Middlesex Sessions:
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1791

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Middlesex
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To the High Constables , Petty Constables , Head-
boroughs , and other Peace-Officers in the
in the County of
Middlesex , and to all others whom it may
concern.

THESE are, in his Majesty's Name, to will and require
you, in the Night after the Receipt hereof, to make a
general privy Search through out your several and respective
Limits (assisted with sufficient men of the same Place) for the
finding and apprehending of Rogues and Vagabonds, and idle and
disorderly Persons. AND MORE OVER, in pursuance of
his Majesty's Command, signified by an Order of Council of the
Eight Day of April, 1791, directed to his Majesty's Justices of
the Peace for the County of Middlesex , and the City and Liberty
of Westminster , setting forth, That his Majesty's Service doth
at this Time require a speedy supply of Seamen and Seafaring
Men , to Man his majesty's Fleet, which is now sitting out:
You are hereby strictly enjoined to be particularly attentive in
such Search, to take up all straggling Seamen who are fit to serve
on Board his Majesty's Ships. All and such Persons as you shall
so find and take up, you are, onthe
Day ofatof the Clock in the
noon, to bring before us, and other our Fellow Justices, at
to be respectively dealt with according to Law,
and according to the Directions contained in the said Order
of Council; Given under our Hands and Seals, at
thisDay of
One thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety One.




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