1789-01-28 (static/transcriptions/1789/01/411.jpg)

1789. First Term. [Wednesday] Jan: 28.

call'd the Cock-Pitt, from the Room in the Old Palace of White Hall in which the Council or the Committee of the Privy Council sit to hear the Argument of the Council on the appeals from the Colonies, and Plantations and other Places, being a room to which the Passage to the Stairs that lead up to it, is through the room in that Palace which was used for a Cock-Pit for fighting Cocks in the Reign of Charles the Second, but has not as I have ever heard, been used for that purpose in the Reign of King
/ George