To the Constables Headboroughs and Beadles of Saint James
Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex

Middlesex
to wit}

By Virtue of my Office these are in his Majestys Name to charge and
command you that on sight hereof you Summon and Warn Twenty
four able and Sufficient Men of your Parish
personally to be and appear before me on Saturday the Seventeenth day of
December instant at Nineof the Clock in the forenoon
at the Lodge of the House of Correction
Clerkenwell Bridewell
Then and there to do and execute all such things as shall be given them
in Charge on behalf of our Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty touching
the Death of John Edwards< no role > and for your so
doing this Shall be your Warrant and that you also attend at the time
and place abovementioned to make a Return of the names of the
persons whom you shall have so Summoned and further to do and
execute such other matters as Shall be then and there enjoined
you And have you then and there this Warrant. Given under
my Hand and Seal this fifteenth day of December 1785 .

E: Umfreville [mark]
Corr.