London

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the
City of London by Adjournment at the Guildhall Within the said City
on Tuesday the twenty Second day of January 1744 in the Eighteen
Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second King
of Great Britain Etc before Henry Marhall< no role > Esqr . Mayor of the City
of London Sir Simon Urlin< no role > Knt . Recorder of the said City Sir John
Thompson< no role > Knt Sr Robert Willimott< no role > Knt . Aldermen of the
said City and others their fellows Justices Assigned to keep the
Peace of our said Lord the King Within the said City and also to
hear & determine Diverse Felonies Tresspasses & other Misdeed
Comitted within the said City.

Whereas Elizabeth Thompson< no role > Wife of James Thompson< no role >
Who is Runaway from her by Virtue of an Order or Pass
Warrant Under the hands & Seals of Two of His Majesties
Justices of the Peace for the City of London (one being of
the Quorum) bearing Date the tenth Day of January
1744 was sent and Delivered by the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Michael in
Crooked Lane Landon unto the Churchwardens & Overseers
of the Poor of the Parish of saint Botolph Bishopgate
London Upon the Oath of the said Elizabeth Thompson< no role >
that her said Husband rented a House of Ten Pound
a Year and Upwards in the Parish of St. Botolph
Bishopsgate for one Year and other Circumstances
that the last Legal Settlement of her this Deponent is
in the said Parish of St. Botolph Bishopsgate London
Now upon hearing the Petition & Appeal of the
Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish of St. Botolph Bishopsgate agt. the said Warrant and
Judgement of the said Two Justices in the Presence and hearing
of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the
said Parish of saint Michael in Crooked Lane and
having heard what Could be Alledged on Eitherside by
the Respective Churchwardens their Council and
Witnesses in & Concernings the Premisses It is