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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50394_geo313">Town of Shrewsbury</rs>
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in the County of Salop<hi rend="braceResult"> to wit)</hi>
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<p n="318">At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord the King held in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50394_geo314">Guildhall</rs>
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of the Town of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50394_geo315">Shrewsbury</rs>
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in and for the said Town and Libertieson Friday<lb></lb>
(to wit) the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50394_date62">Seventh Day of April in the Twenty second Year<lb></lb>
of the Regin of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by th<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Grace of God King of Great Britain and so forth and in th<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Year of our Lord 1749</rs>
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. Before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50394_n318-1">William Ackis</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50394_occ123">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50394_n318-2">James Downes</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50394_occ124">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50394_occ125">Steward</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50394_n318-21">Henry Jenks</rs>
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and Jo<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50394_occ126">Esquires</rs>
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his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50394_occ127">Justices</rs>
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Assigned to keep the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
in the said Town and Liberties Trespasses and other Mis<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
in the said Town and Liberties done and committed and<lb></lb>
which are there to be heard and determined</p>
<p n="319"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">ll<lb></lb>
112 to the ll</note>
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<p n="320">By Virtue of the Act of Parliament made in the third and fourth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of the late Sovereign Lord and Lady King William<lb></lb>
and Queen Mary Intituled An Act for the better repairing and damending<lb></lb>
the Highways and far settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods, his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace Assembled at this Sessions in<lb></lb>
Pursuance of the Power given them by the said Act have asses<obscured></obscured>
and<lb></lb>
rated the Price of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever to be brought<lb></lb>
into this Town by any common Waggoner or Carrier at the Rates or<lb></lb>
Prices following (to wit) the Carriage of every one Hundred Weight of<lb></lb>
Goods (except money Place or Jewells) That shall be carried from<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50394_geo316">London</rs>
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to this Town not to exceed the Rate of Six Shillings and Six<lb></lb>
Peace and so in Proportion far a greater or lesser Quantity above<lb></lb>
twelve Pounds Weight And under twenty Pounds Weight one Shilling<lb></lb>
and no more And it is Ordered by this Court That there Rates be sent<lb></lb>
to the several Common Waggoners or Carriers carrying Goods from<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50394_geo317">London</rs>
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to this Town and also be hung up in some Publick Place w<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
this Town to which all Persons may resart far their Informa<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
And that the common Waggoners and Carriers may not be ig<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of the Law They are to take notice That none of them are to tak<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the Carriage of such Goods and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50394_occ128">Merchandizes</rs>
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above the Rates and<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Prices hereby set upon Pain to for fiet far every such Offence the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Sum of five Pounds to be levied as the Said Act directs to the Use of<lb></lb>
the party grieved.</p>
<p n="321">By the Court<lb></lb>
Edwardrs<lb></lb>
Town clerk.</p>
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