London Gazette index entry detail

Publication details:

Publication date: 14 Mar 1746.

Issue: 8623.

Page: 4.

Parish:

Wadhurst.

Person details:

Name: Thomas Cheeseman.

Marital Status: Not given.

Occupation: Labourer.

Notes:

AT the Court of St. James’s, the 12th Day of March 1746 PRESENT, The King's most Excellent Majesty in his Privy Council, Whereas Thomas Cheeseman, commonly called and known by the Name of Butcher Tom, of Wadhurst in the County of Sussex, Labourer, was, upon the Eleventh Day of this Instant March, charged by Information of a credible Person upon Oath, by him subscribed before Thomas Burdus; Esq; one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, with having been guilty, upon the Seventeenth or Eighteenth Day of August last, of being, together with diverse other Persons, armed with Fire Arms, or other offensive Weapons, and so armed, being assembled in the Parish of Ringwould, in the County of Kent, upon the King's Highway there, near to a Place called Oxney, In the said Parish, in order to be aiding and assisting in the Running and Carrying away Uncustomed Goods, or Goods liable to the Payment of Duties, which have not been paid or secured ; which Information was afterwards certified by the said Thomas Burdus, under his Hand and Seal, to one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, who has laid the same before his Majesty in his Privy Council, pursuant to the late Act of Parliament of the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty in that Case made and provided ; his Majesty doth, by and with the Advice of his Privy Council, by this his Order in his Privy Council, require and command, that the said Thomas Cheeseman, commonly called and known by the Name of Butcher Tom, do surrender himself within the Space of Forty Days after the first Publication of this Order in the London Gazette, to the Lord Chief Justice, or one other of his Majesty's Justices of the Court of King's Bench, or to one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace. William Sharpe.

Batch:

GAZ_London-Gazette-01.csv.

Transcribed by:

Michael Metcalfe.

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