Publication date: 14 Aug 1756.
Issue: 9609.
Page: 1.
Name: James Davis.
Marital Status: Not given.
Occupation: Husbandman.
AT the Court at Kensington, the 13th Day of August, 1756, PRESENT, The KING'S most Excellent Majesty in His Privy Council, WHEREAS James Zouch, otherwise Souch, of Poynings, in the County of Sussex, Miller ; Thomas Ticehurst, of Patcham in the said County, Taylor ; John Kenward, of Henfield in the said County, Yeoman ; Francis Ballard, commonly called or known by the Name of Old Tom, of Tarring-Nevil, in the said County, Farmer ; Richard Ballard, of Southease in the said County, Farmer ; Edward Saunders, of the fame Place, Labourer ; George Barnham, commonly called or known by the Name of Swash, of Brighthelmstone, in the said County, Victualler ; James Davis, of Patcham aforesaid, Husbandman; Samuel Grover, of the same Place, Husbandman ; William Chapman, of Poynings aforesaid, Miller, Richard Shirley, of the same Place, Labourer, both Servants to the said James Zouch, otherwise Souch; and William Gutteridge, commonly called or known by the Name of Gip, of Tarring-Nevil aforesaid, Labourer, Servant to the said Francis Ballard, were, upon the Fifteenth Day of July last, charged by Information of a credible Person, upon Oath, by him subscribed before Elfred Staples, Esquire, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Sussex, with having been guilty, on or about the Thirteenth Day of April, which was in the Year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and fifty five, together with diverse other Persons, one of them being armed with a Club or large Stick, and most of them with large loaded Whips, or other offensive Weapons, of being all assembled at a Place called Row-dean Gap, in the Parish of Rottingdean, in the said County of Sussex, in order to be aiding and assisting in the Running, Landing, and Carrying away uncustomed Goods, to wit, about Fifteen Hundred Weight of Tea, and of having by Force and Violence rescued and took away the said Goods, after they had been seized by the Custom House Officers — Which Information was afterwards certified by the said Elfred Staples, 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 James Zouch, otherwise Souch, Thomas Ticehurst, John Kenward, Francis Ballard, commonly called or known by the Name of Old Tom, Richard Ballard, Edward Saunders, George Barnham, commonly called or known by the Name of Swash, James Davis, Samuel Grover, William Chapman, Richard Shirley, and William Gutteridge, commonly called or known by the Name of Gip, and each of them 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 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.