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The Journal of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society, JBMHS,
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Volume XVI - page 213
Extracts from "The Barbados Mercury"
November 20, 1784
Report of the holding of the court of Quarter Sessions for St. Michael at the Town Hall on 17 Nov. Present the Hon. Joseph Keeling, Hon. Benjamin Gittens, Hon. Nathaniel Weekes, George Errington, George Walrond, Henry Edey, and Thomas Pare Fowke Esqtes. Complaint that the sale of goods by slaves and others in the streets of town instead of in the public market place was a common nuisance. It was ordered that all such sales ought to restrained to the public market place called the Shambles adjoining the Old Churchyard, and that the constables do take care to enforce the observance of there orders. sd. John Thompson, Dep. Clerk of the Crown & Peace |
