Town Court House near Westmr. Hall in and for the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westmr. the City Borough and Town of
Westmr. in the County of Middx and Saint Martin Le Grand London on Wednesday
the Eighteenth Day of April in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign
Lord George the Second King of Great Britain etc before Henry Fielding< no role > Martin
Clare Thomas Lediard George Payne< no role > Esquires and others their Fellows Justices of our
said Lord the King Assigned to keep the peace in the said Liberty and also to hear
and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed within the
said Liberty Come the said James Joes< no role > Preston Powell< no role > John Bone< no role > Ratcliff Littler< no role >
and Thomas Weston< no role > in their Own persons and having heard the said Indictment
read the said James Joes< no role > Preston Powell< no role > John Bone< no role > Ratcliff Littler< no role > and Thomas
Weston Severally say that they are not guilty thereof and her upon they
severally put themselves upon the County and Peter Forbes< no role > Esquire Clerk of the
Peace of the Liberty aforesaid who prosecuted for our said Lord the King in this
Behalf doth the like etc therefore by the Consent of the said James Joes Preston
Powell John Bone< no role > Rattcliff Littler and Thomas Weston< no role > lot a Jury thereupon (for
the Trial of the Issue aforesaid between our said Lord the King and the said James
Joes Preston< no role > Powell John Bone< no role > Ratcliff Littler< no role > and Thomas Weston< no role > so as aforesaid
Joined) imediately come before the Justices of our said Lord the King last above
named by whom the Truth of the matter will be the better known and who have
no affinity to the said James Joes< no role > Preston Powell< no role > John Bone< no role > Ratcliff Littler< no role > and
Thomas Weston< no role > to recognize upon their Oath whether the said James Joes< no role >
Preston Powell< no role > John Bone< no role > Ratcliff Littler< no role > and Thomas Weston< no role > be guilty of
the Premisses in the Indictment aforesaid above specifed or not because as
well the said Peter Forbes< no role > who prosecuted for our said Lord the King in this
Behalf as the said James Joes< no role > Preston Powell< no role > John Bone< no role > Ratcliff Littler< no role > and
Thomas Weston< no role > have put themselves upon that Jury and the Jurors of the
Jury aforesaid by Peter Leigh< no role > Esquire Bailiff of the Liberty aforesaid in the
County aforesaid for this purpose impaunelled and returned to Wit Thomas< no role >
Cosby Edward Stain George Derby< no role > Shire Peter Crosby< no role > William Litchfield< no role > Hempstead
Hyatt Edward Griffith< no role > Edward Davis< no role > William Griffith< no role > John Warrer< no role > Thomas Shirley< no role >
are Philip Seal< no role > being called come who being chosen tryed and sworn to speak the
Truth of and upon the premisses aforesaid in the Indictment aforesaid above
specified do say upon their Oath that the said James Joes< no role > Preston Powell< no role >
John Bone< no role > and Ratcliff Littler< no role > are not nor either of them is guilty of the
premisses aforesaid in the Indictment aforesaid above specified in Manner
and Town as the said James Ives< no role > Preston Powell< no role > John Bone< no role > and Ratcliff Littler< no role >
for themselves above by their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Weston< no role > is
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Weston< no role > is
Guilty of the Trespasses and Offence aforesaid in the Indictment Aforesaid
above specified in Manner and Town as by the said Indictment above against
him is supposed whereupon all and singular the premisses being against
and understood by the Court here His considered by the Court here that the
said Thomas Weston< no role > pay to our said Lord the King One Shilling for his Five
by