London Gazette index entry detail

Publication details:

Publication date: 29 Jun 1784.

Issue: 12556.

Page: 3.

Parish:

Worthing.

Person details:

Name: Richard Hodskinson.

Marital Status: Not given.

Occupation: Inn-Keeper.

Notes:

AT the Court at St. James's, the 18th of June, PRESENT, The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty in His Privy Council. WHEREAS Richard Hodskinson, of Worthing, in the County of Sussex, lnn-keeper, was, upon the Seventh Day of this Instant June, charged by Information of Three credible Persons, upon Oath by them subscribed, before John Aldridge, Esq; One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, with having been guilty, upon the Twenty-ninth Day of May now last past, of being, together with other Persons to the Number of Three and more, to wit, about One Hundred Men, most of whom were armed either with Fire Arms, or other offensive Weapons, that is to say, Carbines, or Blunderbusses, and large Bludgeons, and so armed being assembled on the Sea Shore, near Worthing aforesaid, and taking and rescuing a certain Quantity of Tea and Foreign Geneva, the same being uncustomed Goods, after Seizure thereof by one of the said Informants, being an Officer of Excise; and also of having actually given Orders to several of the said large Number of Men, to fire and kill the Informants; which Information was afterwards by the said John Aldridge, certified under his Hand and Seal, and returned 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 Act of Parliament of the Nineteenth Year of His late Majesty King George the Second; His Majesty doth, by and with the Advice of His Privy Council, require and command, that the said Richard Hodskinson do surrender himself, within 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. W. Fawkener.

Batch:

GAZ_London-Gazette-01.csv.

Transcribed by:

Michael Metcalfe.

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