Middlesex

I do hereby Certify That 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 on Monday the seventeenth
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 John Cox< no role > David Walker< no role > David Wilmot< no role >
Esquires and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the
King assigned to keep the Peace in the county aforesaid and also
to hear and determine divers felonies Tresposses and other
misdemeanours committed in the same County William
Morgan< no role > Caleb Gidney< no role > were severally convicted of Petit Larceny and
James Vincent< no role > otherwise Rogers< no role > of a certain fraud for which they were
liable by Law to a sentence of Transportation to any of his Majesty's
Colonies or Plantations in America and were then and there by
the Court respectively ordered and adjudged to be kept to hard
Labour vizt William Morgan< no role > Caleb Gidney< no role > for the term of five
years and James Vincent< no role > otherwise Rogers for the term of three
years in the raising Sand Soil and Gravel from and cleansing
the river Thames or any other Service for the benefit of the
navigation of the said river under the management and
direction of the Overseers appointed pursuant to the Statute in
such case made and provided And I do further Certify that
it appears to me that Thomas Butler< no role > Esquire - Clerk of the Peace
for the said County hath been usually paid the sum of Six
Shillings and two pence for every Offender convicted and ordered
to be Transported for any of the above Offences Dated the 1st day
of March 1777.

John Hawkins< no role >