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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
Missdx. Ss Ad General' Quarterial' Session' Pacis Domini Regis tent' pro Com. Middlesex' apud Hick'-s Hall in St John-Street, in Com. praedict. per. adjorn. Die Mercur. scilicet decimi terita Die Octobris, Anno Regni Domini Georgii nunc Regis Magnae Britanniae, &c dudecimo.
This Court being sensible that the Charge, Given by Sir Daniel Dolins, Kt. Chairman of this present Sessions, on Thursday last, being the first Day of this Sessions then begun and holden for this County at Westminster-Hall, to the Grand-Jury, and other Juries, then and there assembled, Is a Pious, Loyal, and Learned Charge, very much tending to promote a Dutiful Zeal and Affection for His Majesties Person, Royal Family, Administration, and Government: The Suppression of Vice, and all Kinds of Corruption; and well suited and fitted for the Encouragement, Encrease, and Propagation of Virtue; and a Faithful, Diligent Discharge of every Office and Trust: Doth Order, that the Thanks of this Court be, and they are thereby Given to the said Sir Daniel Dolins for His said Charge; And this Court doth Desire, that for the Benefit of the Publick, the said Sir Daniel Dolins will be pleased to Cause his said Charge to be printed.
page 192 note 1 Mr. Abney: probably Thomas Abney, later Sir Thomas, a baron of the Exchequer 1740, a Justice of the Common Pleas, 1743. Died of the gaol-fever at the Black Sessions of May 1750 at the Old Bailey. He may have been Chairman of the Bench until 1725.
page 194 note 1 The notes given in the margin in the text are quoted here between [].
page 194 note 2 When the king was away in Hanover.
page 197 note 1 Friedrich Wilhelm I, who married Sophia Dorothea in Berlin, Nov. 1706.
page 198 note 1 This recalls the letter of invitation sent to William of Orange by the Immortal Seven.
page 203 note 1 What was true when this was written, was no longer valid years later: see f. ex. the case of Dr. Dodd, one of George III's own chaplains who was hanged for forging a bill of exchange in the name of Lord Chesterfield, 1777.
page 204 note 1 Note the interesting early use of the expression “his prime ministers’”, even if it is in the plural.
page 208 note 1 Note that JPs are already complaining of gin.
page 208 note 2 This is a moral condemnation of prostitution, but one may note a total absence of reflection on the origins and reasons for the continuation of this activity.