Publication date: 29 Sep 1747.
Issue: 8680.
Page: 2.
Name: Robert Maplestone.
Marital Status: Not given.
Occupation: Labourer.
At the Court at Kensington, the 2nd Day of October, 1747, PRESENT, His most Excellent Majesty in his Privy Council. WHEREAS Robert Mapesden, otherwise Maplesden, otherwise Mapestone, otherwise Maplestone, of Bexhiil in the County of Sussex, Labourer; Thomas Fuller, of Hawkhurst aforesaid, in the said County of Kent, Labourer ; Daniel Bunce, commonly called or known by the Name of Great Daniel, of or near Sittingbourn in the said County of Kent, Labourer; and Robert Bunce, commonly Called or known by the Name of Half Coat Robin, of or near Sittingbourn aforesaid, in the said County of Kent, Labourer; were, upon the Eleventh Day of September last, charged by Information of a credible Person upon Oath, by him subscribed before Thomas Burdus, Esquire, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, with having been guilty, upon the Eleventh Day of February last, of being, together with divers other Persons, armed With Fire Arms, or other, offensive Weapons, and so armed being assembled at a Place called Folkstone Warren, in the Parish of Folkstone in the said County of Kent, in order to be aiding and assisting in the Running, Landing and Carrying away uncustomed Goods: 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 Cafe 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 Robert Mapesden, otherwise Maplesden, otherwise Mapestone, otherwise Maplestone, Thomas Fuller, Daniel Bunce, commonly called or known by the Name of Great Daniel, and Robert Bunce, commonly called or known by the Name of Half Coat Robin, do surrender himself and themselves within the space of Forty Days after the first Publication of this Order in the London Gazette, to the Lord Chief Justice, or one 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.