Middlesex

At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the
King holden in and for the County of Middlesex at
Hicks Hall in Saint John Street by adjournment on
Thursday the twentieth day of February in the seventeenth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
King of Great Britain Etc. Before Sir John Hawkins< no role >
Knight the Revered Sr George Booth< no role > Baronet Sir John
Chetwode< no role > Baronet William Kitchiner< no role > David Wilmot< no role >
John Spencer Colepeper< no role > John Sherwood< no role > William Blackman< no role >
William Blackborow< no role > Abraham Bailey< no role > Benjamin Robertson< no role >
Stephen Guion< no role > Thomas Bishop< no role > William Manwairing< no role >
Thomas Tryon Cotton< no role > Jasper Clarke< no role > Robert Butler< no role >
Edward Hodsell< no role > Thomas Cogan< no role > John Walford< no role > John Cox< no role >
Charles Mathews< no role > James Croft< no role > Thomas Preston< no role > John
Staples< no role > Jenkin Jones< no role > Jonathan Chadwick Durden< no role >
John Brettell< no role > Esquires the Reverend Richard Neate< no role > and
The Reverend Parker Rowlands< no role > Clerks Justices of our
said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in the
County aforesaid and also to hear and determine dives
felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanours committed
in the same County

Sir John Hawkins< no role > the Chairman having laid before the Court
the Report of Robert Taylor< no role > and Kenton Couse< no role > two emminent
Surveyors of the ruinous and unsafe state of the present Session
House called Hicks Hall and alsothea presentment of the Grand Jury
of the said County in respect to the hazardous situation of the said
Building.

It was Resolved unanimously

That It is not safe for his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the County of Middlesex to hold their Sessions of the Peace for the
said County in Hicks Hall aforesaid and that after the Termination
of the present Session the Sessions of the Peace for this County be
held at the Guildhall Westminster until further order and that the
Honourable the Judges now sitting at the Old Bailey be immediately
informed of the above Resolution of this Court