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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50624_geo649">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50624_geo650">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Wednesday the twenty eighth day of October 1772</p>
<p n="885">Whereas by virtue of a late Act of Parliament made in the fourth<lb></lb>
of the Reign of King Henry the eighth intituled An act made for Pewterers and<lb></lb>
Weights and Beams Power is given to his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50624_occ269">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
every Shire at the General Sessions holden at Michaelmas to assign and appoint<lb></lb>
two certain Persons having Experience therein to make Search after base or unlawful<lb></lb>
Pewter and Brass deceivable or false Beams and Weights of the Wares in the said<lb></lb>
Act in that respect specified occupied by the Persons in the aforesaid Act in that<lb></lb>
Behalf mentioned and other Offences against the the said Act of Parliament in every<lb></lb>
part of the Shire as well within the Franchise as without saving in<obscured></obscured>
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Boroughs where Searchers be appointed by the Heads and Governors of the same<lb></lb>
And Whereas of all such unlawful Pewter or Brass as the said Searchers<lb></lb>
find the one half is to be to the Use of our Sovereign Lord the King and the<obscured></obscured>
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half to the said Searchers by virtue of the said Statute And Whereas in the<lb></lb>
Default of the Masters and Wardens in the said Occupations not searching in<obscured></obscured>
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as is aforesaid and whereby that any such unlawful Metal is cast or made<obscured></obscured>
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unlawful Weights used it is by the said Act enacted that it shall be lawful for<lb></lb>
any Person or Persons having sufficient Cunning and Knowlege in the said or<lb></lb>
Occupations by Oversight of the Mayors Bailiffs and Head Officers of the<obscured></obscured>
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Cities and Boroughs to search all the said Places and to put the said<obscured></obscured>
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and Act in Execution in Form aforesaid And Whereas it appear<obscured></obscured>
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that one Person or Persons is of are at<obscured></obscured>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50624_geo651">county of Middlesex</rs>
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aforesaid<obscured></obscured>
reason of the<obscured></obscured>
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several Offences against the above in part recited Act may be undis<obscured></obscured>
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unpunished It is therefore Ordered by this Court here that John<obscured></obscured>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50624_geo652"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50624_geo653">Saint Catherines</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50624_geo654">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50624_occ270">Pewter</rs>
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and John<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50624_geo655">Goodmans Fields</rs>
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in the same County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50624_occ271">Pewterer</rs>
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(they having good Expert there<obscured></obscured>
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be and they are hereby nominated and appointed Searchers of Case of unlawful<obscured></obscured>
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and Brass and of deceivable or false Beams and Weights of the Wares in said<lb></lb>
in that respect specified occupied by the Persons in the aforesaid Act in the<obscured></obscured>
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mentioned within this County by virtue and in pursuance of the said Act with<obscured></obscured>
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Power and Authority to act and do all and every other Matters and Things as such<lb></lb>
Searchers as by the said Act is directed authorized or required to be done according<lb></lb>
to the true Intent and Meaning thereof</p>
<p n="886">By the Court<lb></lb>
Butler</p>
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