Tenbury; the house of Mrs. Collins, Shelsley; and the Sun, Upton. By the statute 9th George I, chap. 24, all persons who were Papists, and all persons who had not taken the oath for securing the throne to the House of Hanover, were to do so before the 25th of December, 1723, in one of the courts at Westminster or at the Quarter Sessions. This was no doubt the cause of the adjournments of the Quarter Sessions in that year. In modern times it often occurs that the Quarter Sessions are adjourned to different places in the county for the convenience of newly-appointed magistrates being sworn into office. In the year 1809, Sir Harry Lippincott, Bart., was appointed a magistrate for Gloucestershire, and he was sworn into office at an adjournment of the Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions--the Sessions being adjourned to the White Lion, the principal inn at Berkeley (now the Berkeley Arms), the late Earl of Berkeley taking the chair, and administering the oaths to the hon. bart. In 1697, Lancelott Jewkes, the Worcester county gaoler, was fined £20 "for not attending this court to do his duty, the court having had several occasions for him." It was ordered in 1716, "that the Sheriff for the future do not return any freeholders within the burrough of Bewdley to serve on jurys for the County Sessions, they having Sessions of their own." Another order was made in 1723, "that there be an advertisement in the Worcester newspaper, to give notice to people lyable to serve on jurys not to give money to the bayliffe to excuse them, and that the treasurer doe pay for the advertisement four weeks successively." The following is a table of fees ordered in 1753 for justices' clerks, in pursuance of an act of the previous session: s. d. "Swearing every high constable 1 0 Swearing every petty constable, tythingman, &c. 0 6 Every common warrant 0 6 Every warrant to search for stolen goods 1 0 Every warrant of the peace or good behaviour 2 6 Every supersedeas 2 6 Signing every pair of parish indentures 1 0 Every license to sell ale, the fee to the clerk of the peace for filing ye recognizance, stamp and paper included 5 0 Every recognizance for peace or good behaviour 2 6 Every warrant for the highways 1 0 Swearing the surveyors to their presentment and receiving it 1 0 Every hue and cry 1 0 Every warrant for appointing overseers of the poor 1 0 Signing a warrant to distrain for the poor's levy 2 0 For a warrant to disturb inmates 1 0