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Image 523 of 61711th October 1775


WHEREAS John Mitchell< no role > formerly of Middlesex
Court Drury Lane in the Parish of Saint Martin in the
fields late of Little Russell Street in the Parish of Saint George
Bloomsbury both in the County of Middlesex Taylor a
Prisoner for Debt in His Majestys Person of the Fleet
within the City of London, was at the General Quarter Session of the
Peace of our Lord the King, holden for the City of London, at the
Guildhall within the same City,on Monday
theseventeenth Day of October last
discharged from his said Imprisonment, by Virtue of an Act of Parlia-
ment made in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty King
George the Third, intitled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, and
for the releaf of Bankrupts in Coroner Cases and
and then and there in open Court, pursuant to the Directions of the said
Act, subscribe and deliver in a Schedule of his Estate, real and personal.
And whereas, by Virtue of the said Act of Parliament all the Estate,
Right, Tittle, Interest and Trust of the said John Mitchell
of, in, and unto, all the real Estate, as well Freehold and Copy as
Customaryhold, and to all the personal Estate, Debts, and Effects of the
said John Mitchell was immediately after his Discharge
vested in the Clerk of the Peace of and for the said City of London. And
whereas His Majesty's Justices at the General QuarterSession of the Peace
of our Lord the King, holden for the City aforesaid, at the Guildhall within
the said City,on Monday the twenty fourth
Day of April last did, in Pursuance of the
said Act, order and direct the Clerk of the Peace of and for the said City,
to made an Assignment and Conveyance of the Estates and Effects of the
saidJohn Mitchell vested in the said Clerk of the
Peace, as aforesaid, to Benjamin Kennett< no role > of Essex Wharf in
the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex
Coal Merchant and Arney Smith< no role > of Drury Lane in the same
Parish Woolen Draper two
of the Creditors of the said John Mitchell Wherefore I
William Rix< no role > Clerk of the Peace of and for the said
City of London , Do hereby, according and in Obedience to the said
Order and Direction of the said Justices, assign and convey all the Estates
and Effects of the said John Mitchell so vested in me as
aforesaid, to the said Benjamin Kennett and Arney Smith

in Trust for the Benefit of themselves and the rest of the Creditors of
the said John Mitchell in Respect or in
Proportion to their respective Debts, according to the said Act. In Wit-
ness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, the Eleventh Day of
October in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Third , by the Grace of God King of Great-Britain, Etc.
and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy
Five

William Rix

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