Lord the King his brown and Dignity Wherefore the Sheriff of the said County
of Middlesex is commanded that he do not omit by reason of any Liberty in his Bailwick
but that he cause the said Josias Collier< no role > to come before the Justices of our said Lord the
King assigned in form aforesaid to answer to our said Lord the King of and concerning the
premises in the Indictment aforesaid abovespecified and thereupon at the same Session of
the peace holden her the County aforesaid at the [..] aforesaid at the said Tuesday [..]
May in the Tear aforesaid before the Justices of our said Lord the King abovenamed and
others their fellows Justices aforesaid cometh the said Josias Collier< no role > in his own proper
person and having heard the said Indictment read the said Josias Collier< no role > saith that he
is Not Guilty thereof and of this he pictteth himself upon the Country etc and Henry Collingwood
Selby< no role > Esquire Clerk of the peace of the County aforesaid who prosecuteth for our said Lord the
King in this behalf doth the like etc Therefore the Sheriff of the said County of Middlesex is
commanded that he do not omit by reason of any Liberty in his Bailiwick but that he said
to come before the Justices of our said Lord the King assigned in form aforesaid at the next
General