Manuscript document recording details of the fees to be paid to Clerks of the Court for their various duties.

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[Legal Fees; Clerks of the Court]
Manuscript document recording details of the fees to be paid to Clerks
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Staffordshire, 7 October 1729
£280.00
SKU: 9921

C.32 x 41cm, part Latin, mainly English, closed tear and minor loss on fold marks. Presumably one of the copies ordered to be delivered to the High Constable and other JPs. The first few Latin lines give occasion (Quarter Sessions), place, date, and names of officers of the Court (Justices of the Peace presumably), including John Wedgwood, of the Pottery Family, Francis Elde (Stafford M.P.), and Joseph Girdler, MP in the First British Parliament. Text: This Court having taken into Consideration the fees take and Claimed by the Clerks to his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in this County for Warrants Recognizances Discharges Orders of Removall and other business . . .[fees set in following table], copies to be distributed (as this presumably) to the respective High Constable and to Justices of the Peace in their Hundreds. Fees include: For every licence for keeping an Alehouse ...[£]0.2.6; For every speciall warr[an]t . . .; For every recognizance of the peace or Good Behaviour or Bail . . .; For giving the High Constable his Oath . . .; For every hue and cry . . .; For every Certificate for Burying in Woollen and Oath . . .; etc.etc