Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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11th January 1722 - 16th January 1725

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Your Comittee on the whole State of the Case Submit
it as their Opinion that it is necessary for your Service that
the Office of House keeper and Cryer should either not be
Rented at all by any Tenant or Servant or if it be Rented
that it Should be on more moderate and easy Terms
than the Said Geary has rented it for Some Years past.
White it continues on the Same Foot your Entertainment
must be continually lessening or the Person that is to
furnish it must be ruined by your Service.

If the Court shall Order that no Tenant be allowed
and that the said Geary shall be discharged any farther
attendance, then your Comittee Submit it that he ought
to have an allowance for the Sum of £16. which he
expended in Coach hire and other Articles at his
Coming into the Service on account of Mrs. Seymore
which She admitts was expended & no consideration
whatsoever appearing for that expence unless it was
the hopes of continuing the first bargain which as
has been menconed was broke thro' the first Year your
Comittee Submit it that as being Money advanced
without consideration it ought to be repaid to the said
Geary.

The said Geary likewise Demands the Sum of £20 for Law
Charges on Account of Mr. Seymore Etc and offered to
make Oath that he had expended so much at least in
the said Service but he produced no particular Account
of the same your Comittee therefore Submit whether
any further Inquiry shall be made into that demand.

Mrs. Seymore has Since the perusing the Accounts above
menconed produced her Account of Licences delivered
by the Clerk of the Peace by which She charges 820
Licences more than Mr. Geary has accounted for which
at 1s. each amounts to £41.

Mrs. Seymore has likewise produced an account of
the Money received from the Office of Cryer of the Court
which she Charges to be £13.0s. more than the account
of the same delivered in by Mr. Geary does amount to.

Mr. Geary has not yet had time to inspect these
two Accounts to see whether they are just or not but
Supposing them to be true the whole Sum amounts to




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