County of Middlesex ss Be it Remembred, That this twenty
Seventh Day of March in the Fifth Year of the Reign of
Our Sovereign Lord King George the Second that now is, at Brentford
in the said County of Middlesex Matthew Terry< no role > Gent in His proper
Person as well for His said Majesty as for himself, exhibiteth to the
James Clitherow< no role > and John Sarver< no role > Esqrs
Two of His said Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County of
Middlesex , residing near to the Place where the Offence herein after
mentioned was Committed, a Complaint and Information; and
thereby Informeth Us That one Ralph Nicholls< no role > , for and During three
Months now last past and Longer, having been and continuing to be and
Yet being at Sunbury in the said County of Middlesex a Maltster and
Maker of Malt for Sale, he she said Ralph Nicholls in Order to the
defrauding of His said Majesty of and in His Dutys upon Malt, and for
preventing the Officers for the said Duty from taking and Keeping a true
Account of the born herein after mentioned, by him there Sleeped and
Making into Malt, at and in a Malt House in Sunbury aforesaid
belonging to and Used by him the said Ralph Nicholls; he the said
Ralph Nicholls within the said three Months now last past, that is
to Say on the Twenty First Day of February now last past at Sumbury
aforesaid in his said Malt House did mix & cause to be mixed two a more
Parcells of Corn there making into Malt, part thereof being of One soetting or
Steeping, and other part thereof being of another former wetting a Steeping;
the born So mixed amounting in the whole to One Hundred and Sixty
Bushels and also on the Twenty Fifth Day of February last at Sunbury
aforesaid in a Mult House then and there belonging to and used by him
he the said Ralph Nicholls did in like manner mix & cause to be
mixed two or more other Parcels of born there making into Malt, part
thereof being of one wetting or Steeping and part thereof being of another former
wetting or Steeping: the born So at this Time mixed amounting in the
whole Two Hundred and Forty Bushells in the whole and that the Same and
Geo Buckeh [..] each and every of them Respectively were them and there mixed So
and in Such manner that the Officer for the said Several and respective
Parcels of Corn were so mixed as aforesaid. before the same had been put
on the Kitn for drying; which is Contrary to the Form of the Statute
in such Case made and provided; whereby the said Ralph Nicholls
for every Bushel of the said Several and respective Parcels of Corn so
mixed as aforesaid hath Forfeited Five Shillings of lawfull money of
Great Britain, amounting in the whole to the Sum of One Hundred
pounds of like money; And thereupon the said Matthew Perry< no role >