MIDDLESEX

AT the General Quarter 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 (by adjournment) on Friday
the Tenth Day of July, in the Thirty-fifth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third, King of Great Britain;
Etc. before William Bleamire< no role > , Richard Ford< no role > ,
Rupert Clarke< no role > , William Hyde< no role > , Frederick Mathew< no role > ,
Edmund Pepys< no role > , Edward Foyster< no role > , Edward Read< no role > ,
Philip Neve< no role > , Nathaniel Conant< no role > , John Floud< no role > ,
Daniel Williams< no role > , Hammond Cross< no role > This name instance is in set 230. , Nicholas Bond< no role > ,
John Hole< no role > , John Bond< no role > , Jacob Leroux< no role > , Richard
Clark< no role > , and Patrick Colquhoun< no role > , Esqrs. 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.

A LETTER from his Grace the Duke of Portland, one of his
Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, was read, inclosing a Copy
of the following Engagement, entered into by several of the Lords
of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, in the following
Words:

"IN consideration of the present high Price of Wheat, and
in order to diminish the Consumption thereof in our respective
Families, so as to leave a large Supply of this necessary article of
Food for the People in general , until the Corn of the ensuing Har-
vest shall come into Consumption, and relieve them of their pre-
sent Difficulties; We, whose Names are hereunto subscribed, being
desirous of introducing into common use a wholesome Bread, at a
lower Price than must be paid for the fort of Bread now ordinarily
consumed, do engage that we will not ourselves consume, nor suffer
to be consumed in any of our Families, until the First Day of
October next, at any Place where the Sort of Bread undermen-
tioned can be procured, any Sort of Wheaten Bread finer than that,
which in an Act of Parliament passed in the Thirteenth Year of
his present Majesty's Reign, is called by the name of Standard
Wheaten Bread; which is directed by the said Act to be made of
the