London ss
Fran Child< no role > Mayor

Complaint being this day made unto us two
of His Majties Justices of the peace for this Citty &
Libties hereof (quor unus) by you the Church
wardens & Overseers of the poore of the Pish ye
St Alhallows Staining London That Mary
Mathews< no role > wife of John Mathews< no role > with a
young female child named Dorothy< no role > came
lately into yor said Pish & is likely to become
chargeable thereto for that the said John for some
nine since has absconded himself from his
usuall place of abode and whereas that no
settlemt of the said John appears unto us
Forasmuch as oath has been made before us
by the said Mary that the saidAnneDorothy was
borne in the Pish of St Catherine Creed
Church London wherefore wee adjudge the
said Dorothy to be settled there

Robt Geffery< no role >

These are therefore in His Majties name to
require to remove convey and pass away
the said Dorothy out of yor said Pish of
St Alhallows Stainings London to the said
Pish of St Catherines Creed Church Londn
and her there deliver to the Church Wardens
& Overseers of the Poore of the sd Pish whome
wee do hereby require to receive & proved & for
according to Law Hereof fail not and this
shall be yor warrt Given undr our hands &
seals this 4th day of October 1699

To the Churchwardens & Overseers of the poore
of the Pish of St Alhallows London & to the
Church wardens & Overseers of the poore of
the Pish of St Catherine Creed Church London
& to all whome these may concerne