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GEORGE I.
10th to 11th Year.
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7 JANUARY 1723-24.
(i January.)
7 January. For apprehending Thomas Miller and
William Hicks for counterfeiting coin. ;^5o reward
for each.
9 January. His Majesty's Speech at the opening of the
new session of Parliament.
9 January. His Majesty's Speech at the opening of the
new session of Parliament, reprinted in Dublin.
10 February. By the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His
Speech proroguing the Irish Parliament to the yth March.
24 February. For apprehending the persons who
between the 7th and 8th February, broke into the
Nottingham Town Clerk's office and set fire to documents
and papers, etc. ;^50 reward.
3 March. By the Lord Lieutettant of Ireland. The Irish
Parliament further prorogued from the 7th March to the
27th August.
4 March. By tJu Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Against
Tories, robbers, etc.
R.O., Dublin.
4 March. By the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. For
taking the several persons concerned in the murder of
Arthur Flanigan of Croghan, King's County ; and also
for apprehending the persons who broke open and robbed
the house of Michael Lacy of Ballinderry, co. Meath, and
proclaiming the several persons therein mentioned in
case they do not surrender themselves.
R.O., Dublin.
9 March. By the Privy Council. Requiring John
Berrisford and others for poaching, and wilfully shooting
at two keepers, to surrender themselves within forty
days.
1724.
(25 March.)
6 April. For apprehending the persons who on the
loth October last did enter Mr. Fuller's gardens at
Maidstone and cut or saw down all his fruit trees. ;;^5o
reward.
24 April. His Majesty's Speech proroguing Parliament
to the 4th June.
24 April. Directions to printers of Bibles and Prayer-
books, for remedying faulty printings and regulating the
prices. Requiring the price at which they are to sell to
the bookseller to be printed on the title page.
25 April. For apprehending the persons who knocked
Lancelot Jordan, Surveyor of Customs, off his horse
between Hendon and Shaftesbury on the nth March
past. ;^5o reward.
6 May. Touching the disposal of ecclesiastical prefer¬
ments to benefices in the gift of the Crown.
16 May. The King's Letter to the two Universities.
2 June. By the Privy Comicil. Parliament further
prorogued from the 4th June to the i6th July.
4 July. By the Privy Council. Parliament further
prorogued from the 16th July to the 27th August.
13 July. By the Lords fustices of Ireland. For dis¬
covering and apprehending the persons who maimed and
wounded William Degannon, weaver, of Dunyree, co.
Galway.
R.O., Dublin.
22 AUGUST 1724.
11th Year.
(i August.)
22 August. By the Privy Council. Parliament further
prorogued from the 27th August to the 24th September.
22 September. Parliament further prorogued from the
24th September to the 12th November, and then to
assemble.
B.M.
27 September. For apprehending the persons who set
fire to two barns at Hendon on the 29th August and the
ist September respectively. ;^ioo reward.
17 October. For discovering and punishing the persons
who aided eighteen convicts to escape from one of H.M.
sloops whilst being transported to America.
19 October. Republishing Proclamation of the i6th
May 1716, for the apprehension of William Mackintosh
and others.
20 October. By the Lords fustices of Ireland. For
discovering the author of a seditious pamphlet entitled
"A Letter to the whole people of Ireland" by M. B.
Drapier, author of " A Letter to the shopkeepers," etc.
R.O., Dublin.
12 November. His Majesty's Speech at the opening of
the new session of Parliment.
10 December. By the Privy Council. Requiring James,
alias Batt Heath, and four other labourers of Crondall to
surrender themselves within forty days, and answer the
charge of unlawfully hunting deer in Farnham Park.
11 December. For apprehending the persons who, on
the 29th November, destroyed fourscore trees between
Chelsea Road and Mr. Green's house.
29 December. By the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Against Tories, robbers, etc.
R.O., Dublin.
1724-25.
(i January.)
6 January. His Majesty's Letter to the Lord Mayor
of London touching relief of the poor.
6 January. His Majesty's Letter to the Bishop of
London touching relief of the poor.
7 January. By the Bishop of London. Directing collec¬
tions to be made for the poor.
8 January. Proclaiming pardon to — Marratt and
Silvester Lill, two escaped convicts, if they will give
evidence as to the persons who connived at their escape.
25 January. By the Lord Lieutenant of Irelaiid. For
apprehending the persons who set fire to a rape mill
belonging to John Harris.
R.O., Dublin.
3 February. By the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Against Tories, robbers, etc.
R.O., Dublin.
3 February. ;^i,ooo reward for the apprehension of
the persons who broke into His Majesty's Exchequer,
and stole therefrom a considerable sum of money.
12 March. By the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. For
discovering the persons who murdered Richard Hoare,
Esq., in Henry Street, Dublin.
B.M., R.O., Dublin.

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