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

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County and maintaining himself on those Occasions,
for delivering the Licences in all Parts of the County
after they come from the Clerk of the Peace, and
for his attendance in keeping the House and Goods
in Order, for all which Services the said Geary hath
charged nothing in his Accompt laid before the said
Comittee, tho' he appears to have performed the
same for Six Years last past, But the said Comittee
further take Notice that Mrs. Seymour Since the
peruseing the said Accompts hath charged the said
Geary with the Sumes of Forty one pounds and
thirteen pounds in two other Accompts by her
produced which the said Geary hath not had time
to inspect to see whether they are just or not, But
Supposeing them to be true the whole Sume
amounts to fifty four pounds, which will for the
Six Years he hath Served come to Nine pounds
per Annum, and the Same being added to the
said Thirty Seven pounds six Shillings and
eight pence will make the Annual Sume he
hath received for his Services amount to
Forty Six pounds Six Shillings and eight pence
And the Said Comittee Submitt it as their
Opinion that it is necessary for the Service
of the Court that the Office of Housekeeper and
Cryer should either not be Rented at all by any
Tennant or Servant, Or if it be Rented that it
should be on more moderate and easy Terms
than the said Geary hath Rented it for Some
Years past, And that while it continues on the Same
foot the Justices entertainment must be continually
lessening or the Person that is to furnish it
must be ruined by the Service,

This Court upon consideration had of the Premisses,
and upon Debate of the matter Is of Opinion that
the first and other Agreements above mentioned




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