Insolvent Debtors 1745

Articles from the London Gazette

Provided by Lindsey Withers

The under-mentioned Persons claiming the Benefit of the Act lately passed for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, the following Notices have been brought to the Printer of the London Gazette, to be inserted in this Paper, and are herein inserted in Obedience to the said Act.

London Gazette - Issue 8468 published on the 17 September 1745

The following Person being a Fugitive for Debt, and beyond the Seas on or before the first of January, 1742, and having surrendred himself to the Keeper of his Majesty's Prison of the Fleet, London, hereby gives Notice, that he intends to take the Benefit of an Act of Parliament passed in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the Second, intitled, An Act for the Relief of Insolent Debtors, at the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held for the City of London, or at the Adjournment thereof, that shall happen next after thirty Days from the Publication hereof, viz.
Thomas Binford, late of Willand in the County of Devon, Serge-maker.

London Gazette - Issue 8476 published on the 15 October 1745

The following Persons being Fugitives for Debt and beyond the Seas on or before the first of January, 1742, and having surrendred themselves to the Keeper of his Majesty's Prison of the Fleet, London, hereby give Notice, that they intend to take the Benefit of an Act of Parliament passed in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the Second, intitled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, at the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held for the City of London, or at the Adjournment thereof, that shall happen next after thirty Days from the Publication hereof, viz.
David Shelley, late of the Parish of Stepney, in the County of Middlesex, Cooper and Chapman. John Reilly, late of Crediton in the County of Devon, Painter.