A Warrant by order of Quarter-Sessions to set Watch and Ward.
K. ss. WHereas there hath been of late several Robberies, Felonies, and Burglaries committed within this County, it was ordered at the last general Quarter-Sessions
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K. ss. WHereas there hath been of late several Robberies, Felonies, and Burglaries committed within this County, it was ordered at the last general Quarter-Sessions
of the Peace holden for the said County at M. That for the prevention thereof for the future, you do from henceforth cause Watching and Warding to be continued, duly set, and kept in all and every usual place and places within your Hundred, by honest and able men within your several Precincts and Di∣visions, and that you do therein apprehend all and every suspicious person and persons, and bring them before us, or some or one of us, or some other of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace of, &c. within the said County, to the end he, she, or they may be examined, as also proceeded against according to the Law. And you are further required to give in to us, or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County, weekly an Account of your Service. And hereof you nor any of you are to fail, as you will answer the contrary at your perils. Given, &c.