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Wm Humfreys
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Mayor
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whose hands and Seals are hereunto sett upon the Complaint
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is lately come into the said
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Parish endeavouring to settle more contrary to Law and
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is likely to become chargeable thereunto And whereas it
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appeareth unto us the said Justices upon the Oath of the
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said Elizabeth Parratt That her Father
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John Parratt
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about Eight years agoe rented a house of
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Forty pounds P aunn in the
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of a year and upwards and That the said Elizabeth Parratt
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hath not obtained elsewhere any legal settlement since Wee
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do therefore adjudge the said
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to be the place of his last legal Settlement
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name to require and command you the Churchwardens
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from out of your said Parish to the
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with the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
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said Parish or some or one of them, who are hereby required
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to maintain and provide for her untill they shall be
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freed from the charge thereof by due course of Law Given
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under our hands and Seals this first Day of June Anno
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Dm 1715 Anno P Regni Regis Georgy nunc magne
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Britannia Etc Prmiso
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To the churchwardens and Overseers of the
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also to the Churchwardens & Overseers of the
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poor of the
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