Hayes 15 March
1793

Dear Sir
I Flatter myself you with excuses
the truth I now give you, & not think the
request I am about to make in the name
of myself & the other deputy Lieut acting
for the Hundred of Elthorne unresonable.

Mr. Howard High Constable of that hundred.
and Mr. Collins Constable of New Brentford &
Wm. Haynes< no role > Constable of Harmondsworth have
acquainted us, that they have recd notice from
the Clerk of the Peace that they have been fined
for non attendance on Monday last at the
Sessions House in Clerkenwell ,& have reques-
ted a Letter from us stating the reason of
their absence from what we allow to be their
first duty & desiring from the special circum-
stance of the Case that you with base good
as to remit the Fines.

The present circumstances of the times, you
must allow, makes it necessary to use our
utmost exertions to fill up the Militia Regie-
-ments, for which reason we have ment weekly
for some months, for that purpose, & not
recollecting that last week was Sessions week,
we adjourned as usual to last monday, &
particularly requested their attendence as
without their presence to prove the delivering of
the Summons to some shifters, who have left