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London, England, 1831-12-05 00:00:00

SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.

(From the Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday,
dated Saturday, Dee. 3,)
CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 3.
His Majesty has been pleased to command the issuing of
the following commissions
William IV., by the Grace of God, of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, to our well-beloved and faithful Councillor Henry
Lord Brougham and Vaux, Chancellor of that part of
our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
Great Britain ; our most dear Cousin and Councillor
Henry Marquis of Lansdowne, President of our Council ;
our well-beloved and faithful Councillor John George
Lord Durham, Keeper of our Privy Seal ; our most
dear Cousin Charles Duke of Beaufort ; our most dear
Cousins and Councillors William Spencer Duke of

Devonshire, A Richard Colley Marquis Wellesley ; our
well-beloved and faithful Councillor Sir Nicholas Co-
nyngham Tindal, Knight, Chief Justice of our Court of
Common Pleas ; our beloved and faithful Sir John Ber-
nard Bosanquet, Knight, one of the Justices of our Court
of Common Pleas ; Sir William Elias Taunton, Knight,
one of the Justices assigned to hold Pleas before us; Sir
Thomas Denman, Knight, our Attorney-General ; Thos.
Wilde, one of our Serjeants at Law ; John Gurney, Esq.,
one of our Counsel learned in the Law ; arid William
Selwyn, Esq., one other of our Counsel learned in the
Law; greeting : know ye, that we have assigned you, and
any two of )ou, of whom one of you, the said Sir Nicolas
Conyngham Tindal, Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir
William Elias Taunton, Sir Thomas Denman, Thomas
Wilde, John Gurney, and William Selwyn, we will shall
be one, our Justices to inquire more fully the truth, by
the oath of good and lawful men of our county of the city
of Bristol, and by other ways, means, and methods by
which you shun or may better know (as well within
liberties as without) by whom the truth of the matter
may be the better known and inquired into, of all treasons,
misprisions of treason, insurrections, rebellions, counter-
feitings, clippings, washings, fil•e coinings, and other fat.
sities of the money of Great Britain and other our king-
doms or dominions whatsoever, and of all murthers, felo-
nies, manslaughters, killings, burglaries, rapes of women,
unlawful meetings and conventicles, unlawful uttering of
words, assemblies, misprisions, conspiracies, false allega-
tions, trespasses, riots, routs, retentions, escapes, con-
tempts, falsities, negligencies, concealments, maintenances,
oppressions, champarties, deceits, and all other evil doings,
offences, and injuries whatsoever, and also the accessories
of them, within the county of the city aforesaid (as well
within liberties as without), by whomsoever, and in what
manner soever, done, committed, or perpetrated, and by
whom, or to whom, when, how, and after what manner,
and of all other articles and circumstances concerning the
premises, and every of them, or any of them, in any man-
ner whatsoever, and the said treasons, and other the pre-
mises, according to the laws and customs of England, for
this time to bear and determine :
And, therefore, we command you, that, at a certain day
and place, or at certain days and places, which you, or any
two of you (of whom one of you the said Sir Nicolas
Conyngham Tindal, Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Wil-
liam Elias Taunton, Sir Thomas Denman, Thomas Wilde,
John Gurney, and William Selwyn, we will shall be one)
shall appoint for this purpose, you make diligent inquiries
about the premises, and hear and determine all the singular
the premises, and do and fulfil them in the aforesaid form,
doing therein what to justice does appertain according to
the laws and customs of England, saving to us the amer-
ciaments and other things from thence to us accruing : and
we command, by the tenour of these presents, our Sheriffs
of our county of the city aforesaid, that at such day and
place, or days and places, which you, or two of you (of
whom one of you the said Sir Nicolas Conyngham 'Tindal,
Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir William Elias Taunton,
Sir Thomas Denman, Thomas Wilde, John Gurney, and
William Selwyn, we will shall be one), shall make known
to them, they cause to come before you, or two of you (of
whom one of you the said Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal,
Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir William Elias Taunton,
Sir Thomas Denman, Thomas Wilde, John Gurney, and
William Selwyn, we will shall be one), es many and such
good and lawful men of their bailiwick (as well within
liberties as without), by whom the truth of the premises
may be better known and inquired into.
In witness whereof, we have caused these our letters
to be made patent. Witness ourself at Westminster, the
3d day of December, in the second year our reign.
BATHURST.

William IV., by the Grace of God, of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, to our well-beloved and faithful Councillor Henry
Lord Brougham and Faux, Chancellor of thP.:, part of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, called
Great Britain ; our most dear Cousin and Councillor
Henry Marquis of Lansdowne, President of our Council ;
our well-beloved and faithful Councillor John George Lord
Durham, Keeper of ow: Privy Seal ; our most dear Cousin
Charles Duke of Beaufort ; our most dear Cousins and
' Councillors \i'illiarn Spencer Duke ofDevonshire, Richard
Colley Marquis Wellesley ; our well-beloved and faithful
Councillor Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Knight, Chief
Justice of our Court of Common Pleas ; our beloved and
faithful Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Knight, one of the
Justices of our Court of Common Pleas; Sir William
Elias Taunton, Knight, one of the Justices assigned to
hold pleas beforo us ; Sir Thomas Denman, Knight, our
Attorney-General; Thomas Wilde, one of oar Serjeants
at Law; John Gurney, Esq., one of our Counsel learned
in the Law ; and William Selwyn, E•q., one other of our
Counsel learned in the Law ; greeting : know ye, that we
have constituted you, and any two or more of you (of
whom one of you, the said Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal,
Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir William Elias Taunton,
Sir Thomas Denman, Thomas Wilde, John Gurney, and
William Selwyn, we will shall be one), our Justices to de-
liver our gaol of our county of the city of Bristol, of the
prisoners therein being and detained, or who shall be therein
detained, before the 19th day of December inst. :
And therefore we command you, that at a certain day
or at certain days, which you, or any two or more of you
(of whom one of you the said Sir Nicolas Conyngham
Tindal, Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir William Elias
Taunton, Sir Thomas Denman, Thomas Wilde, John
Gurney, and William Selwyn, we will shall be one), shall
appoint for this purpose, you meet at the said city of
Bristol, to deliver that gaol, doing therein what to justice
appertains, according to the laws and customs of England,
saving to us the amerciatnents and other things to us from
thence seeming :
And we command, by the tenour of these presents, our
Sheriffs of our county of the city aforesaid, that, at a
certain day or at certain days, which you, or any two
or more of you (of whom one of you the said 'Sir
Nicolas Conynghani Tindal, Sir John Bernard 890411-